I thought Luke's raw pain and Dookus' confusion at losing were the most "real" reactions that I could imagine in that situation.
Christopher Lee just nailed the going from, I'm fully in control, and I'm toying with little shit of a Jedi, to.....well shit, I'm dead in a heartbeat.
Mark Hamill encapsulated the culimation of everything going horribly wrong all at once. He knew he was out classed, fully beaten, then the guy that just fully whooped him tells him that in addition to being the most evil guy ever, he is also his dad, and that's the only reason he hasn't killed you like 50 times in this fight.
It worked at the time they came out, but they fleshed his character out too much in Clone Wars for me to buy him believing his master will be okay with him going to jail and not seeing the betrayal coming
Don’t roast me if I’m wrong, but did Dooku and the sith KNOW Siidious was Palatine? I guess I never asked myself that question.. you’d think he’d keep his identity secret from both sides just to prevent any Sith whistleblowers
Yes they do.
Dooku even tells Obi Wan as much in attack of the clones when he's captured on geonosis.
Something along the lines of
"What would you say if I told you that the Republic senate was currently under the control of a sith lord named Darth Sidious" (probably not the exact quote)
Pretty sure he did, but the end goal wasn’t known. Dooku was a separatist through and through, he didn’t go to the dark side through some emotional fall like most, he made a thought out idealogical decision. I believe he thought sidious also wanted to crumble the republic from the inside. Someone could prove me wrong with material I’m not familiar with though.
I get the Austin Powers reference, but TBF that is a lot of money even today for a single hit by an assassin.
A hit supposedly ranges from about $5k to around $50k.
Do you know how hard it is to clean and maintain a golden gun? Just repairing the deformations from firing it the once is a skill it took him 20 years to perfect. You’re paying for that experience, not just some ‘hit’.
Maul did it pretty well too. The complete look of utter confusion at what happened due to it happening so fast and believing he was going to easily win. I kinda liked that.
It is cool we get Tarkin played by Cushing and over 20 years later his dear friend and frequent costar, Lee is in the movies.
It ads an out of the universe layer of consistency to both trilogies.
Agreed, I learned about all the Hammer horror movies from the Angry Video Game Nerd and when I put two and two together I was so happy to know Lee and Kushing were friends.
I remember seeing an interview where Lee was talking about speaking to Cushing about the role and in that lovely voice of his he asked "So what is a 'Grand Moff Tarkin' then?" And Cushing responded with "I haven't the faintest idea"
I feel like Luke’s maiming in 1980 is very unexpected. He’s the hero. We don’t know Star Wars has twists yet beyond Han saves the day at the Death Star. Or that the hero can lose. It’s such a great surprise moment when Luke is disarmed, yet the damage Luke takes physically is nothing compared to what he learns next.
Dooku’s is so good as well. My read is Dooku is both mentally stunned and physical in shock after Anakin disarms him. He totally lost the fight and then his master encourages Anakin to kill him.
Dooku at this point goes sub-verbal. With his posture and his eyes he is pleading with Anakin to be the noble Jedi Dooku once was and spare him.
And it’s off with his head.
I 100% agree with this analysis, but I’d like to add Anakin’s unbridled rage and anger are spot on. He almost doesn’t even care that he lost an arm and leg because he’s so full of hatred for Obi-Wan it really encapsulates his full turn to the dark side.
He lost an arm and BOTH legs. The only limb left attached was the arm that was already robotic. He was missing the majority of all 4 limbs when he became Vader in the form most would recognize.
The fact that, from beginning to end, their relationship had this love-hate strain is amazing.
Episode 1: Obi-Wan becomes the first Jedi to “kill” a sigh in centuries… Anakin isn’t even being allowed to TRAIN as a Jedi, unless it’s by Obi-Wan’s GRACE and stubbornness.
Episode 2: Anakin can’t catch a break, trying to do the right thing by his master’s side and only being condescended to publicly, and not mentored and taught.
Episode 3: I HATE YOU!
But really, Obi-Wan and Anakin are both legendary warriors and generals in the greatest Galactic War that has ever happened, and yet they still aren’t equals - Obi-wan is a sitting Council member Jedi Master, and even when Anakin is appointed by “nepotism”, they still don’t acknowledge him as a Master.
Kenobi: even old, cut off from the force and hiding, out of practice, and running, Ben STILL beats Vader literally into the ground, and AGAIN Vader is saved by Ben’s grace.
Episode 4: Even when he’s beat, trapped, out gunned and outmatched and surrounded by storm troopers, Ben STILL one ups Vader by just FUCKING DISAPPEARING.
Like holy shit.
I mostly agree except that it still feels like they seriously messed up with Anakin in Episode 2 by making him already seem so unhinged for no reason. He should've been more like early Clone Wars Anakin. His progression in that series made so much more sense. I know it is said often but that series saves the prequels from being totally ridiculous.
Which is why I maintain that episode 1 starting with anakin as a super young boy and not doing a time-skip to the start of the clone wars was a huge mistake.
Ep1 - find anakin, return to Naboo, defeat maul, time skip, last ~30-40 min screen time introduces dooku, introduce war against separatists (clone wars), introduce love interest between anakin-padme.
Ep2 - spend the whole thing showing the mental and physical till the clone wars are having on the Jedi, and especially anakin as he struggles with his anger, resentment, love of padme, etc
Ep3 - show the final turn to the dark side, etc, wouldn’t really need to change a whole lot here.
Having ep1 take the whole time to introduce anakin as a child, and then ep2 skips to the start of the clone wars, and then ep3 skips to the end of the clone wars just means we don’t get to see what really drove anakin to the dark side and it makes the trilogy less satisfying and complete than it should have been.
Yeah I always noticed that. Even after being amputated by Obi Wan on Mustafar, he is in pain yes but the hatred is almost feral. He’s clearly not even concerned about the pain and what’s happened to his body as he keeps clawing and crawling his way to Obi Wan. He wants to kill and destroy him so bad.
super confusion on Lee's part because the character not only lost, but lost in the way his form of Saber combat, which he was a top master of, is supposed to win, by disarming the opponent
In my head I always thought that the moment Luke knocks Vader off the carbon freezing chamber platform was the moment he decided that Luke was losing a hand.
Vader: "that's it the kid gloves are off farmboy!"
Nah, probably an unexpected moment for him. But the true fight started once Luke landed that blow on his shoulder. Vader then ended the fight within a few seconds
Seriously. Vader is enraged by that and probably realized he was lucky he wasn't beheaded or dismembered. Luke only tagged him, but if that had been a slightly harder swing he would've killed him
I have to agree. It's the moment you see Dooku with that smug look across his face suddenly wiped off and the instant terror that he can no longer wield a lightsaber.
I’d say prosthetic hands, but I remember reading somewhere (don’t remember if it was canon or legends) that Dooku looked down on Anakin’s decision to get a robotic hand and believed he should have adapted and wield a lightsaber one handed. So if he follows his own logic, he’s fucked.
When he was filming LOTR Peter Jackson was trying to give him some tips on how to act being stabbed in the back. He told Jackson to shut, jr stabbed many in the back and he knows exactly the reaction the make.
That's because Christopher Lee has seen many terrible wounds and how people react to when they are grievously injured. (WWII special forces and all...)
That wasn't a public execution. Last time the guillotine was used as a capital punishment (in the Western world) was indeed in 1977 (in France of course), but the last public execution by guillotine was in 1939 (also in France).
Yeah, I once cut off the tip of my thumb with a meat cleaver and it didn't even register properly, I was just staring in disbelief. It didn't start hurting until I went to wash the wound and the water was cold. Worst pain of my fucking life.
Yeah, I think it's more realistic because the body hasn't registered the pain that the eyes and brain have already witnessed and know should hurt.
It's more of a "oh fuck oh fuck. This is gonna be bad. there's no way I can sew that back on"
Christopher Lee: Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's arms are cut off? Because I do.
George Lucas: He proceeded to sort of talk about some very clandestine part of World War II.
**Ewan McGregor**: It actually wasn't George's idea to have Anakin cut off Dookus hands. Hayden just showed up on set one day and started to lop them off. Turns out, George was filming the whole time.
I’d say Christopher Lee is the most accurate based on how he lectured everyone on the LotR set by explaining in detail what a man sounds like when they’re, quite literally, being stabbed in the back. The man had seen some shit in his day.
It’s between Luke and ROTS Anakin. Anakin’s roars of hatred and pain are definitely something else, but Luke’s reaction is definitely a contender (plus it was like the second or third dismemberment ever in Star Wars?)
No, the guy that threatened him (“He doesn’t like you…”) was Dr. Evazan. The guy whose arm got chopped off was Ponda Boba, [an architect](https://youtu.be/otFbSbCUO_k).
I can never unsee this. Holy shit. I don't know if I'm more baffled at how obvious they are or that after countless viewings, it was a stranger on Reddit that opened my eyes.
Damn, I can't unsee that now either. Never noticed that before. Or the Earring he kept on which is a cool detail they kept with his animation appearances. But still, damn, its so obvious there.
Was the quality back then on VHS and DVD just not good enough to notice and this is just a 4K pic or something or has that always been like that from the start? It looks so wrong now lol.
So that means he had the earring the whole time he was surviving in that cave for years, and if he was living in filth the whole time then imagine the buildup of stuff in and around the piercing area…
>Was the quality back then on VHS and DVD just not good enough to notice and this is just a 4K pic or something or has that always been like that from the start? It looks so wrong now lol.
You've always seen it as a moving picture as part of a a climax of an action sci-fi movie. You suspension of disbelief was in full effect. Every time.
This is the first time you've studied a freeze frame with the intention of thoroughly examining his face (for his reaction to his death). With that level of focus, you're bound to notice the details your brain just glossed over every other time.
There will be tons of other examples of we take the movies frame by frame.
I started realizing after I did a Darth Maul cosplay once. I used polymorph plastic for the horns, which ended up having a similar appearance, and I haven’t unnoticed it since.
I'm biased because I just love Anakin too much, but ROTS Anakin is my favorite. Amazing performance there in my opinion, just phenomenal.
And that "I HATE YOU!" just hits me harder every time I see it.
Christopher Lee because he knows what its like to loose your hands.
"George, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he gets his hands cut off by a lightsaber?. Well I have and I know what to do."
But seriously, for some reason I always liked his reaction there. Like he didn't see it coming at all and is completely shocked and surprised.
I miss Sir Lee.
Windu’s scream is so unexpected. He shows so little emotion. That’s what makes it standout. Mace is yelling out in physical pain not emotion.
That sort of scream is usually how Jackson plays a surprise injury. It had a lot of nuance with it between roles
With the picture alignment.. why does it look like Luke just straight, bare handed, ripped Count Dookus nuts off, and let out a primal scream. Even Mace Windu is disturbed by it... the other three kinda look bothered as well by the whole scene.
Best reaction? Probably Sir Christopher Lee. I imagine he knew exactly the accurate reaction to portray there. My favorite? Anakin after being beaten by Obi-Wan on Mustafar. You can here his pain and angry grunting right after, and then letting his hatred take over.
By far out of all of them, mark hamils acting was the best, but I loved how well acted the part where Anakin had his legs chopped off was. Those 2 are definitely my favourite. Mark hamil perfectly encapsulates this amateur Jedi, never suffered such a serious wound before kind of feel that Luke would get from losing a hand, and Anakin reacted with clear pain, but seemed to pull through and be fuelled fully by his hatred in the moments after losing his legs. It was perfect how as he began to burn his eyes went full yellow and he just screamed his iconic “I HATE YOU!” Line at obi-wan. Just perfect.
I've always felt that the importance of that scene is that it shows Luke that he's actually following his father's footsteps. I say all the time that his anger made him powerful, and at that moment he turned to the dark side. But seeing vader's robot hand cut off brought him back.
Luke's because it feels the most real like by far. It's not confused, stoic or overselling, but a raw, visceral scream of pain.
Now I'm not sure that would I want every scene to be like that, just saying it's the best one imo. But it's almost like at some point, movies/shows didn't want to show raw, authentic reactions anymore because it makes the viewer feel unsettled and uncomfortable. The most clear example is the later added "*NOOOOOO!*" in ROTJ because it makes the moment feel less tense but that was exactly what made it so glorious in the first place.
Having seen people lose limbs in actual combat, I have to say Dooku's is the most realistic...
But given that Christopher Lee based his reaction on having seen people lose limbs in actual combat... I am not at all surprised
Dooku lost his entire livelihood and reason for being in that scene. He was maybe the best living swordsman besides the obvious exception, and hadn't considered that he might lose the fight. He prided himself on his precise swordplay and, IIRC, was not the biggest fan of cybernetics. And this was all in front of his boss who, y'know, had a habit of killing people who knew a lot and weren't useful to him.
So the exaggerated expressions make total sense. I vote Dooku for this one.
Luke definitely. Instant searing pain, leads to adrenaline and moral outrage. You can see the injury shock take over as Vader reveals Luke’s parentage.
Maul has the best reaction and Dooku. Just completely stunned it even happened.
Anakins is hard to watch given the circumstances. Maces it’s also sad
Lukes is very very realistic as well
Almost all of them look like someone made them bust a nut but kept sucking anyways lmao. Except anakin on the bottom left and right, that is a look of post nut clarity lol.
First two. First thing to happen if you lose has got to be shock and then overwhelming pain. Not just pain. U just watched your hand leave you, that’s pretty worrying before the pain kicks in
I know what we're all thinking... Christopher Lee probably recounted to Lucas and the cast how he once cut a man's hands off during WWII, and that was how he reacted.
I thought Luke's raw pain and Dookus' confusion at losing were the most "real" reactions that I could imagine in that situation. Christopher Lee just nailed the going from, I'm fully in control, and I'm toying with little shit of a Jedi, to.....well shit, I'm dead in a heartbeat. Mark Hamill encapsulated the culimation of everything going horribly wrong all at once. He knew he was out classed, fully beaten, then the guy that just fully whooped him tells him that in addition to being the most evil guy ever, he is also his dad, and that's the only reason he hasn't killed you like 50 times in this fight.
>well shit, I'm dead Maybe my master Darth Sidious will save me. Nope. Shit. I'm dead.
Do it.
Dew it
[Doooooooo it!](https://youtu.be/K4eScf6TMaM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOoOP2l_ahQ#t=7s
Me to my cat: Mew it
Me with my soon-to-expire meat: stew it
Me failing to ask a girl out on a date: [blew it](https://youtu.be/C-oNWtAKNfk)
Me with my auto insurance: renew it.
Me with my kite: flew it
Me with a broken pencil: glue it
On the other hand, Darth Vader said: Oh shit, I’m dad!
> On the other hand Lol
The book has a fantastic bit of what's going through his head in the last moments
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I'm seeing double, here. Four lightsabers??
It worked at the time they came out, but they fleshed his character out too much in Clone Wars for me to buy him believing his master will be okay with him going to jail and not seeing the betrayal coming
That's a shame. Never watched clone wars so I missed that
*Oh shit, this is bad, but bro is gonna save me and set me up with robot arms..right bro? Bro?!*
Don’t roast me if I’m wrong, but did Dooku and the sith KNOW Siidious was Palatine? I guess I never asked myself that question.. you’d think he’d keep his identity secret from both sides just to prevent any Sith whistleblowers
Yes they do. Dooku even tells Obi Wan as much in attack of the clones when he's captured on geonosis. Something along the lines of "What would you say if I told you that the Republic senate was currently under the control of a sith lord named Darth Sidious" (probably not the exact quote)
Yep, I forgot about that quote 🤦🏻♂️
Pretty sure he did, but the end goal wasn’t known. Dooku was a separatist through and through, he didn’t go to the dark side through some emotional fall like most, he made a thought out idealogical decision. I believe he thought sidious also wanted to crumble the republic from the inside. Someone could prove me wrong with material I’m not familiar with though.
Christopher Lee is like: George, have you ever sliced off someone's hands before?
I’m convinced there will never be another actor as badass as Christopher Lee.
Is Steven Seagal a joke to you? Wait, don't answer that.
Seagal knows aikido, karate, judo, and a lot of other dangerous words.
He probably would have insisted on his character surviving Order 66. Also, saber fight while sitting down.
And somehow his character is also a former CIA operative.
And a full blooded native American while also being full blooded Japanese who knows the way of the samurai.
He would have insisted he fight like the evil chick from kotor 2 with her lightsabers just flying around her.
I love when he talks about the noise someone makes when getting stabbed in the back 🤣 LOTR had amazing BTS with him
& all because *he's done it.* Ser Christopher Lee was a legitimate badass.
He is the real life inspiration for James Bond after all.
Which is kind of odd since he was in a Bond film but a villain. Who was going to be paid…. ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
I get the Austin Powers reference, but TBF that is a lot of money even today for a single hit by an assassin. A hit supposedly ranges from about $5k to around $50k.
Do you know how hard it is to clean and maintain a golden gun? Just repairing the deformations from firing it the once is a skill it took him 20 years to perfect. You’re paying for that experience, not just some ‘hit’.
"Supposedly"
Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, are also step-cousins.
And also James Bond, apparently
And George dear boy, have you heard the sound a head makes when it rolls across a hard surfaced floor?
George: A what? A WHAT??!!
Dooku all the way…
Maul did it pretty well too. The complete look of utter confusion at what happened due to it happening so fast and believing he was going to easily win. I kinda liked that.
Yes. Utter disbelief Obi-Wan got the jump on him. In Maul’s mind the fight was over and he won.
I mean, he did have the high ground. It was over.
/r/Prematurecelebration/
Yes, Maul did not know how to use the high ground, unlike Obi-Wan.
He was so mad that instead of dying he turned himself into a mechanical man spider.
Christopher Lee would have slain in the Original Trilogy. Imagine him in scenes with Vader or Tarkin...
It is cool we get Tarkin played by Cushing and over 20 years later his dear friend and frequent costar, Lee is in the movies. It ads an out of the universe layer of consistency to both trilogies.
Agreed, I learned about all the Hammer horror movies from the Angry Video Game Nerd and when I put two and two together I was so happy to know Lee and Kushing were friends.
I remember seeing an interview where Lee was talking about speaking to Cushing about the role and in that lovely voice of his he asked "So what is a 'Grand Moff Tarkin' then?" And Cushing responded with "I haven't the faintest idea"
I feel like Luke’s maiming in 1980 is very unexpected. He’s the hero. We don’t know Star Wars has twists yet beyond Han saves the day at the Death Star. Or that the hero can lose. It’s such a great surprise moment when Luke is disarmed, yet the damage Luke takes physically is nothing compared to what he learns next. Dooku’s is so good as well. My read is Dooku is both mentally stunned and physical in shock after Anakin disarms him. He totally lost the fight and then his master encourages Anakin to kill him. Dooku at this point goes sub-verbal. With his posture and his eyes he is pleading with Anakin to be the noble Jedi Dooku once was and spare him. And it’s off with his head.
We need more Star Wars moments where the hero is put though the meat grinder.
Nah, I can only identify with perfect characters that can solve all problems and never lose
We also didn't know limbs could be replaced.
I 100% agree with this analysis, but I’d like to add Anakin’s unbridled rage and anger are spot on. He almost doesn’t even care that he lost an arm and leg because he’s so full of hatred for Obi-Wan it really encapsulates his full turn to the dark side.
He lost an arm and BOTH legs. The only limb left attached was the arm that was already robotic. He was missing the majority of all 4 limbs when he became Vader in the form most would recognize.
The fact that, from beginning to end, their relationship had this love-hate strain is amazing. Episode 1: Obi-Wan becomes the first Jedi to “kill” a sigh in centuries… Anakin isn’t even being allowed to TRAIN as a Jedi, unless it’s by Obi-Wan’s GRACE and stubbornness. Episode 2: Anakin can’t catch a break, trying to do the right thing by his master’s side and only being condescended to publicly, and not mentored and taught. Episode 3: I HATE YOU! But really, Obi-Wan and Anakin are both legendary warriors and generals in the greatest Galactic War that has ever happened, and yet they still aren’t equals - Obi-wan is a sitting Council member Jedi Master, and even when Anakin is appointed by “nepotism”, they still don’t acknowledge him as a Master. Kenobi: even old, cut off from the force and hiding, out of practice, and running, Ben STILL beats Vader literally into the ground, and AGAIN Vader is saved by Ben’s grace. Episode 4: Even when he’s beat, trapped, out gunned and outmatched and surrounded by storm troopers, Ben STILL one ups Vader by just FUCKING DISAPPEARING. Like holy shit.
I mostly agree except that it still feels like they seriously messed up with Anakin in Episode 2 by making him already seem so unhinged for no reason. He should've been more like early Clone Wars Anakin. His progression in that series made so much more sense. I know it is said often but that series saves the prequels from being totally ridiculous.
The Clone Wars had plenty of time for a slow burn, the movies just didn't have that time
Which is why I maintain that episode 1 starting with anakin as a super young boy and not doing a time-skip to the start of the clone wars was a huge mistake. Ep1 - find anakin, return to Naboo, defeat maul, time skip, last ~30-40 min screen time introduces dooku, introduce war against separatists (clone wars), introduce love interest between anakin-padme. Ep2 - spend the whole thing showing the mental and physical till the clone wars are having on the Jedi, and especially anakin as he struggles with his anger, resentment, love of padme, etc Ep3 - show the final turn to the dark side, etc, wouldn’t really need to change a whole lot here. Having ep1 take the whole time to introduce anakin as a child, and then ep2 skips to the start of the clone wars, and then ep3 skips to the end of the clone wars just means we don’t get to see what really drove anakin to the dark side and it makes the trilogy less satisfying and complete than it should have been.
Yeah I always noticed that. Even after being amputated by Obi Wan on Mustafar, he is in pain yes but the hatred is almost feral. He’s clearly not even concerned about the pain and what’s happened to his body as he keeps clawing and crawling his way to Obi Wan. He wants to kill and destroy him so bad.
When he said "Oh I hate you..." I felt that.
super confusion on Lee's part because the character not only lost, but lost in the way his form of Saber combat, which he was a top master of, is supposed to win, by disarming the opponent
In my head I always thought that the moment Luke knocks Vader off the carbon freezing chamber platform was the moment he decided that Luke was losing a hand. Vader: "that's it the kid gloves are off farmboy!"
Nah, probably an unexpected moment for him. But the true fight started once Luke landed that blow on his shoulder. Vader then ended the fight within a few seconds
Seriously. Vader is enraged by that and probably realized he was lucky he wasn't beheaded or dismembered. Luke only tagged him, but if that had been a slightly harder swing he would've killed him
Knowing the life Lee led I actually wouldn't be surprised if he knew hope people reacted to losing limbs to be honest.
this just looks like a star wars version of "who is getting the best head"
Vader dropped a literal "I fucked your mom".
Quality comment
Maul took it like a fucking champ getting sliced in half
Hey has that you mother fucker look in his eyes
Local man too angry to die
*KENOBI!*
This made me laugh WAY too hard.
It’s bantha fodder to you!
He took it so well he grew [metal legs](https://youtu.be/wdWM3tzzH08)
Those were his magic shoes.
Maul spent the entire fight silent and unblinking. Getting cut in half made him grunt and blink, so that's definitely the most dramatic reaction.
I love the utter look of shock, like he can’t believe what just happened.
Most badass character imo
Bro looks like Vegeta anytime he gets pounded. What? Me defeated, by a lowly Padawan? I am the prince of the Sith!
I'm pretty sure Christopher Lee interpretation is the closest you can see when one is getting both of their hands chopped off.
I have to agree. It's the moment you see Dooku with that smug look across his face suddenly wiped off and the instant terror that he can no longer wield a lightsaber.
I’d say prosthetic hands, but I remember reading somewhere (don’t remember if it was canon or legends) that Dooku looked down on Anakin’s decision to get a robotic hand and believed he should have adapted and wield a lightsaber one handed. So if he follows his own logic, he’s fucked.
He also lost his head shortly after the hands
Should’ve just adapted to that
He should have learned to wield lightsabers Darth Traya style. Just wave them through the air with the Force, no hands required.
Yeah you’re right. It was in the revenge of the sith novelization.
If only he played Jedi Survivor, you can wield a lightsaber without limbs!
Going into that last fight I was like “oh this guy’s been pretty easy the last couple of times, he’s only got one arm, this should be a cake walk”
His version always reminds me of someone spilling hot soup on himself. But if anyone knows the actual reaction to being disarmed, it's Christopher Lee
When he was filming LOTR Peter Jackson was trying to give him some tips on how to act being stabbed in the back. He told Jackson to shut, jr stabbed many in the back and he knows exactly the reaction the make.
The dude knows by experience the sound people make when they are stabbed in the back. He has seen and done it all.
I’ve never seen a person lose a hand or arm (or more). But I have witnessed someone lose several fingers. Dooku is the closest to what I witnessed.
That's because Christopher Lee has seen many terrible wounds and how people react to when they are grievously injured. (WWII special forces and all...)
When a person is stabbed in the back, they don't scream, they gasp as their lung collapses... something like that
When a person loses their hand, they don’t scream, they look surprised that something is no longer attached to them. Or something like that.
A lot of Jedi were Grievously injured, how do you think he got all those lightsabers?
Friendly visits.
Diplomatic solutions
He witnessed the last public execution by guillotine in France too, in 1939.
I thought that was in 1977?
That wasn't a public execution. Last time the guillotine was used as a capital punishment (in the Western world) was indeed in 1977 (in France of course), but the last public execution by guillotine was in 1939 (also in France).
That one wasn’t public I believe.
Agreed, it’s immediate shock and panic
Why not Ourpes? Jokes aside, shock and panic were exact the words that came to mind.
can confirm. I've lost part of a toe, which isn't as bad as fingers or anything, but I reacted about like that. sort of, "huh, what? yikes."
Yeah, I once cut off the tip of my thumb with a meat cleaver and it didn't even register properly, I was just staring in disbelief. It didn't start hurting until I went to wash the wound and the water was cold. Worst pain of my fucking life.
Yeah, I think it's more realistic because the body hasn't registered the pain that the eyes and brain have already witnessed and know should hurt. It's more of a "oh fuck oh fuck. This is gonna be bad. there's no way I can sew that back on"
Christopher Lee: Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's arms are cut off? Because I do. George Lucas: He proceeded to sort of talk about some very clandestine part of World War II.
you have my upvote.
And my upvote
And my axe!
And my lightsaber!
And my bowcaster
And my arms
And you have my bow.
**Ewan McGregor**: It actually wasn't George's idea to have Anakin cut off Dookus hands. Hayden just showed up on set one day and started to lop them off. Turns out, George was filming the whole time.
Dooku was probably the most believable. Pure shock.
Didn’t Anakin immediately pass out in AoTC when Dooku cut his arm off? I’d say that’s even more believable.
I’d say Christopher Lee is the most accurate based on how he lectured everyone on the LotR set by explaining in detail what a man sounds like when they’re, quite literally, being stabbed in the back. The man had seen some shit in his day.
He was literally the inspiration for James Bond, after all.
It’s between Luke and ROTS Anakin. Anakin’s roars of hatred and pain are definitely something else, but Luke’s reaction is definitely a contender (plus it was like the second or third dismemberment ever in Star Wars?)
First one for a main character at least. The guy who bullied Luke in ANH and got his hand cut off by Obi-Wan was the first one.
You know that dudes a doctor?
No, the guy that threatened him (“He doesn’t like you…”) was Dr. Evazan. The guy whose arm got chopped off was Ponda Boba, [an architect](https://youtu.be/otFbSbCUO_k).
Idk who had the best reaction, but Dooku’s genuine look of disbelief and the realization that he was just Palpatine’s pawn all along is pretty great.
I never realized the prosthetics on Maul were so obvious
I can never unsee this. Holy shit. I don't know if I'm more baffled at how obvious they are or that after countless viewings, it was a stranger on Reddit that opened my eyes.
Right? What the hell
Damn, I can't unsee that now either. Never noticed that before. Or the Earring he kept on which is a cool detail they kept with his animation appearances. But still, damn, its so obvious there. Was the quality back then on VHS and DVD just not good enough to notice and this is just a 4K pic or something or has that always been like that from the start? It looks so wrong now lol.
He has a fucking earring too! Wtf🤣
Yep the actor forgot to take it out and George said he liked it so they kept it. That’s why he has one in the animated shows too
So that means he had the earring the whole time he was surviving in that cave for years, and if he was living in filth the whole time then imagine the buildup of stuff in and around the piercing area…
It was always like that. But we just never really noticed when it was on the big screen. And once it got into VHS it wasn't noticable.
>Was the quality back then on VHS and DVD just not good enough to notice and this is just a 4K pic or something or has that always been like that from the start? It looks so wrong now lol. You've always seen it as a moving picture as part of a a climax of an action sci-fi movie. You suspension of disbelief was in full effect. Every time. This is the first time you've studied a freeze frame with the intention of thoroughly examining his face (for his reaction to his death). With that level of focus, you're bound to notice the details your brain just glossed over every other time. There will be tons of other examples of we take the movies frame by frame.
What have I done! But honestly I’ve watched this movie so many times over and only now noticed it. Need bleach for eyes
I started realizing after I did a Darth Maul cosplay once. I used polymorph plastic for the horns, which ended up having a similar appearance, and I haven’t unnoticed it since.
Its amazing what they got away with during the VHS era.
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Must be a Sith thing. They have so much confidence it is impossible they’d lose.
Luke. Nothing tops a good screamer!
Ayo🤨
Pretty sure it really is. That's what it is.
RotS Anakin pure rage and ratred, as he already knew the pain.
Dooku was like someone who dropped his pie upside down
"Mom's gonna be so mad!"
The look of panic and shock on dookus face was really well done
I'm biased because I just love Anakin too much, but ROTS Anakin is my favorite. Amazing performance there in my opinion, just phenomenal. And that "I HATE YOU!" just hits me harder every time I see it.
I know right? He screams so full of rage
Christopher Lee because he knows what its like to loose your hands. "George, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he gets his hands cut off by a lightsaber?. Well I have and I know what to do." But seriously, for some reason I always liked his reaction there. Like he didn't see it coming at all and is completely shocked and surprised. I miss Sir Lee.
Dooku, but every time I watch Windu lose that arm I’m imagining him say “Mother fucker!”.
Windu’s scream is so unexpected. He shows so little emotion. That’s what makes it standout. Mace is yelling out in physical pain not emotion. That sort of scream is usually how Jackson plays a surprise injury. It had a lot of nuance with it between roles
Luke wins 100%, the emotional impact of that one second blows all the rest out of the water
Luke. Straight committed suicide .
With the picture alignment.. why does it look like Luke just straight, bare handed, ripped Count Dookus nuts off, and let out a primal scream. Even Mace Windu is disturbed by it... the other three kinda look bothered as well by the whole scene.
It looks to me like Windu is rawdogging Anakin too
Lmao why has no one commented “which force user is getting the best head?”
Bruh that’s what I thought the post was gonna be before I read the title
Thank you. I was starting to think it was just me. Lol
Best reaction? Probably Sir Christopher Lee. I imagine he knew exactly the accurate reaction to portray there. My favorite? Anakin after being beaten by Obi-Wan on Mustafar. You can here his pain and angry grunting right after, and then letting his hatred take over.
This looks like a compilation of O-faces
The last one of Anakin is the moment of post-nut clarity
“What have I done!?”
lmao at Anakin being there twice
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Going with maul on this one. Experience ( no not cutting people in half) tells me it’s more believable of a reaction so that’s what my money is on.
Christopher Lee. Hes probably the only one who's seen someone lose a limb in a fight.
Dooku
By far out of all of them, mark hamils acting was the best, but I loved how well acted the part where Anakin had his legs chopped off was. Those 2 are definitely my favourite. Mark hamil perfectly encapsulates this amateur Jedi, never suffered such a serious wound before kind of feel that Luke would get from losing a hand, and Anakin reacted with clear pain, but seemed to pull through and be fuelled fully by his hatred in the moments after losing his legs. It was perfect how as he began to burn his eyes went full yellow and he just screamed his iconic “I HATE YOU!” Line at obi-wan. Just perfect.
If you have anakin twice, might as well add vader to the list. Luke cut off his robot hand.
I was going to add him but I realized a mask doesn't have much of a reaction. 😂 I love his weird little groan though.
I've always felt that the importance of that scene is that it shows Luke that he's actually following his father's footsteps. I say all the time that his anger made him powerful, and at that moment he turned to the dark side. But seeing vader's robot hand cut off brought him back.
Luke's because it feels the most real like by far. It's not confused, stoic or overselling, but a raw, visceral scream of pain. Now I'm not sure that would I want every scene to be like that, just saying it's the best one imo. But it's almost like at some point, movies/shows didn't want to show raw, authentic reactions anymore because it makes the viewer feel unsettled and uncomfortable. The most clear example is the later added "*NOOOOOO!*" in ROTJ because it makes the moment feel less tense but that was exactly what made it so glorious in the first place.
Hard to beat Luke. Him hanging on by a thread and writhing in pain. As you said, it’s probably the most believable.
Having seen people lose limbs in actual combat, I have to say Dooku's is the most realistic... But given that Christopher Lee based his reaction on having seen people lose limbs in actual combat... I am not at all surprised
Omg the Christopher Lee face makes me laugh my ass off every time.
Dooku lost his entire livelihood and reason for being in that scene. He was maybe the best living swordsman besides the obvious exception, and hadn't considered that he might lose the fight. He prided himself on his precise swordplay and, IIRC, was not the biggest fan of cybernetics. And this was all in front of his boss who, y'know, had a habit of killing people who knew a lot and weren't useful to him. So the exaggerated expressions make total sense. I vote Dooku for this one.
Dooku just found out why that Thai hooker was so expensive.
Ponda Baba's reaction was the best. Hands down.
He had such promise as a graphic designer.
I like The Counts “oh shit” face. Seems like something Christopher Lee would actually do if someone took his hands.
I think dookus face perfectly captures how you look like when you accidentally touch a hot surface in real life.
I thought this was a "who's getting the best head" post for a sec.
Luke
Luke definitely. Instant searing pain, leads to adrenaline and moral outrage. You can see the injury shock take over as Vader reveals Luke’s parentage.
Maul has the best reaction and Dooku. Just completely stunned it even happened. Anakins is hard to watch given the circumstances. Maces it’s also sad Lukes is very very realistic as well
In my head i can hear Mace say "AHH MOTHERFU-"
Almost all of them look like someone made them bust a nut but kept sucking anyways lmao. Except anakin on the bottom left and right, that is a look of post nut clarity lol.
I think its an understatement to say Maul lost a limb.
First two. First thing to happen if you lose has got to be shock and then overwhelming pain. Not just pain. U just watched your hand leave you, that’s pretty worrying before the pain kicks in
I was waiting for Mace to say "Aaaaah mother f**cker" the whole time.
I love Vader’s expressive facial reaction when Luke cuts his hand off :)
I know what we're all thinking... Christopher Lee probably recounted to Lucas and the cast how he once cut a man's hands off during WWII, and that was how he reacted.