Saga Begins facts
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"The Saga Begins," Weird Al Yankovic's parody of the song "American Pie" where he lays out the plot of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, was written almost entirely based on internet spoilers.
Both George Lucas and Don McLean were fans of Weird Al Yankovic's "The Saga Begins" (a Star Wars parody of "American Pie"). McLean said that the parody's lyrics sometimes enter his mind during live performances and a Lucasfilm representative said "You should have seen the smile on Lucas's face."
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Weird Al's "The Saga Begins," which summarizes the plot of The Phantom Menace, was written two months before the movie's release. He wrote most of the song using rumors leaked onto the Internet.
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Weird Al Yankovic's song "The Saga Begins", which is about the plot of Star Wars Episode I, was mostly composed from internet spoilers before the movies release.
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Weird Al wrote "The Saga Begins" purely from information gathered from Internet Spoilers. After seeing the movie, his song was so accurate that he only needed to make minor adjustments.
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The roll-up (or the "crawl") for star wars is an homage to the opening crawl at the beginning of each episode of the Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s and 1940s, which Star Wars creator George Lucas enjoyed as a child and which inspired Lucas to write much of the Star Wars saga.
