[NEW Footage] Dooku VS Yoda was almost 10X CRAZIER

Dooku almost fought against Yoda with two lightsabers there's no denying that Duel of the Fates was the most Innovative and ambitious lightsaber fight that we ever got so naturally attack of the Clones needed its duel to live up to that same hype with such big shoes to fill this was going to be a big Challenge and George Lucas needed to do something that had never been done before but the original plan was just another two-on-one fight and one time I was gonna have them both fight him at the same time but that didn't really seem to work as well as me doing each one individually the idea was that by having everyone fight one on one it wouldn't be just another flashy lightsaber spectacle instead it focuses on each character's personal Journeys and how they're intertwined through the overarching story you know Nick Gillard creates a unique fighting style for each of the Jedi and and how it sort of reveals a certain element of their personality you see qui-on was like the ideal master and naturally he and Obi-Wan had the perfect master and Apprentice Bond so they were able to work as a team against Maul and from all to have any real chance of defeating them he needed to separate them this wasn't the case for Dooku because during episode 2 Obi-Wan and Anakin are far from the perfect team it's all Obi-Wan's fault he's jealous he's holding me back Obi-Wan starts telling Anakin we'll take him together but the padawan's Fatal flaw is his lack of patience and need to prove himself I'm going slowly on the left no Anakin maybe loses control a little bit and some of the darkness emerges uh whereas a Jedi normally would have to be much more in control of the situation at this point in time Obi-Wan is a bit of a better Jedi than Anakin but he's still no match for Dooku on screen is actually a few seconds of extended footage from this portion of the fight but the significance is that it's intentionally short from their first Clash it takes the Sith Lord only 33 seconds to defeat Obi-Wan this complete and utter failure of a fight allows us to see how much Obi-Wan and Anakin have grown and matured over the course of the Clone Wars when we see them finally duel Dooku again for one they're so much more like brothers in episode 3 and now they're actually a pretty good team against Dooku just like how Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon once were and on top of this we see how much more powerful Anakin has become Ian Obi-Wan both got destroyed in less than a minute last time but now it's Anakin who's actually able to best Dooku anyway let's get back to the attack of the Clones fight sure the emphasis was on the storytelling aspects but at this point there is nothing really making this fight unique so that's when George ordered Nick Gillard to come up with some choreography for the dual wielding style of jarkai Nickelodeon is the fight master brilliant man uh he choreographs the fights he's really good at what he does he brings a story arc to the fights Obi-Wan knew his Apprentice didn't stand a chance throwing Anakin that second saber was just like a Hail Mary to maybe catch Dooku off guard but let's be honest it's a pretty disappointing sequence gugu disarms the green blade in literally five seconds and I think Anakin knew he was outmatched so he tries something desperate and kills the lights I really don't know why he thought this would be an advantage but I just have to say this is easily the worst part of the entire duel this isn't edited this 10 second close-up shot of nothingness is actually in the movie I'll never understand why George loves these close-up shots during the duels instead of wide shots he did the same thing with the Palpatine and Mace Windu duel and just wasted some beautiful lightsaber choreography George can do so much right but sometimes it's just like what do you thinking man anyway here's another little bit of deleted footage from dukem and Anakin's duel again nothing major because all of Dooku's quick victories are purposeful to prove that he's a genuine threat the big surprise of attack of the Clones is the debut of Yoda's light paper skills and they needed a proven adversary who was worthy of facing off against the legendary master and I would sort of depending on that surprise I very much liked the idea from Empire Strikes Back when you first see him as he's these funny little green frog living in the swamps and then eventually you realize this is a great Jedi Master well in this sequence it's the same idea you have this funny little wizard old man who's very old and walks with a cane and then he pulls out his laser sword and he jumps around like a kid and is really powerful as excited and passionate as George was about this surprise he was also very terrified for one there was no challenge of actually creating a realistic Yoda that was entirely computer generated and the other big worry was that the tiny frog man might look goofy jumping around the six foot tall Sith Lord that's not handled just right it's gonna look silly so when they were filming The Duel Christopher Lee and his stunt double Kyle Rowling were just doing the fight against nothing all they had to go by was this Yoda model that they would run around the set with to give an idea of where they should be swinging their lightsabers in some respects it's more difficult because you don't know what is in front of you since George Lucas was so worried about how this would turn out he just decided to film a variety of different lightsaber choreography as insurance this way he could pick and choose whatever actually worked in one version Dooku begins getting overwhelmed and uses both his red and Obi-Wan's blue lightsaber to better defend against Master Yoda's acrobatic ataru style like Darth Vader Dooku is also a fallen Jedi so having him wield a blue Jedi lightsaber just like he did back when he was Yoda's Apprentice could have maybe brought more Dimension to the character a lot of people claim that Duke is really boring and came out of nowhere but ask anyone who's seen the Clone Wars or tales of the Jedi and they'll tell you how interesting and complex his character really is ultimately George Lucas liked the way the scene looked and decided it was better off without this dual wielding sequence finished it's just the very first rough yeah thing but you do get a sense of what he looks like and he's I think he's going to work out great although in the novel Labyrinth of evil it's mentioned that Count Dooku was disgusted by wielders of two lightsabers and believed that a true Jedi should be capable of surviving with just one so this dual wielding sequence would have made Dooku a bit of a hypocrite do you think George made the right call removing it regardless getting rid of this extra Palpatine versus four Jedi choreography was definitely one of George's biggest mistakes so tap right over here to watch this absolutely insane extended footage

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Length: 5min 54sec (354 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 24 2022