How Yoda Became an Action Star 769
fexter writes: "This article at Entertainment Weekly talks about Yoda's transformation from a puppet to a completely-CG character, and talks about the animators' horror at Lucas' transformation of Yoda: 'When Coleman and crew first saw them, they were appalled. They thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store.'"
Re:Fight Scene (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Fight Scene (Score:3, Informative)
The imdb trivia entry is misleading... the full cast list clarifies it.
Re:Sadly Undignified (Score:1, Informative)
Born 1883, Died 1969. That works out to about 86, not 67 when he died.
We HAVE seen Jedi use the force to move before. (Score:3, Informative)
We saw it again in the generator room on Naboo when Qui-Gon, Darth Maul, and Obi-Wan were jumping back and forth across the various walkways. Again, Ep1.
We saw it, yet again, in Ep1 in the finishing move Obi-Wan used on Darth Maul. Or do you think ANYONE has the upper body strength to pull themselves up 6-8 feet in the air and flip completely over someone using only their arms?
In Episode 2, we see it when Anakin blocked the finishing blow Dooku was about to give Obi-Wan.
Re:Fight Scene (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I believe its called democratic republic... (Score:2, Informative)
Ueshiba's undignified demonstrations (Score:4, Informative)
What he lacked in mobility and strength he made up for in grace and economy of movement, and I watched as he would toss aside the students with little hand movements or slow sweeping gestures.
Not quite. What he lacked in mobility and strength, he made up for in being the venerated founder of a school in Japan, where it would be considered appalling behaviour to cast any aspersions on the Venerated One's declining powers.
The students could attack in piles, and still they would be tossed aside like leaves.
More like "the students ran at him in piles and then leapt aside like leaves as he waved a hand at them". Half sub-consciously, the students cooperated in being thrown. The idea that Ueshiba could have done anything remotely similar on a resisting body flies in the face of any non-mystical biomechanics.
It was really magical to watch such an old man possessed of such power.
Alternatively, it was really disgusting to watch an old man posessed of such vanity.
Ueshiba was a genuine fighter as a young man, but during that period, he practiced jujitsu/tai-jutsu. It was only after he founded his own school in 1942 of a state-sponsored, Shinto-flavoured dumbed down taijutsu that he started becoming a cult and staging demonstrations for gullible Westerners.