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Ord-Mantell70 Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 5/4 2:58pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I've read in "George Lucas" by Jim Smith (Virgin films) about Attack of the Clones, that the grave of Shmi can be seen on Star Wars (A New Hope) outside the Lars homestead. After a couple of viewings, both the original realease and the Special Edition, I still can't find it. Has someone seen this clearly ? is that true ? Thanks. -----signature----- "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."- Leïa Organa, Journal of the Whills. "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them"
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JEDIGUNSHIP Title: C&G Game Host BC Single Pick Winner Registered: May '08	Date Posted: 5/4 5:29pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I have not seen it. -----signature----- Blue and yellow make a green lightsaber. How do you get red out of blue? Council Member in the New Jedi Trials/ Commander-in-Chief of the Rebel Alliance Addicted to Rock Band 2 and Proud of It! SWC Secret Rebel '09 Band Geek For Life!
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 5/4 6:02pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I don't remember seeing it in the 97 or 2004 SE releases of ANH, not that I've really been looking for it. However there was a newer print of the movie screened a while back (like 2005 or 2006 or something like that) where one reviewer noticed further enhancements from the 2004 release, so it's possible this person here saw that newer print or an even newer print. -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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Ord-Mantell70 Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 5/5 10:21am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	Go-Mer-Tonic posted: I don't remember seeing it in the 97 or 2004 SE releases of ANH, not that I've really been looking for it. However there was a newer print of the movie screened a while back (like 2005 or 2006 or something like that) where one reviewer noticed further enhancements from the 2004 release, so it's possible this person here saw that newer print or an even newer print. I didn't know that there existed newer prints, thanks. Anyway, this book is dated of 2003, so the author is referring either to the 1977 original release or the 1997 Special Edition; he even adds "astonishingly" about this, which indeed would be really extraordinary. It's probably just a silly rumor the author heard and mentioned without checking himself, as I've never heard of this anywhere else, or maybe he spoted something that looks like the grave but is not. I'll take a closer look at ANH shot by shot to check it out. -----signature----- "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."- Leïa Organa, Journal of the Whills. "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them"
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CaptainYossarian Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 5/5 11:31am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I don't think it is there. Likewise I've never seen it or read anything about the grave being added to Ep IV. I've seen a couple of articles detailing changes to the OT, including the one they had on sw.com, and they've never mentioned it. However, it has also been said officially (in the Insider magazine I think) that Owen removed the gravestones some time after Luke was brought to the farm. So there's definitely an implication that the grave would not be visible in ANH. I suppose the author did just listen to some questionable information, or heard or suspected that Lucas may make such an addition in a future release. -----signature----- "Orr would be crazy to fly any more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
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Ord-Mantell70 Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 5/5 3:53pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I've just checked it out carefully : there is definitely nothing that ressembles more or less the graves on the few scenes with large views of the farm, where they should be according to Episode 2. The most bewildering here is that the author refers to "Star Wars", which means the 1977 version and just seems completely silly, and mention it as "astonishing"... Really weird, as everything else stated in this book is reliable. -----signature----- "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes."- Leïa Organa, Journal of the Whills. "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them"
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GuNgAnFaN3090 Registered: Oct '08	Date Posted: 5/5 3:59pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	Yeah, I never saw it. But I never thought to look. -----signature----- QueenArdnassak is my insane e-girlfriend. Sith Warrior in the "SWC: Acolytes of Darkness" Dark Side Points: 55
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Shrapnel Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 5/7 9:31am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	It's there, but the Sandcrawler crushed it! And in anger, Shmi's ghost causes R5-D4's malfunction -----signature----- In confusion, there is opportunity
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timmoishere Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 5/10 10:56am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	Tatooine Ghost says that Owen removed Shmi's (and Cliegg's) gravestones. -----signature----- Will do moose stuff for money. Everything tastes better wrapped in bacon, especially bacon 11/20/2008: The day I married the most wonderful woman in the world.
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MasterMonkey13 Registered: Dec '08	Date Posted: 5/11 10:33am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	Haven't seen it, but I haven't really looked for it either. -----signature----- "There is no charge for awesomeness.....or attractiveness." Former Padawan of MsLanna / now I'm a Jedi Knight! Isaiah 41:10
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Darth_Nub Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 5/12 11:42pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	Bizarre claim to make, sounds like he saw something else & misinterpreted it. Is it possible that there were gravestones on the original set of the Lars homestead? Perhaps to emphasise the frontier nature of the place, where a family might have to bury their dead on their own land, like in a Western? Either that, or he's trying to create an urban myth similar to the one which says that in one shot from The Wizard Of Oz you can see the corpse of one of the Munchkin actors who committed suicide, hanging from a tree in the background. -----signature----- "First you must fill your head with wisdom. Then you can hit ice with it."
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Darth_Naveu Registered: May '09	Date Posted: 5/18 3:16pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I haven't seen it, but then again I've never looked, so.... -----signature----- "What's the difference between an AT-AT and a stormtrooper on foot?" "One's an Imperial walker, and the other's a walking Imperial!" -Jacen Solo
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DuracellEnergizer Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 5/19 9:34am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	Shrapnel posted: It's there, but the Sandcrawler crushed it! And in anger, Shmi's ghost causes R5-D4's malfunction This should be canonized! It's brilliant, and fits perfectly with what we see on screen! -----signature----- Episode I Reimagined : The Beginning http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30317264/p1/?1 ======================================= If KOTOR was any good, it'd be a book.
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eht13 Registered: Sep '07	Date Posted: 5/19 10:13am Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	DuracellEnergizer posted: Shrapnel posted: It's there, but the Sandcrawler crushed it! And in anger, Shmi's ghost causes R5-D4's malfunction This should be canonized! It's brilliant, and fits perfectly with what we see on screen! Don't know about canonized, but some EU author probably saw this and is already hard at work on a novel called "Revenge of the Chosen One's Mother."
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black_saber Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 5/19 12:33pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	I think its fair to say that Owen removed the Grave sites because He did not want luke to know about he Fathers past. I always wonder what are the other grave sites then of Shmi Skywalkers'? -----signature----- "Just when I thought I was out , they push me back in." I never liked micheal Jackson and he was always a looney.
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DuracellEnergizer Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 5/19 1:54pm Subject: Shmi Skywalker 's grave visible in A New Hope ?
	black_saber posted: I always wonder what are the other grave sites then of Shmi Skywalkers'? Cliegg's brother & first wife, I believe. -----signature----- Episode I Reimagined : The Beginning http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30317264/p1/?1 ======================================= If KOTOR was any good, it'd be a book.
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