It says in the trivia section that you can see the double sunset of Tatooine in the canvas of a wagon as Mal rides away to go see his family (because dir. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay for Empire Strikes Back). I watched and rewatched carefully but couldn't really make anything out. Has anyone actually seen this?
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It is basically at the 48:00 mark just after Jake says, "So long, Mal".
The back of the wagon is dead center of the shot and the man and little boy are walking behind.
It's a little faint, but it IS there!
I call BS. I just watched it back frame by frame about 30 times and didn't see anything! I feel like it's like looking for bunny shapes in clouds.
shareAgreed. I just did the same thing. The screen-dissolve to the next shot begins on the canvas of the wagon in black & white. During 2 or 3 frames there's two very vague, almost-kinda-nearly-but-not-really-circular shapes partially obscured by the mountain that are slightly discoloured to the rest of the canvas scenery. However, this whole grey pattern moves along with the rest of the canvas, not the scenery, and are in no way reminiscent of moons to any noticeable degree, and are not even aligned in the same symmetry as the Tatooine moons.
Whoever inserted this dubious trivia was tripping balls hard, or smoking some awesome weed, and being overly observant, then connected dots that weren't there and had a false epiphany. There is no way Kasdan did this intentionally, if what I'm even referring to is what they're talking about. I think the only reason that what I just described is barely noticeable is because we can now view it in 1080p, which I just did, with all the clarification that lets us see more than we need to. There is no way that what I just described would be visibly noticeable on 35mm, let alone a VHS copy on an old cathode ray tube TV. Finding bunny faces in clouds is exactly what this is.
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Agreed, John_Dee, agreed. I've just watched and rewatched that sequence in 1080p myself, which should have made it easier to detect, but in fact it dissolves what seems to have been an illusion. Or fanciful thinking.
Besides, Kasdan wrote The Empire Strikes Back; the Tatooine double-sunset was in what's now called A New Hope. You'd think, if he was going to make some kind of Star Wars homage, he'd use an image from his own film in the series.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.