Meh...the Star Wars light saber fights are always a bit silly...I mean, it's for entertainment, but when you look at it too closely, your suspention of disbelief gets a good wacking...here's exhibit A: http://youtu.be/J0mUVY9fLlw
[–] ChillyHellion [S] ago
I usually cut movies some slack on this because it's supposed to look nice, not necessarily real. A real sword fight (lightsaber fight?) would probably be over much more quickly. You do have a point about the realism though.
[–] Arnex 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Why is this the exception and not the rule?
[–] ChillyHellion [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
It's common to do stunts and action sequences at reduced speed and then speed them up on film after the fact. I can only speculate the reasons why, but it would make sense to add precision, prevent mistakes, and prevent injury during fight scenes. Chances are whenever you watch a fight scene it's been sped up at least a little bit. I guess in this case the actors had practiced this fight for so long that they were comfortable doing it at a fast pace. It's pretty impressive because parts of the fight itself are rather quick. I can't imagine doing the same performance without error.
Edit: Bruce Lee was famous for this as well. In fact, he was so fast in fact that instead of speeding up his footage, they had to slow it down. Quote from this website: