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stormtrooper smacks his head

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.04.15

Kenny demanded to see Star Wars again today (I've created a four year year old monster).

Today as we watched, I noticed something that I've never seen in my dozen (or twenty) other viewings. At around the 1:20 mark, a tall stormtrooper smacks his head as he enters the room on the Death Star where R2D2 and C3PO are hiding.

Here's the sequence. Note the fellow on our right.

tall storm trooper bonks his head
watch out!
tall storm trooper bonks his head
contact
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recoil

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