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The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"


Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...

The finale of James Cameron's epic "Aliens" (1986) features the android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) getting severed in half, but still functioning enough to save Newt (Carrie Henn) from getting sucked into the vacuum of space. The internet, ever vigilant, began to take notice of this curious artifact around 2015 – a blink-and-you’ll-miss- it moment of a ghostly-robed figure with dark hair that appears behind Anakin Skywalker for only a frame or two just as he leaps from the panning droid to meet Obi-Wan on the lava skiff. In this case it wasn’t a Force ghost, but a stunt rigger who slipped into the shot during the compositing process, providing a wonderful look at the technical seams and handmade nature of the world of visual effects.

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