Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope/IMDB Corrections

## Audio/visual unsynchronised

* When Darth Vader says to Tarkin, "I told you she would never consciously betray the Rebellion," he then continues to gesture as if still talking.**This is likely done to indicate his frustration.**

## Character error

* As Luke cleans R2-D2, watch C-3PO in the background. When Luke jumps back, surprised by Princess Leia's message, C-3PO slips off the steps (but recovers in time not to ruin the shot). **This is a natural reaction to Luke jumping back.**
* When C-3PO and R2-D2 depart in the escape pod, the gunners on the Star Destroyer who spot it remark "there goes another one," as if several have been jettisoned. Back on board Leia's ship, however, the officer tells Darth Vader that only one was jettisoned. **Actually the officer says an escape pod was jettisoned during the fighting - the others could have been released before the Star Destroyer dropped to sublight speed, in order to block it's path.**
* During the first trench run, a few seconds before Gold Five is killed, Red Leader refers to him as "Gold Leader". **This may be intentional. Gold Five reports to Red Leader that Gold Squadron has lost two pilots - one of whom was Gold Leader. This may be Red Leader acknowledging that Gold Five is now the acting "Gold Leader".**
* When the rebel fighters enter the Death Star trench, they are instructed to divert power to forward shields to protect from the trench lasers. When the lasers are turned off after Vader and his escorts enter the trench, they should have diverted power to rear shields, allowing them to withstand at least some of the tie fighters' shots. **They were too busy preparing to release their torpedoes.**
* After escaping from the Death Star, Han Solo refers to the incoming TIE Fighters as 'Century Ships'. The script reveals the original line said 'Sentry Ships', which makes much more sense. **He actually says Sentry, and it just sounds like Century.**
* When Uncle Owen says to Luke that Obi-Wan "died around the same time as your father", Luke immediately says "He knew my father?". Owen didn't say anything about him knowing his father. **Probably wishful thinking on Luke's part, given how little he has been told about the past by his aunt and uncle.**
* When Darth Vader strikes down Ben Kenobi, his cloak is empty the entire take. However, his cloak doesn't fall until he gets hit with Darth's lightsaber. **Kenobi could have used the Force to achieve this.**
* Han hides himself and his passengers under the floor panels of the Millenium Falcon, easily evading the Imperial search party. He also says he frequently uses them for smuggling. Yet he is in debt to Jabba the Hutt for dumping a shipment because he feared an Imperial boarding party, rather than hiding his shipment. **The compartments could be designed to allow the contents to be dumped quickly if need be.**
* During the duel between Obi-Wan and Vader, Obi-Wan twice refers to Vader as "Darth" like that was his first name. **This is a subtle indication on Ben's part that he does not respect Vader.**
* Before Alderaan is destroyed, several Imperial officers make note that the Death Star is not yet fully operational. However, in Rogue One, the Death Star is shown to be fully operational, firing upon both Jedha City and the outpost on Scarif. In fact, when firing upon Jedha City, it is stated that only 1 reactor should be used as they don't want to destroy the entire planet yet. **The firings in Rogue One were part of the final pre operational status checks.**

## Continuity

* As Luke prepares to board his fighter prior to the climactic space battle, he brushes his hand along the underside of the wing. The markings on the wing clearly indicate it is "Red One," shown by the one red stripe. However, during the battle it is repeatedly established that Luke is in fact "Red Five," and exterior shots of the spacecraft model have five red stripes. **This is corrected in the special edition by adding the scene of Luke talking to Biggs. They start talking under red one and continue to walk to Luke's fighter. This scene was cut from the original.**
* When Vader enters Leia's cell for interrogation, a guard takes position to the right of the door. When the floating orb enters the room, suddenly it's a different actor standing there (lips and position of chin strap are different). **They probably swapped places when the torture droid entered.**
* In the original theatrical release, when the laser bolt from the Death Star is fired at Alderaan, two separate explosions take place, not one, and some rubble that is fired from the planet during the first explosion disappears when the second explosion is taking place. **The beam very likely detonated a power generator, causing the second explosion, which went on to vapourise the rubble.**
* Even after Darth Vader's TIE's laser hits R2, he appears undamaged for the rest of the Battle of Yavin. He doesn't even appear damaged until the return to the base following the Death Star's destruction. **The damage is there – it’s just not clearly visible.**
* The Jawa that stuns R2D2 puts his gun into the holster twice in subsequent shots. **It could have slid out the first time.**
* In the trash compactor, the metal bar that Leia uses to try and brace the walls is buried in debris. When she needs it moments later she is already resting her hands on it and it is easily obtainable. **She probably managed to pull it up in the interim,**
* The pitcher in Luke's hand while he is talking to Uncle Owen changes hands a few times. **He likely moved it between hands while talking.**
* Footage of R2-D2 turning his head skeptically during the Jawa auction is used twice.**He probably repeated the move.**
* There are 3 attack runs along the Death Star trench, the first was aborted without a torpedo being fired, the second run failed with the torpedo impacting on the surface which, judging by the way the Stormtroopers rocked about must have been quite some explosion. The third run sees the torpedo enter the exhaust port however the whole area should have been blown to smithereens. **The outer hull could be blast proof in that area.**
* C3PO calls R2D2 his "counterpart", implying that protocol droids were supposed to be teamed up with Astrodroids. However, C3PO was constructed by Anakin with no idea that he'd ever meet R2D2 or even work properly. **Protocol droids like C3PO are designed to translate the droid speak used by astrodroids for the supervisors.**
* Also, Anakin was somehow able to program C3PO with thousands of languages even though he was a ten-year old slave at the time. **They could have been included as standard in the brain Anakin acquired for C3PO**
* When the Millennium Falcon escapes the Death Star, Luke and Han approach the gun turrets through a ladder, like the turrets are on the top and bottom parts of the ship. But for the rest of the scene, they seem like they're on each end of a sideways tunnel. **According to the Haynes YT-1300 manual, The turrets use a variable gravity system to avoid the gunners suffering disorientation.**
* Ben Kenobi says that the Force is an Energy Field that surrounds all living things, despite learning from his Master, Qui-Gon, that the more midichlorians someone has, the more Force they have. **Being an energy field, midichlorians could operate at varying strengths, depending on the person.**

## Factual errors

* When the walls of the trash compactor converge, the level of trash should rise. But it stays low until the walls almost touch each other. **Not If there were a lot of gaps in the trash underwater, and the smaller pieces moved into those gaps.**

## Miscellaneous

* When fleeing the Death Star in the Falcon, Han and Luke climb into gun turrets. Han climbs upward to one and Luke climbs downward. When reaching their turrets, they sit down as if they were back to back on a lateral plain. This would mean Luke would be facing downwards when strapping into the chair and possibly falling out of it. From the way the guns are positioned from the inside of the gun turret, Han would only be able to hit ships directly above the Falcon and Luke would only be able to hit ships directly below the Falcon. Any TIE fighters approaching from either the sides, in front or behind the Falcon would be safe from their fire. **No they wouldn’t – the fields of fire are designed to overlap – it just isn’t apparent in the footage.**
* When the Red team is checking off, they called out their numbers as "standing by" in a completely haphazard order. They should have called out "Red 1 standing by... Red 2 standing by..." in numerical order. And it's completely unbelievable that at least once, two of them weren't trying to talk at the same time. **This could have been arranged in advance.**
* When the Millennium Falcon comes out of light-speed, he runs in to a small, short range tie-fighter. As they chase it, Luke says that it is heading to the small moon. However, in order for the object to be a moon, it would have to be in orbit of a planet, which Luke should have seen from that distance. **Not necessarily – Luke is using moon to describe the object because that is the first word that came to mind.**
* When the group comes out of light-speed and they encounter the short ranged Tie Fighter, no one bothers to go man the guns to shoot it. **That would take too long.**
* Han appears to suddenly switch from a DLT-19 Heavy Blaster Rifle to a smaller E-11 blaster rifle during the Detention Block Ambush. **The E-11 is visible in a holster on his left hip as he exits the turbolift, and a closeup shot of him as the firefight starts shows him passing the DLT-19 to Chewbacca before reaching for his holster.**

## Incorrectly regarded as goofs

* When Vader is in his TIE Fighter in the Battle of Yavin, more than once you can see the eyes and eyebrows of David Prowse through the visors on Vader's mask. **This is not an error because Darth Vader has fully functional eyes, which could understandably be revealed through his mask. In this film the lenses of Vader's mask are a deep red color which is not visible through most of the film - the lighting requirements in this scene are likely what made the lenses more transparent.**
* During the final Death Star battle, Red Leader says, "Stay there, I just lost my starboard engine" shortly before we see his fighter get hit. **He may not have lost it due to a hit; it may have had a mechanical failure that just came at a really bad time.**
* Considering what we now know from Star Wars 1-3, why doesn't Obi-Wan remember R2D2 and C3PO? We know C3PO's memory was wiped, so he wouldn't remember Obi-Wan, but Obi-Wan should remember R2D2, and vice-versa. **There's no indication that he doesn't remember R2D2, he only says that he doesn't remember "owning a droid", which is actually true to some extent.**
* After Greedo is killed in the Cantina we see him again crossing a street in the distance as Han and Luke are walking down the street. **It's probably another alien of the same species, and they just look alike.**
* C3PO has been with Princess Leia's family since her childhood according to his back story established in later movies. During the skirmish at the beginning of the movie, C3PO says to R2D2 "there will be no escape for the Princess this time." (The script reads "There'll be no escape for the Captain this time," foreshadowing the next scene where Vader strangles the Captain.) Later, C3PO sees a picture of the Princess and claims not to know who she is. **It's likely that it was programmed not to divulge any important information that may endanger the mission of the Princess, and the radio adaptation strongly implies this.**
* During the Death Star battle, you hear: "Red 6, can you see Red 5?" and a voice seems to answer. This is after Tono Porkins, who was Red 6, has been destroyed. **There is a hectic space battle going on with tons of Rebel and Imperial ships - and as a result, tons of radio calls. The response was likely an irrelevant call that just happened to get picked up at an odd moment.**
* Some viewers have noted that the Jawas' eyes are obviously just light bulbs. **In this universe it is possible that Jawas' eyes have coincidentally evolved to look like light-bulbs.**
* When first questioned by Tarkin, Princess Leia speaks using a "British" accent. She abandons this for the rest of the film. **Leia was deliberately mocking the way Tarkin speaks as a way of insulting him.**
* When Han jumps into the garbage chute it takes about 5 seconds until he lands. A simple physics calculation, distance=1/2 \* acceleration \* time-squared (for initial velocity zero), shows that this would indicate a fall of about 400 feet, which would have certainly killed them all. **This does not mean it was a sheer drop and the group probably slid down a shaft (or series of shafts) which would break their fall before ending up in the compactor room.**