Clips from "Star Wars Gangsta Rap Special Edition" appear in the VH1 special When Star Wars Ruled the World in 2004. The film won the Audience Choice at the inaugural Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards in 2002, and it was broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel special on the awards.
#Knock knock lyrics movie
Editors of Time magazine listed it as the Best Online Comedy Movie of 2001. "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" is one of the most popular flash videos of all time, with more than 20 million online views. Han Solo appears in the final verse repeating "Knock him out the box, Luke, knock him out." This is an homage to the outro of the song " Children's Story" by rapper Slick Rick. Vader and Luke engage in a lightsaber duel, whereupon Vader cuts off Luke's hand, then reveals that he is his father.
During a brief intermission, he enjoys "a mighty good gin and tonic", then flies to Cloud City and confronts Darth Vader. Yoda appears next, and he and Luke trade raps, until Luke gets back in his X-wing. In the next verse, Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke to "use the Force and run.", whereupon Luke takes his X-wing fighter to Dagobah. Luke raps the second verse, with C-3PO and R2-D2 appearing in the background. The next verse begins with Luke Skywalker's at his family's moisture farm on Tatooine, with his uncle Owen Lars issuing commands at him. Images of the Death Star appear in the background, and the line is repeated by Vader, while Stormtroopers dance in the background. The music video starts out on the back of the Star Destroyer, then reveals the image of Emperor Palpatine who claims "it's not the east or the west side." Darth Vader appears as a rapper sidekick or hypeman and replies "No, it's not." This continues until the Emperor says "it's the Dark Side", at which point Vader says "You are correct." The Emperor then threatens to blow up the planets of "all you Vader haters out there."ĭarth Vader and the Emperor alternate rapping during the first verse, until Vader proclaims, "He will join us or die. The improvement in animation is analogous to Industrial Light & Magic's 1997 Special Edition film touch-ups.Įmploying some of the elements of gangsta rap and hip hop music, stances and dancing, "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" loosely mixes plotlines from the first Star Wars feature its sequel The Empire Strikes Back (and follow-up Return of the Jedi in the Special Edition), satirically recreating several of the more famous scenes and dialogue.
The audio track was not changed, but the visuals were completely redrawn, with improved color and shading and more detailed motion, all while emulating the relevant scenes in the movies more closely and adding more. After showing the finished results to Bentframe, they together formed BentTV.ĭue to the project's success, BentTV later created an improved version, referred to as the Special Edition, which debuted at the 2004 Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards. This became the first (and most widely seen) version of the video. The group billed themselves as Bentframe.Īnimator Thomas Lee discovered the rap in 2000 and used it as a basis to practice his developing Flash skills. Another thing is that at the final stanza, 感じ is written where 隠し is sung, so I treated it as a typo.The "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" started out as a song, written by Jason Brannon and Chris Crawford, with vocals by Brannon, drum machine by Crawford and Leonard, and keyboard by Brian Leonard. Translator note: I had thought that アクセル meant something like a wheel axle at first, but that doesn’t seem to show up in a dictionary, so the closest thing I can think of is “accelerator,” or “accel” for short, as I have it.