{"id":1798,"date":"2012-10-02T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:11:26","slug":"special-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/special-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about delivering the twins, but more specifically about Luke Skywalker. Padm\u00e9 delivered Luke (and Leia) on Polis Massa and then Obi-Wan delivered baby Luke to the Lars family on Tatooine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>PART ONE: POLIS MASSA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are some extra lines of dialogue in the published screenplay that take place during the twins&#8217; delivery by various characters. These are all, for the most part, three scenes intercut with Vader&#8217;s reconstruction happening on Coruscant.<\/p>\n<p>Yoda mentions a &#8220;last hope&#8221;, C-3PO discusses human reproduction, Obi-Wan coaches as best he can, and Padm\u00e9 gives Obi-Wan her japor snippet (the necklace from <em>Episode I<\/em>) which just confuses the poor Jedi.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the relevant excerpts from the published screenplay:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">MEDICAL DROID<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s carrying twins.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">YODA<br \/>\nSave them, we must.<br \/>\nThey are our last hope.<\/p>\n<p><em>The MEDICAL DROID rushes back to the operating room. ARTOO and THREEPIO watch, greatly puzzled. ARTOO BEEPS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">C-3PO<br \/>\nIt s some kind of reproductive<br \/>\nprocess, I think.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><strong>228 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The TWINS are being delivered as BAIL ORGANA, YODA, ARTOO, and THREEPIO watch. OBI-WAN is in the operating theater with PADME. He takes her hand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OBI-WAN<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t give up, Padm\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><em>PADME winces from the pain. The MEDICAL DROID is holding the BABY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MEDICAL DROID<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a boy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">PADME<br \/>\nLuke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>PADME can only offer up a faint smile. She struggles to touch the baby on the forehead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MEDICAL DROID<br \/>\n&#8230; and a girl.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">PADME<br \/>\n&#8230; Leia.<\/p>\n<p><em>R2-D2, THREEPIO and BAIL ORGANA watch from an adjoining space.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><strong>230 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>OBI WAN leans over PADME and softly speaks to her. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OBI-WAN<br \/>\nYou have twins, Padm\u00e9<br \/>\nThey need you&#8230; hang on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">PADME<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>PADME winces again and takes OBI-WAN&#8217;s hand. She is holding Anakin&#8217;s japor snippet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OBI-WAN<br \/>\nSave your energy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">PADME<br \/>\nObi-Wan&#8230; there&#8230;<br \/>\nis good in him. I know<br \/>\nthere is&#8230; still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>A last gasp, and she dies. Obi-Wan studies the necklace.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like some of those shots were converted into the dream sequences that take place earlier in the film, or at least parts of them were.<\/p>\n<p>I also remember reading (I believe it was on Starwars.com) that Padm\u00e9&#8217;s big leg coverings were added later in post-production. See the included photo for evidence. There&#8217;s also a photo of a Polis Massan that is not in the film in that specific pose and location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1198\" title=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/710-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/710-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/710-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/710-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/710-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1199\" title=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711-350x353.jpg 350w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/711-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PART TWO: TATOOINE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Way back when George Lucas was shooting <em>Episode II<\/em> in Tunisia, there was much ado over Lucas&#8217; admission that he was shooting a scene for <em>Episode\u00a0 III<\/em> while he was out there so they wouldn&#8217;t have to come back in a few years for one shot. Of course, fans put two and two together and figured this was the moment when baby Luke was handed over, but no one could ever confirm it.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, there are two images at the beginning of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0345431391\/tbonefendersstar\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Making of Revenge of the Sith<\/em><\/a> that show Obi-Wan handing the baby over to Owen Lars from that day of filming on the <em>Episode II<\/em> set. Back then, Lucas hadn&#8217;t written the screenplay so he just used Owen alone. In the end, however, we know that Owen isn&#8217;t the one who takes the baby from Obi-Wan; it&#8217;s Beru. The scene was re-shot on a greenscreen set for <em>Episode III<\/em> that was designed to mimic the Lars homestead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1197\" title=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/709-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/709-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/709-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/709-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/709-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1200\" title=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/712-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/712-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/712-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/712-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/712-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about delivering the twins, but more specifically about Luke Skywalker. Padm\u00e9 delivered Luke (and Leia) on Polis Massa and then Obi-Wan delivered baby Luke to the Lars family on Tatooine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[263,347,74,28,29,288,345,344,341,45,261,133,335,53,57,346,181],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cutscenes","category-cutscenes-rots","tag-beru-lars","tag-birth","tag-c-3po","tag-cut","tag-deleted","tag-episode-iii","tag-leia","tag-luke-skywalker","tag-medical-droid","tag-obi-wan-kenobi","tag-owen-lars","tag-padme","tag-polis-massa","tag-queen-amidala","tag-tatooine","tag-twins","tag-yoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}