I blame Lucas . . . sure some of PT fights are pretty cool to watch, but there no depth there.
<Ep.1 attack of the liddle midget with a tatoo>
Lucas: ohhh theres make them do some back flips cos theres nothing actually hapening in the story.
Other guy: Good Idea, if we put enough special effects in, the audience might actually mistake it for a movie rather than a toy commercial!
Sure, ANH looks wooden and kinda bad, but Empire and Jedi have definetly got the best duels.
The fight scene in A new hope between Vader and Obi wan looked crap for two reasons:
1. The duelists actors were ordiary people with few saber skills, and one of them was wearing a super heavy suit.
2. The lightsabers were made of wood, and hitting the lightsabers quickly and forcefully would cause them to break. I also think that they were rushing the film due to lack of time.
I would love to see all of the fight scenes from the original trilogy updated with special effects and played by proffessional saber duelists. I would love to see darth Vader fighting like the Jedi and Sith from the PT
I already covered this about three months ago.
In an issue of Star Wars Insider, they covered the reason why, especially in ANH (Which I rewatched, the saber battle was worse than I recall) they used two wooden props. These props had reflective parts on them that spun via a motorized machine, which was hidden in the participant's sleeves. The reflective parts spin, catching stage lights and giving the illusion of laser swords. However, as was said before, they were flimsy abd broke easily, especially because of David Prowse's great strength (He was a professional body builder). As for being ordinary with no talents, that is wrong; Alec Guinness had plenty of experience with weapons and props from his multitude of years on stage and in movies.
Originally posted by Gryn Jabar
The fights in the OT were at least semi believable, in PT they would likely result in you cutting your dick off if you tried it.
Luke upgraded his Saber
Originally built by Anakin Skywalker. Kenobi made some slight detail modifications over the years and passed it onto Luke Skywalker in his hut on Tatooine.
This was Luke's first attempt at building a lightsaber. Unfortunately it failed...badly. He abandoned the project but did learn a thing or two and used that knowledge to modify his father's lightsaber.
Darth Vader disarmed Luke along with his hand in duel and it was presumed lost in the shafts of Cloud City on Bespin. Found by the cloned Jedi Master Joruus C'baoth along with Luke's severed hand, he cloned Luke from his hand cells and gave the saber to the clone named, Luuke.
That is Brucie Skywalker, the queer third child. Obi-Wan tried to stash him in a storage bin, but he survived on iron rations and soon was adopted by a troupe of circus performers who bought Padme's yacht after her death. He had aspirations of fighting the evil empire and getting his third grade instructor in bed, but unfortunately the IMperial naval was prejudiced against a boy who painted his nails and Mr. Brown was happily married. In the end, Brucie Skywalker became a spice pirate and died in a box moving incident when a binary loadlifter popped up with a 3.
George Lucas himself said that the A New Hope fight was slow because it was an old man and a half man/machine fighting for the first time in 20 years. Wouldn't you fight a little slower after not dueling for 20 years? After rewatching ANH, I didn't think it was too bad...it could have been better, but to make it as fast as they were in the prequel trilogy just would have not been right for the situation.