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'''Lightsaber combat''' describes the ] fighting styles employed by ] and ] characters in the '']'' ]. The details of the ] styles are never mentioned directly in the released '']'' films, but they are explored in novelizations as well as ] sources such as magazines, ]s, the Star Wars ] and "Visual Dictionaries." |
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==Development== |
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According to ], the various styles were devised for the prequels and intended to further ] their practitioners.<ref></ref> |
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:"I developed different styles for the characters, and gave each of them a flaw or a bonus. So with Obi, for instance, he's got a very business-like style--when he was younger he could border on the flashy and might twirl his lightsaber a bit, because he was taught by Qui-Gonn. Qui-Gonn was brash, that rubbed off on Obi and Obi then taught Anakin, who was way too old to learn anyway." "I think the style really worked well. The Jedi style of fighting is an amalgamation of all the great swordfighting styles. Melding them together is the difficult part--to move from a Kendo style to, say, Rapier requires a complete change in body and feet movement, and this must look effortless. The style moves seamlessly between the different disciplines, but remains technically correct throughout. It's unlike any other style of fighting and I think it's beautiful to watch." <ref></ref> |
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The duels were specifically choreographed to be miniature "stories." Gillard's goal in choreographing the action for ''Episode I'' was to create stunts that flow from the story. "You can't just think, 'I'm a ], I'm going to make a big stunt happen'," Gillard says. "It's all about making it tie in nicely with the film so that you don't notice the stunts." Creating narrative through physical expression, Nick wrote each fight as an individual story that supports the overall structure of the movie. "All the fights have a beginning, a middle and an end," he says. "I worked hard to write them like a story."....No two sword masters have exactly the same style, and the subtleties of distinct identities are woven into the choreography of the lightsaber battles. "It was important to me that each character in Episode I have a distinctive fighting style," he says. Some of this shading came from the classic Star Wars Trilogy."<ref></ref> |
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When interviewed for theforce.net, Gillard further notes how, at the beginning of ], he set out certain styles and particularly faults for the various saber-wielding characters. "Once you know the line of them, you know why they're going to do something."<ref></ref> |
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The ] used in the films are a combination of ], ], and various western ] styles including traditional ]. "I figured that since the Jedi had chosen a lightsaber, they'd have to be really good with it," says Gillard. "So I took the essence of all the great sword fighting techniques, from kendo through saber, épée, and foil, and flowed them together."<ref></ref> "These lightsaber fights seem to fall into two categories: On the one hand, those strongly influenced by Asian martial arts experience, typically adapting Japanese kenjutsu and kendo, the familiar Filipino Arnis/Escrima, or the stylistic ] ] clichés of non-stop twirling and obsessive spinning with extra wide exaggerated motion." <ref></ref> |
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== Changes in choreography for the prequel trilogy == |
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In writing the prequel trilogy, ] said that he wanted the lightsaber combat in the prequels to be of a more "energized" form than of that in the original trilogy. In the original movies, the only people who fought with lightsabers were Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and his protégé, Luke Skywalker. George Lucas was looking for the kind of sword-fighting that was "reminiscent of what had been done in the previous films but also something that was more energized. We'd seen old men, young boys, and characters who were half-droid, but we'd never seen a Jedi in his prime. I wanted to do that with a fight that was faster and more dynamic-and we were able to pull that off."<ref> |
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| title = Star Wars: The Making of Episode I: The Phantom Menace |
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| place=New York |
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| publisher = Ballantine Publ. Group |
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| year = 1999 |
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| edition = Hardcover |
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| isbn =0345431111}}, page 99</ref> |
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The movies' stunt coordinator, ], said that: "they chose a short-range weapon, and so they would have to be very good at it... They would have to study every great sword fighting style: kendo, iaido even including stuff like "tennis and even some tree-chopping, everything you could swing at." He explains that having chosen such a short-range weapon to use against blasters, the Jedi would have to be well skilled in all manners of fighting and defending themselves. Combining a variety of disciplines from various fencing styles to martial arts "with a touch of tennis and tree chopping," he created the distinctive 'Jedi Style' seen in the Episode I lightsaber battles." <ref> -(part of the "Making Episode I" series). </ref> |
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==Seven forms of lightsaber combat== |
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According to the Expanded Universe book by ''Star Wars: Attack of the Clones The Visual Dictionary'' by David West Reynolds, each Jedi chooses the style of ] combat that best suits him or her, noting the existence of seven forms: Shii-Cho, Makashi,Soresu, Ataru, Shien/Djem So, Niman and Juyo/Vaapad.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode II - Attack of the Clones|first=David West|last=Reynolds|isbn=0789485885|date=2002-04-23}}</ref> |
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In the extended universe of Star Wars, other forms of lightsaber combat are known to exist. Sokan was developed for the ''Hero's Guide'' Star Wars RPG source book, web supplement.<ref></ref> Jar'Kai, as seen in the film, '']'' and noted in the Expanded Universe, allows for the use of two lightsabers in each hand.<ref></ref><ref>''</ref> |
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==References== |
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