Amandla Stenberg as Sol kicks Lee Jung-jae's Sol in The Acolyte Episode 2
The Big Picture The premiere of The Acolyte introduced us to a whole new corner of Star Wars, but the highlight of the first two episodes was undoubtedly the fighting scenes. The series starts off with a great one, when Mae goes head-to-head with Jedi Master Indara in a bar on the planet Ueda, and then, in Episode 2, holds her own against Master Sol on Olega. In both these scenes, lightsabers play no significant part, giving way to what's been dubbed as "Force-fu.
This sort of collective effort in the pre-production stage makes all the difference in the final sequence, allowing the whole team the time to get creative about what the choreography should look like. The focus on martial arts allows for the Force to play a larger role in the action itself.
All this doesn't mean that lightsabers are bad for action sequences at all. When two Force users engage in combat, what we expect to see are lightsabers clashing, and that's why the choreography usually focuses on that. We all love a good lightsaber clash that's well-choreographed. It's only that each fighting style has its own limitations.
This kind of movement using wire work is another point in favor of "Force fu." Deep down, Jedi are martial artists, too, and only through a combination of choreography and wirework can this become evident. Incorporating lightsabers into this kind of fight would pose another complication, because, like Dafne Keen kept hitting the floor with her lightsaber, other actors could hit the wires, too, taking longer to film a full sequence .
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