Timeline for Why does Luke draw his blaster instead of his lightsaber to deal with an apparent threat?
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| Mar 11, 2022 at 4:48 | history | bounty ended | Bingo | ||
| Mar 6, 2022 at 22:02 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "in order to get Luke, R2, and Yoda in that image you posted, Luke has to be squatting" - actually, it looks more like he's kneeling rather than squatting. With that said, though, there seems to be ample space above Luke's head in that image; quite possibly still enough even if he were standing. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 2:27 | comment | added | Bingo | Thank you TenthJustice for your answer. Definitively Luke did pull out his lightsaber. I strongly believe that he had good skills with the lightsaber before meeting Yoda, to the extent that Vader (the former wielder) was impressed by that in Bespin. Luke could still practice the ways of the Force -even without Obi-Wan- by remembering an applying Kenobi's brief teachings. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 2:22 | vote | accept | Bingo | ||
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:57 | comment | added | Shawn V. Wilson | @MaxD Funny, he doesn't look Bluish. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 11:06 | comment | added | lalala | Apart from the visual, the light saber usually comes with sound, both which will destroy the mood of the scene. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 8:38 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 2:33 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | @MaxD the puppeteer who performed Yoda, Frank Oz, was famous for performing two blue puppets on Sesame Street, Grover and Cookie Monster. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 16:37 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | If blue was hard to see in Dagobah, why make the Force Ghosts blue? | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 14:58 | comment | added | Fattie | ... it would be absolutely impossible to "know the answer" to this question unless one literally had Mr Lucas to talk to (and, indeed, he remembered every detail of his own thinking and others during the shooting of that scene) but for me, it really makes sense to low-key the weapon since that moment is about something else. one more point, don't forget that later, Yoda 'discovers' the lightsaber and it becomes a talking point, that would be blown if the lightsaber was revealed at this point. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 14:56 | comment | added | Fattie | A superb answer. Building on the key second-last paragraph here. Don't forget, when you film a movie, shoot a scene, you "do what you want". They may have tried a few different things and "just liked" that. One aesthetic point: when someone pulls out a lightsaber, it is A BIG MOMENT, it takes over the whole scene and is really dramatic. This scene is all about the surprise of the audience seeing the amazing Yoda for the first time. (Remember that!) continuing... | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 14:43 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | I thought the blue-to-green change was because they wanted to explicitly acknowledge that he lost his original lightsaber at the end of ESB, and a simple change of the handle prop wasn't obvious enough. I find it hard to believe that a blue lightsaber would be hard to see in a blue swamp - it's pretty bright. And Jabba's skiff was mostly outdoor desert shots, I'd think either blue or green would show equally well against orange sand. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 10:58 | comment | added | MaxD | "Bluish"? Now don't tell me Yoda was supposed to be blue. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 10:46 | comment | added | Tom Goodfellow | Yoda's speech also got more yodatastic between scripting and shooting: the scripted "away with your weapon" is merely a little archaic, whereas the film film has "away put your weapon" | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 16:58 | comment | added | DavidW | Nice! I can think of another out-of-universe reason to make this switch. As I understand it, they were still using physical props for the lightsaber blades in Empire (just not reflective-coated like they were in the first movie), partly to make sure the "blade" was rotoscoped into the correct place. It would be hard for Hamill to swing a 1m dowel from his waist to in front of him without hitting something, and switching from the hilt prop to the dowel prop mid-scene would likely result in a disconcerting jump like was seen in the previous movie when Obi-wan turned his off. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 16:40 | history | answered | TenthJustice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |