WHY Lightsaber Duels Look So DIFFERENT In The Prequel Trilogy

George Lucas explains why lightsaber duels in the star wars prequel trilogy look so different to the lightsaber fights previously seen in the original star wars trilogy. George explains that he wanted to show the Jedi knights in their prime and at full skill during the prequels compared to what we saw in the original trilogy, namely old Jedi and part-machine sith lords with luke skywalker who was effectively an early level padawan.

I much prefer the lightsaber fights of the prequels vs the lightsaber fights of the disney sequel trilogy, even if the prequels were a bit too dance-like. what do you think?

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[jamiefookes]

The fact they had to slow down the fight between Maul, Qui-gon and Obi-wan was the best part

[XMattingly]

MAJOR props to Ewan McGregor: he really brought it to _every one_ of his lightsaber duels! 👍👍👍

[wingman-]

Ray Park killed it. It’s a shame we only got to see one movie doing his thing as Darth Maul.

[Tk]

Obi vs Maul in my opinion the best sword fight in all SW Movies.

[elimarriz]

I have to rewatch the duel of the fates, it’s so good… the choreography, the music,

[SkyzzzGaming]

That obi wan backwards block is just… perfect

[superslayerguy]

lol I like how George basically says “all the guys in the original trilogy sucked at sword fighting so I wanted some real shit for these movies”

[stratosfire]

I will always thank Ray Park for making this absolutely masterful fight between Jedi and sith

[OldMANGiles]

The last part of this clip blows my mind every time. That really is the best Star Wars lightsaber fight ever.

[Schmeppy-]

Ray park showing up to practice in what I think are pajama pants makes me respect that even more.

[SongOfStorms]

For so many years people gave Lucas grief about the prequels- not appreciating how brilliant this duel was. Actual choreography between skilled actors who practiced for months to pull this off. Compared to the Disney garbage where actors wave sticks around in front of green screens and the entire fight is composited in during post.

[Posttrip]

I give credit to Ewen for being able to keep up with Ray, who is an actual martial artist and can move even faster!

We really should have been treated to seeing him again in the original idea for Ep.7 where Maul returns as the prime menace as ruler of the crime syndicates. Kennedy nixed all of that!

[palakbapakmu]

That obiwan Double block still stuck in my head till now 😂😂

[danielhall]

That double saber that maul has the way he was countering both of them was wild 🤪 at one point im like Maul is just showing off at this point he didn’t have to take both these guys on .

[AcidAroma]

Fun fact: The actors became so good at the sword fighting techniques they literally had to slow down the camera for the actual film during the Duel of the Fates because they moved too fast and were so coordinated it was perfect… Remember when people use to hate on the Prequels? Now they seem like the best lol

[michaelcross]

Meanwhile the sequels:
Swinging like a baseball bat

[BrandonE-rikm]

The setup was awesome too. No music, the red gates, Quigon losing.. all leading up to Obi vs Maul

[kopacreations]

Man that last clash with o I wan and maul is just the best when he blocks both stacks that maul throws to his back then the front! 🥰

[yosefffoh]

I absolutely LOVE Qui Gon. We all do of course. However, the way Obi Wan just bolts out towards Maul with the first few clashes gives me chills every time! I can just hear him thinking "Yeah. You definitely f***ed up now..." after Maul force ghosted Qui Gon

[jordanglasper]

The reason why I love Lightsaber so much is because they look like magic swords for one. And two it was the original trilogy that got me addicted to Star Wars. But the prequel trilogy just ignited my love for it on an even higher level. To hear Lightsaber hum to life, not only that when they clash it’s almost as if the energy of light versus dark The pure essence of good versus evil when the Lightsaber clash to me, it’s almost as if that’s their energy, that’s their emotion that is their essence.

It’s my sound weird to a lot of you or all of you. But that’s genuinely how I feel like when I hear each clash it’s not the same. It’s a different pitch a different hum, a different life energy that the Lightsaber give off. When I was a child. I genuinely thought that The red light sabers when I called them dark savers, funny enough, were fueled by hatred and that each time the red blade clash with either a blue blade or a green blade that was, you know the red blades, hateful energy clash, and can’t wait to break the good blade or the positive blade or the blue blade or the green blade. And I felt like the Jedi blade was pure positive emotionso of course it would clash with the hatred which is the color red. The imagination of a child, but still how that to this day that concept that idea exist within me because every time I hear Lightsaber clash my imagination from my childhood reemerges.