Star Wars: The Totally Improbable Clue Behind Jabba’s Death

We can never say enough how influential the Star Wars universe is. We’ve already mentioned those around Jabba The Hutt, the monstrous giant slug we first encountered in the original trilogy. One of the most iconic characters in the saga, enslaving Princess Leia (personally) in Return of the Jedi, and finally enslaving Han Solo by imprisoning him in carbonite.

This organized crime boss is actually inspired by Hollywood legend Sidney Greenstreet, who played Senor Ferrer in Casablanca, who secretly runs the city’s black market. Even early production footage of a Star Wars film showed the character of Jabba wearing a fez, just like Sidney Greenstreet in the Michael Curtiz film.

But there is another more unexpected clue for Jabba. In Return of the Jedi, the character is strangled by Leia with the chain that was holding her prisoner. The idea of ​​the murder came to the main screenwriter of the saga, Lawrence Kasdan. But what about the method itself?

George Lucas came up with the idea of ​​making this tribute to the method used in The Godfather to eliminate Lucas Brass (who plays Lenny Montana), who ends up brutally gagged, with his tongue hanging out and his eyes rolling. Just like Jabba.

See you on the stage below…

If we compare it to Jabba’s death scene…

A tribute to the Francis Ford Coppola film that owes much to the two filmmakers’ old friendship. There’s also a nice little anecdote about it godfather Exactly, always with George Lucas.

Thanks to Coppola, who agreed to produce American Graffiti and thanks to which he won an Oscar citation for best director (out of 5 citations for the film), Lucas took over directing and editing sequences in the film. It is located halfway through the feature film, after the famous scene of Michael Corleone’s murder of Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey in the restaurant.

It’s a parallel montage in which we see a sequence of newspapers commenting on the war that is ravaging the ranks of the mafia, while we see certain mobsters going about their daily lives. The sequence is visible here.