Movie trivia time . .

Aug 17 2008 by Pauline Holt, Sunday Sun

V COMPOSER John Williams won an Oscar for his score for Star Wars. The music was later named by the American Film Institute as the greatest film score of all time.

V DAVID PROWSE — the 6ft 7ins real Darth Vader — had problems filming light saber scenes as he kept breaking the poles that were used as stand-ins for the weapons. In the sequels, fight co-ordinator Bob Anderson stepped into the costume to film any light saber action.

V VADER is the Dutch word for father.

V PRINCESS LEIA’S well-known hairdo in A New Hope has been dubbed the “doughnut hairstyle”, or “cinnamon buns”, by sci-fi fans. Miss Piggy once copied the style using doughnuts in a Star Wars-spoof episode of the Muppets.

V HARRISON FORD was far from George Lucas’s first choice to play Han Solo as the director had wanted completely new faces for Star Wars. Ford had already starred in Lucas’s American Graffiti.

V THE Wookiee Chewbacca was inspired by George Lucas’s beloved dog Indiana, an Alaskan malamute.

V LUCAS once said that the shape of the Millennium Falcon was based on a hamburger.

V GEORGE LUCAS based the character of Han Solo on his friend, film director Francis Ford Coppola.

V PETER MAYHEW, who played Chewbacca, worked as a hospital orderly in London before being cast as the Wookiee. He was said to have got into character by copying the mannerisms of animals he visited at the zoo.