The Futuristic Star Wars Prop That Was Actually Just A Razor – /Film

In "The Phantom Menace," the movie about the aging space wizard disillusioned with the organized religion that forces him to serve as a glorified bodyguard until he decides to sacrifice everything to ensure a young orphan boy is indoctrinated into his cult and raised as a child soldier, we often see Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) using a small communicator device to report to his superiors. The device, no bigger than a thumb drive, was not only capable of long-distance communication with zero lag despite being used in the desert, but was even capable of performing blood tests on the fly take that, Elizabeth Holmes!

When you're crafting the next evolution in sci-fi communication, where do you look for inspiration? Some avant-garde sculpture? Perhaps the already-existing cellular phone? Not if you're George Walton Lucas Jr. Because then you'd look for something much more alien-looking, something that screamed "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" a women's razor. More specifically, the device (officially referred to as a Hush-98 comlink) comes from a resin cast of a Gillette Ladies Sensor Excel Razor, according to CBS News. That's right, the long-haired, bearded space wizard who probably hasn't shaved in years carried around a razor in his pocket at all times.

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