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fexter writes: "This article at Entertainment Weekly talks about Yoda's transformation from a puppet to a completely-CG character, and talks about the animators' horror at Lucas' transformation of Yoda: 'When Coleman and crew first saw them, they were appalled. They thought it was unseemly and undignified for Yoda to bounce through the fight like a Superball loose in a toy store.'"
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According to imdb, he did do the voice. He was only required on set as a consultant to fill in the voice of Yoda he did (before or after) in the recording studio for the benefit of the real life actors.
The imdb trivia entry is misleading... the full cast list clarifies it.
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Born 1883, Died 1969. That works out to about 86, not 67 when he died.
unless he's in a nielson family, that won't matter.
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There were actually several references to her being elected in Ep I. They never mentioned a term length, so I think a lot of people assumed it was a life-term because of the whole Queen title.
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What he lacked in mobility and strength he made up for in grace and economy of movement, and I watched as he would toss aside the students with little hand movements or slow sweeping gestures.
Not quite. What he lacked in mobility and strength, he made up for in being the venerated founder of a school in Japan, where it would be considered appalling behaviour to cast any aspersions on the Venerated One's declining powers.
The students could attack in piles, and still they would be tossed aside like leaves.
More like "the students ran at him in piles and then leapt aside like leaves as he waved a hand at them". Half sub-consciously, the students cooperated in being thrown. The idea that Ueshiba could have done anything remotely similar on a resisting body flies in the face of any non-mystical biomechanics.
It was really magical to watch such an old man possessed of such power.
Alternatively, it was really disgusting to watch an old man posessed of such vanity.
Ueshiba was a genuine fighter as a young man, but during that period, he practiced jujitsu/tai-jutsu. It was only after he founded his own school in 1942 of a state-sponsored, Shinto-flavoured dumbed down taijutsu that he started becoming a cult and staging demonstrations for gullible Westerners.
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