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Emperors Head Slugs????

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What the heck are you people talking about when you say in ROTJ that the emperor has head slugs. I've watched ROTJ serval times and neveer seen them. Can somoeone take a screenshot of the movie and circle the 'slugs' in red.
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Well, maybe it'll help you find them if you know that we're not talking about actual slugs. In the close-up shots of him on his thone, look for a different shade of black blob near the left (your left), I believe side of his hood. I myself can't do the screen capturing thing on this computer, so maybe someone else can help you with that.

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http://www.cinenet.net/~agrapha/StarNet/Newstuff/emperor.jpg

The spot in black is what people call the head slug. For some reason that spot between his cloak and his head is darker (and quite noticable) as compared to the rest of the image.

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The two black blobs around the outside of the emperor's eyes were g-mattes to conceal makeup defects that didn't look quite right. With the theatrical release on standard release print stock the g-mattes like all the other g-mattes blend into the surrounding black areas going un-noticed. Not untill the use of lower contrast video film stocks did the density mismatch become apparent.
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I thought it had something to do with how his eyes were colored.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Maybe my tv has always been dark, because I've never noticed it
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Neither have I. I've always heard people talk about them, buthad never actually seen them.
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I can see it in the screenshot if I focus on it, but I've never noticed it while watching the movie. This has been a momentous day: I finally learned how to microwave the hamster in Maniac Mansion (use Sid or Razor!), and I've finally seen an Imperial Head Slug.
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They've always crawled up my last nerve. Didn't they debut with the SE though? I never noticed them before the SE. The 1997 SE was far more noticible than the 2004 DVD, but it was definitely still there.
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They were there before the SE, but I wonder what makeup defects they had to conceal.
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yeah id like to see what it originally looked like also, although i read on star wars.com that they make up was barely there or something and that they improved it in rots.
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They were always there. I always thought it was something to do with the colour they superimposed over the emperor's eyes to give them that glow overlapping onto the cloak hood. As for improving the make-up for ROTS - bullshit. The make-up in ROTS is terrible. Looks like a rubber mask you buy in Toys 'R' Us. But let's not get into that. Didn't they try and work them into the continuity buy saying they were parasitic slugs that fed on the dark side energy and lived on the Emperor's face? Or was that just a joke? It's hard to tell these days, I'm not sure if stuff like that is meant to be a joke or not anymore. I'm surprised they haven't treid to say the garbage Mattes on the TIEs are deflector shields (which is actually pretty feasible)

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well the rots makeup artist said his process was better, because they used the slugs in rotj to cover up some crappy makeup. i still think the rotj makeup was incredible and didnt look like make up to me where rots makeup does
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I'm surprised they haven't treid to say the garbage Mattes on the TIEs are deflector shields (which is actually pretty feasible)
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When I was a kid, I actually thought this was the case.
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Hmm. I could never actually see the mattes around the TIE fighters until I got the DVDs...

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I've never noticed them......but now that you've brought them up, I'm sure I won't be able to take my eyes off them when I watch ROTJ from now on.......

Gee, thanks a lot guys.

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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i think they lowered the contrast on the dvds to obscure the slugs which is why vaders saber appears pink. its funny you really do see more detail on the tapes and laserdiscs