Friday, 21 August 2020

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: BIG HEROES, SMALL HEROES!


Heroes come in all ages and sizes, as young children from the film's production team (including the family of Gary Kurtz) happily volunteer to play Rebel soldiers for background scenes, primarily to make the Rebel Hangar set look bigger and longer distanced in camera, a trick used in other sci-fi films of the time like the UK-filmed Alien (linked to the Nostromo space vehicle), and Star Trek - The Motion Picture (The Enterprise's vast engine room).

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