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It’s interesting because Star Wars saber battles were very clearly inspired by Samurai duels, yet if you asked me which one looks like a Jedi holding a lightsaber I would point to all the pictures of the European swordsman.
Inspired doesn't mean much. "Jedi" fighting is useless and made to look cool in extended duels. No actual techniques from historical martial arts are being used
in the original films the fights are very short.
As they should be. Most fights between trained sword fighters were over within seconds.
My favortite duel scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KWTEhyVX8That looks like a good movie. I've never heard of it before. Harvey Keitel isn't really in any bad movies.
It's Ridley Scott's first big movie.
The best part is the ridiculous explanations using the force and whatever else as to why actually it all makes perfect sense.
I mean, there needs to be an explanation in universe, but out of universe - it looks cool to an average dude. It's just HEMA practicioners that cringe internally when seeing it
Yeah, I just fine the explanations funny because they so obviously came after making the moves look the way they look.
THEY'RE THE SAME THING
Might be because the fights choreographer for the original Star wars films was an Olympic Fencer so from a western tradition