…or say that “he’s being disarming”
Both quotes that the James Bond franchise used, by the way.
What was it Arnold said when he removed both od Richter’s (Michael Ironside’s) arms in Total Recall?
??I thought the Bond movies only had punch lines / one liners if they were incredibly sexist??
Let me guess. It was in Live and let die?
That was one of my suggestions way up there in my first post:
If you cut a person’s hand off, then the other one is a Hand Solo.
That’s an even worse joke than the ones I made so far. In fact, you may be the hands down winner of this bad puns competition.
When a Jedi knight is knighted, the royal personage doing the dubbing has to be veeeeery careful.
Droids do feel pain, though. Remember the droid torture chamber in Jabba’s palace? Poor gonk droid.
Also, didn’t Lucas remove the blood from Walrus-Man’s severed arm for the DVD of the SE?
He didn’t, did he?
But that “droid torture” scene was just silly.
Ever read Book of the Five Rings? Seems like half the sword techniques are about chopping people’s hands off. As the kendo people above noted, hand-chopping was apparently a widely practiced samurai tactic.
How many men have had to tell their woman, “Negative. Negative! It didn’t go in. It just impacted on the surface”?
Well, we’ve all been there, haven’t we? :dubious:
We just don’t want to talk about it. :eek:
And he did it single-handedly.
“Stay on target…”
Proving that there’s a website for everything in the entire world: The Chopped-Off Hands Of Star Wars!
Seen it, but only after I noticed george’s hand chop fetish by myself.
If you want an in-story explanation, hands are typically the closest target available for striking. That allows you the most distance from your opponent while still disabling him.
Consider Obi-wan’s first behanding in Ep4. He didn’t necessarily want to kill the guy with a blaster, just end the threat. So he took the gun and the arm holding it.
What about Luke in the cave with the Wampa? That’s one big arm - 6 ft long or longer? Wouldn’t do much good to go for the body shot and get clawed in the process.
Same thing with Dooku and Annikan (I can never remember how that is spelled). Dooku didn’t want to kill him - probably had orders not to. But had to remove the threat. Ergo, hand slash.
Darth on Luke - Darth doesn’t want Luke dead at that time, just get his attention. Ergo, disarm.
Luke on Darth - Luke is pissed and Darth keeps blocking his blows, so get rid of that damn sword then he can get the good blow in. “Oh, what am I doing?”
Obi-wan on General Grievous (the droid thingy with 4 spinning lightsabers) - can’t get through to the body, so remove some of the swords.
And really, does it count when Obi-wan slashes that beast in the arena? I mean, he slashes a leg/arm/appendage yes, but that thing is huge and it allows him to get close enough for the death blow. It’s just sensible fighting - weaken/disarm and then press the advantage.
Guess that leaves anakin empty handed.
Yes, there were several times that he needed someone to lend him a hand.
You’re obviously an old hand at this.
(Hey, someone was gonna say it…)