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Eliezer, one’s mastery of the Force isn’t based solely on practice, but on the prevalence of Midichlorians in your blood. Due to his family ties, Luke has plenty—it’s just the application and faith that he lacks.
This scene rang very true with me and I don’t agree with your gripes. Luke has been training like mad for weeks. He’s still at the stage of balancing rocks, while his friends are in great danger and he has no way of reaching them. His frustration reaches breaking point in this scene, hence the sulk. In an ideal world Yoda would use this as a lesson for him. Time constraints and the impending doom of the universe etc mean that he can’t, hence the display of mad Force skillz.
Can’t believe I wrote all that. I’m reminded of this.
Thom, spot on. Just to elaborate somewhat, in the exposition scene where Luke is hanging from the platform on Bespin, David Prowse actually said ‘I killed your father’, so even the cast and crew on set didn’t know until the film came out. From IMDB:
Security surrounding this movie was so intense that George Lucas had regular reports about “leaks” from actors. George Lucas was so determined that the ending be kept secret that he had David Prowse (Darth Vader) say “Obi-Wan killed your father”, and dubbed it later to be “I am your father”. In fact, only six people knew about the ending: George Lucas, director Irvin Kershner, writers Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, Mark Hamill, and James Earl Jones.
[nerd] Eliezer, one’s mastery of the Force isn’t based solely on practice, but on the prevalence of Midichlorians in your blood. Due to his family ties, Luke has plenty—it’s just the application and faith that he lacks.
This scene rang very true with me and I don’t agree with your gripes. Luke has been training like mad for weeks. He’s still at the stage of balancing rocks, while his friends are in great danger and he has no way of reaching them. His frustration reaches breaking point in this scene, hence the sulk. In an ideal world Yoda would use this as a lesson for him. Time constraints and the impending doom of the universe etc mean that he can’t, hence the display of mad Force skillz.
Can’t believe I wrote all that. I’m reminded of this.
Thom, spot on. Just to elaborate somewhat, in the exposition scene where Luke is hanging from the platform on Bespin, David Prowse actually said ‘I killed your father’, so even the cast and crew on set didn’t know until the film came out. From IMDB:
Security surrounding this movie was so intense that George Lucas had regular reports about “leaks” from actors. George Lucas was so determined that the ending be kept secret that he had David Prowse (Darth Vader) say “Obi-Wan killed your father”, and dubbed it later to be “I am your father”. In fact, only six people knew about the ending: George Lucas, director Irvin Kershner, writers Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, Mark Hamill, and James Earl Jones.
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