![]() Officially titled Chalmun’s Spaceport Cantina, and known to many as the Mos Eisley Cantina, the outside was filmed on location in Tunisia while the interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage in London and Hollywood.Īs we first enter the Cantina, the triangle headed Hem Dazon appears. Other characters, though, have quite the back story! So I broke out a book I had as a kid called “The Star Wars Essential Guide to Characters,” and dove deep into the Star Wars Wiki pages and Google and compiled a brief background on the characters that you’ve probably seen many times but never gave any thought. Most of them have no given background or name other than “SpaceMan #1” or “Local Ugly Man #3.” All-in-all, the online consensus is that there are somewhere between 75 to 90 characters inside the bar. What I thought would be fun to do today for May the fourth, would be to collect a little backstory and detail on the many different characters that appear briefly in the Cantina. You could get yourself into a multi-day long rabbit hole on official backstory about Tatooine and Mos Eisley. Part of what makes Star Wars so much fun is just how expansive the Universe is. In a line I often use to describe the employee lounge at work, Ben warns Luke that Mos Eisely is “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.” The two arrive at the local watering hole, The Mos Eisley Cantina, where creatures from all over come for a drink, socializing, and shady business dealings. The two head, along with droids C3PO and R2D2 head to a bustling spaceport on Luke’s home planet of Tatooine called Mos Eisley. The scene surrounding the Mos Eisley Cantina is one of the most memorable of the film, perhaps even the series, and contains a song that will stick in your head for days.īen Kenobi (Obi-Wan) and Luke Skywalker arrive at the Cantina in search of a pilot and a spacecraft to help them get quickly and discreetly to deliver a recording from Princess Leia to Alderaan. Released in 1977, this first film in the Star Wars, and one particular 6-minute scene, is known to even those who don’t consider themselves fans of Star Wars. My favorite of the nine films, more if you include offshoots and television shows, is Episode IV: A New Hope. Even the most casual Star Wars fans will likely pop in a DVD or new this year you can fire up Disney+ and sit down and watch one (or all!) of the films in this epic series. ![]() Every year on May the fourth, fans of the Star Wars series celebrate the movies that entertain so many of us. ![]()
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