Star Wars Films Are Secretly Forbidden From Exhibiting These 5 Objects

A very long time in the past, in a galaxy far, distant… there was no paper. There have been droids, spaceships with hyperdrives and moon-sized area stations geared up with planet destroying lasers, however no paper. Not even parchment.

If somebody requested you to outline the “Star Wars” aesthetic, how would you reply? The films, live-action exhibits, and animated collection all possess a particular feel and look, however are you able to boil it right down to a sentence or two? Maybe you would say it is a combination of junk and modern, however that is too basic. There’s one thing important lacking. And that important component could also be an ineffable high quality. Perhaps you simply know “Star Wars” once you see it, and that is that!

Or possibly you would describe that singular aesthetic by what “Star Wars” would not have.

That is partly how “Andor” creator Tony Gilroy (who provides an attractive glimpse into the collection’ second season in the newest challenge of Empire) has engaged with the universe since finishing “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” for Lucasfilm and director Gareth Edwards. When he took on the movie concerning the insurgent’s heisting of the unique Demise Star’s plans, he discovered that the notes he obtained from the gatekeepers at Lucasfilm have been typically about objects that didn’t exist within the ongoing saga.

As Gilroy advised Le Monde in 2022, “I bear in mind we have been taking pictures a scene and somebody was cleansing a knife. You’ll be able to’t have a knife, there aren’t any knives in Star Wars, no wheels, no paper.” Who’s issuing these directives? “There is a man, Pablo Hidalgo, who says what’s allowable,” Gilroy defined. “He has a really troublesome job as a result of he has to recollect all the things [that ever happened in the universe].”

So, what objects do we all know for sure are verboten in “Star Wars?” Here is what’s on the do-not-depict listing in response to accessible reporting (with just a few potential exceptions).

There should be restrooms within the “Star Wars” universe, however when you occur to make use of 1 don’t anticipate to straighten up your look within the mirror earlier than rejoining the skin world. In response to Gilroy, you will should catch your reflection on one thing else, or just study from an early age find out how to groom your self with out one.

In case you’re on the lookout for an exception, there’s that terrific scene in “Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Final Jedi,” the place Rey (Daisy Ridley) sees infinite reflections of herself within the midst of her Jedi coaching. It is an particularly trippy sequence for the somewhat conventional “Star Wars,” so you need to surprise if there was some dialogue as to the kosherness of those naturally showing mirrors. Since they weren’t virtually hung, we’ll say that they do not break the “Star Wars” prohibition of mirrors.

In a collection perpetually (tiresomely at this level) hung up on birthright, it is shocking that paper is not allowed as a result of how else are you going to maintain monitor of delivery certificates and the like? We all know from one of many very first scenes in “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope” that messages may be imparted through holograms, so possibly everybody’s strolling round with holo-certificates and licenses. We do not see a lot of them, and I am not essentially complaining concerning the lack of trivialities on this regard. Maybe we will simply assume that there is stuff written down someplace, and Lucasfilm merely would not care to interrupt its narrative stride to carry on a close-up of an edict or passport. Or not! One place the place “Star Wars” may’ve simply wedged in some paperwork was throughout Han Solo’s try and bypass safety to board a transport in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” As a substitute, he is capable of get by on his personal recognizance and a bribe — and we all know there is not any paper cash in “Star Wars.” You are welcome, bushes of the galaxy.

In a galaxy full of spaceships and hovering speeders, why would anybody have use for a wheel? Essentially the most primitive automobiles we see (e.g. the Jawas’ sandcrawler) have tank treads, which make much more sense within the desert than wheels (although the spice harvesters in David Lynch’s “Dune” come geared up with them).

In case you’re on the lookout for a wheel rule breaker within the “Star Struggle” universe, you want look no additional than D-0 in “Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker” (although I perceive when you’re not wanting to dig again into that trash compactor of a movement image). That is the previous, beat-up droid found by BB-8, and he has, by his personal declaration, a “squeaky wheel.” Why this nothing of a personality was deemed important sufficient to violate the wheel prohibition is a thriller. In case you’re about to swing in right here to indignantly declare that R2-D2 has wheels, I am sorry, however he has tracks below his toes. D-0 is, to the perfect of my information, the one wheeled something within the “Star Wars” galaxy.

There’s a complete lotta Mandela Impact occurring with knives in “Star Wars.” Clearly, Boba Fett has knives, proper? He would not. What concerning the beeping Swiss Military knife that’s R2-D2? Nope. At any time when there are eating scenes in “Star Wars” (and there aren’t many), you will not see a single knife getting used. There are merely different methods to chop objects in these motion pictures and exhibits, and I believe a minor flourish like this goes a great distance towards making “Star Wars” really feel otherworldly. If somebody have been to whip out a knife in, say, “The Mandalorian,” it will be jarring.

Ever discover that you have by no means seen a door swing open in “Star Wars?” That is as a result of, in response to a 2023 article by The Hollywood Reporter, all of them slide a method or one other (left to proper, up and down, and even diagonally). One one that may detest this little bit of stylistic gatekeeping is Harrison Ford, whose leg was crushed by a hydraulic door whereas taking pictures “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Drive Awakens” (within the ensuing lawsuit, which Ford gained, the door was described as a “blunt guillotine”). Though Lucasfilm needed to shell out $2 million to compensate Mr. Ford for the painful mishap, “Star Wars” doorways nonetheless be slidin’!