Qui-Gon Jinn’s final goal in George Lucas’ narrative might have been to make a degree in regards to the very actual menace of the reemerging Sith within the first movie, however that does not change the truth that Qui-Gon is a fierce fighter and that his remaining battle is among the greatest moments in all of “Star Wars” lore. The epic duel is wonderful to look at as Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his Grasp tackle Darth Maul (Ray Park).
The trio flips across the royal palace on Naboo as the 2 Jedi attempt to take down an opponent that doesn’t blink. (You by no means seen that about Darth Maul’s scenes? Neither did we, at first.) In the long run, Qui-Gon goes down first, just for his Padawan to conquer his Sith opponent. Regardless of Qui-Gon’s abrupt loss of life, Lucas clarified that his ending wasn’t purely to make a degree about Sith expertise. “We would have liked to ascertain that,” he stated, “however on the similar time, we wished the final word sword struggle, as a result of they had been all excellent.” A bit later, Lucas added, “I had the struggle frequently transfer areas in order that we had some room to do it on varied units, and that was actually a callback to the Douglas Fairbanks / Errol Flynn films, the place you will have a extremely lengthy, intense sword struggle.”
Lucas additionally revealed a forward-thinking ingredient of Qui-Gon’s loss of life when he stated, “It type of predisposes the sword struggle between Anakin and Obi-Wan in a while. There’s actual goal to it. It’s important to set up the principles after which keep on with them. The scene illustrates simply how Jedi and Sith struggle and use lightsabers.”