10 Disturbing Movie Moments You Never Noticed

9. The Shadow Of Jango Fett's Decapitated Head - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

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In a not dissimilar vein, Jango Fett's (Temuera Morrison) death scene in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones is pretty damn disturbing for a film marketed for children.

During the Battle of Geonosis, Jango battles Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) and is swiftly decapitated by a sleek swish of the Jedi Master's laser sword. 

George Lucas takes the scene about as far as you possibly can with a PG rating, showing Jango's helmeted head fly clean off his formerly mortal shoulders, before young Boba Fett (Daniel Logan) picks up said helmet, apparently cradling his father's own cleaved noggin.

But take a closer look at the scene and you'll notice that when we see Jango's helmet fly through the air, there are two shadows - one for the helmet, and one for his severed head, which appears to soar off somewhere into the distance, mercifully away from Boba's immediate vicinity.

While it spares Boba the trauma of picking up his dad's decapitated head, that shadow still makes a pretty damn grim implication of its own, that Jango's head got violently launched half-way across the battlefield.

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