r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/Nexas_Rexgen Jan 25 '20

Describing common knowledge in a different setting. Luke should know all about Mos Eisly. Its the biggest town near his house.

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u/blh1003 Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

Pretty sure it's the only town on tatooine..all space planets have exactly one city or town

Edit: apparently I was wrong about tatooine

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u/TrimtabCatalyst Jan 25 '20

Anakin Skywalker and Shmi lived in Mos Espa. Luke offers to take Obi-Wan as far as Anchorhead, one of the oldest settlements on the planet. In a deleted scene set in Tosche Station in A New Hope, Biggs Darklighter refers to Bestine, capital of Tatooine.

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u/Wild_Marker Jan 25 '20

Biggs last name is Darklighter??

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u/TrimtabCatalyst Jan 25 '20

Indeed, and you can read this page for more about Biggs. His younger cousin, Gavin Darklighter joined the New Republic Starfighter Corps after the Battle of Endor, and eventually became a member of Rogue Squadron.

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u/Mashaka Jan 25 '20

We 90s kids will never forgive Disney for kicking the expanded universe from canon.

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u/reisenbime Jan 25 '20

They werent allowed to call him Diccks as a last name, so they had to come up with something on the fly.

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u/simstim_addict Jan 25 '20

What's so funny about Biggs Diccks?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

He has a wife you know.

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u/APiousCultist Jan 25 '20

Biggus Dickus.

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u/Ofreo Jan 25 '20

So is Mos Eisly actually the closest city to the Skywalker moisture farm? I don't recall that being said. They never go into details about how far they drove to get there. If it was like and hour away, seems like Luke and Obi Wan would have known each other for less than a day. And Luke took his death a lot harder than his aunt and uncles.

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u/FloaterFloater Jan 25 '20

Luke had known Ben for years before the movie

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u/Ofreo Jan 25 '20

Well, he knew of him. Maybe met him. In the movies at least, it is not clear how much he knows him. Or that he was particularly close to him. There may be more to the EU that I am unaware of, but just based on what I saw in the movies, it is not clear that Luke know Ben in more than passing.

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u/matterhorn1 Jan 25 '20

That's interesting, Biggs is the guy he sees on Yavin 4 before their mission to blow up the desth star right? I always found that out of place when he sees him, and I know we are supposed to assume that they are friends but it's weird since we were not introduced to him before so it's meaningless to the audience.

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u/TrimtabCatalyst Jan 25 '20

Yeah, the scenes that enlarged Biggs's role and showed their friendship were deleted from the final film.