Originally posted by Lord Knightfa11
like when a cop yells at you to freeze, he doesnt mean to turn into a block of ice, he means hold still...
Except if you are The Mask. 😉
The only thing I can imagine is that Lucas liked the shot of four Jedi with ignited lightsabres so he put it in and than realised that they couldn't do a fight that way.
Wasn't it on the dvd that it is said that they suddently wouldn't do it with stuntmen and that that old guy needed to learn it all really quickly?