Star Wars Symbolism: Lightsabers
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The lightsaber is the Force made visible, sensible, concrete -- the mental transformed into the physical. What really makes the lightsaber special is that it’s the bridge between the Force that’s felt inwardly, and the Force that’s manifested in the outer world. The lightsaber is not just elegant and civilized -- it’s inspirational, telling us that what we feel and believe can have a direct, visible mark on the world… if we understand how to access and control the Force.
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Three colors for the Jedi imply diversity and relativity. Red is the lone i.e. absolute color for Siths. Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.
Interesting point and very true!
IronWolfSpear they are going by Disney canon.
This is the Jedi comment thread. You want the Imperial thread on Emperor Trump's Channel.
Thanks for your videos
And here i thought Luke's shift from blue to green was because green looked better ontrasted against the Tattooine blue sky and tan sand.
It was mostly because the blue blade was not visible at all against the blue sky.
That was the technical and real world reasoning. The story just supplements the reason.
In the deleted scene for the return of the Jedi, as it shows Luke making his new lightsaber we can see he uses a light converter so that it looks green when its actually red from a synthetic crystal (which is now a bled crystal from the new canon)
Kylo was not pretending to give his lightsaber to Han. He was being tempted by the light, he clearly was accepting Han's proposal to walk away from all of this. JJ himself said that. And is impossible to Rey being droped in Jakku to be safe from Kylo because the timeline doesn't make sense. Rey was already in Jakku when Kylo fell to the Dark Side.
this is true
the1nonlyani "It's true.....all of it"
I reject what Disney says is canon just because they cant make $ off old stories they didnt make up themselves. And tell this girl to fact check better. Its not a lazer, its plasma that gets focused through the crystal and contained. Thats why their hands dont melt or catch fire. Practice blades had a stronger containment and it wouldnt cause damage. Is she making half this stuff up? Jesus its sad that they think these videos need to be made to explain stuff they can just google.
Clark B. lol don't be a nerd. It clearly has to do with ideologies don't miss the point
But if what she is saying is true then only a force sensitive person could even turn on let alone use a light saber. Under this theory the light saber should be a useless handle in the hands of Fin. Unless he is secretly & undetectably force sensitive, which I don't see as a possibility
Kylo didn’t “pretend”, he was genuinely conflicted before he killed Han.
Yeah that statement really upset me. There was an entire silent conversation between the two. I think Han knew it would be his life or his son's.
Hey, I have an expansion on Mace Windu's purple lightsaber. As you guys said, blue merging with red creates purple, but rather than serving as Anakin's fall to the dark side, it actually symbolizes Mace's inner conflict. Now, I'm not sure what the new canon states, but Mace always wrestled with his darker side, that is why he created the saber combat form of Vaapad (old canon, not sure if it's in the new). Paraphrasing Wookiepedia: it allows the combatant to enjoy the flow of combat, hence making it a dangerous combat form as it tempts the wielder with darker instincts. So, rather than purple being a symbol for Anakin's fall (as his saber color does not change) it was actually a clear symbol for Mace's own inner conflict.
Hah, wish I saw this before I made my comment:P
Samuel L. Jackson asked for a purple lightsaber and George Lucas said yes.
As far as I know, Vaapad is still canon in Disneyverse. If a superficial casual fan like me (whose only proper exposure to the EU has been KOTOR 1, the Plagueis novel and the Darth Bane trilogy) knows this shit while the guys at ScreenPrism don't, then they should bloody well be ashamed of themselves. Also, does Disney really say green sabers signify someone "special" in the new canon? Because last time I checked, Qui-Gon Jinn, Kit Fisto, and other Jedi were made toast by the Sith, while Dooku and Mace Windu originally had blue lightsabers before they got their respective red and purple sabers (and both of them were more powerful than all the other green saber wielders, save for Yoda).
Green sabers are wielded by those who prefer the study of the Force over lightsaber combat, while blue is used by those who focus more on lightsaber combat than the study of the Force (mostly). While Luke and Yoda are indeed special, I don't see how the likes of Jinn, Fisto, Quinlan Vos and other green saber wielders are any more "special" than blue saber wielders like Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ki Adi Mundi, Aayla Secura and others.
KhukuriGod you're not wrong but neither is screenprism depending on how you take the word special. It clearly represents a certain connection to the force that may be different. Hence Luke's change. Blue saber could mean they are better fighters but what we havnt seen is apprentices with green sabers. Atleast from my recollection
Ben Ods the fact he asked for it, doesn't mean it has no meaning in the universe. First of all, it wasn't an immediate decision for Lucas. Secondly, it doesn't matter if the meaning was given afterwards, it's still valid and fits the character.
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Hello Mr. Ollivander
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naturally colorless? Rip SWEU
Calimero Hœnir well it's in the new canon
Captain Ace yeah, may the old canon rest in peace
Since when are lightsaber crystals naturally colorless?? I hate Disney
it's better this way, not only do the sith literally have to go through with a deeply emotional corruptive process to make their infamous red crystals instead of synthetic, but without colour they are blank slate that chose an adapt to their chosen Jedi with the colour showing the inner workinings of the creators mind and it's values.
ryan torlay nah. Thats actually kinda boring explanation. Thing with natural/synthetic crystals has more depth and is better for world building. Sabers are red because siths are evil is laughably straightforward explanation. Disney sucks at star wars, because they do not understand the fun behind it.
You seek out a Crystal that is symbiotically "Yours" it takes on colour relating to what type of force user you are, it keeps it's colour until it is put in to a new or rebuilt Saber.
Jedi Guardians are Peace Keepers and Protectors and have Blue Blades symbolizing Defense
Jedi Counselors are Peace Makers and Scholars in the ways of the Force having Green Blades symbolizing Wisdom
Jedi Sentinels are Knowledgeable the ways of the wider world and gifted with common scene insight they carry Yellow Blades symbolizing Practicality
Then their are the Jedi Shadows, Jedi from other branches of the order who's lives are profoundly effected by and tied to the Dark Side they spend their lives seeking out the Dark Side and putting an end to it's Evils.
Some Jedi fall between branches of the order and so dos the colour of their Sabers , Eg. Asoka in the later parts of the Clone Wars with her offhand saber being a Yellow/Green after she has spent some time studding with more practically minded Masters
Then their are Jedi who just realty like a Colour
The reason Luke had green was the decision of the special effects team of Return of the Jedi... It was green so it would contrast against the blue sky of Tatooine in the first sequence with Jabba the Hutt.. It was all a production decision (like Mace Windu had purple, because Samuel L Jackson likes the color purple).. It wasn't until later that all this color of the lightsaber had a deeper meaning was shoe horned on there.
Much (most?) of the lore of Star Wars surrounding the films was later tacked on. It's well known by now that Lucas was making shit up as he went along, and a lot of what people understand of the lore came from third parties working to make sense of it all.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing by any means - I'm a fan of the deep lore surrounding the franchise. But yeah, there wasn't a lot of rhyme or reason to the early films in particular until someone went back, devised a theory, and helped that theory become legend.
Actually Mace Windu's lightsaber was purple because Samuel Jackson wanted to be able to see himself in the battle of geonosis
Ok, well that make sense.. Still, it was purple because the actor Samuel L. WANTED it for the movie and not because the Jedi Mace Windu was channeling both sides of the force or whatever.
Yes, at first was because of that, but later, they managed to create a coherent explanation to his blade color.
If I recall correctly, the Expanded Universe said a lightsaber's color was purely the result of the kind of crystal used to power it. Not all Kyber crystals had the same properties, so each variety would produce a different kind of blade. The backstory for "The Force Awakens" referenced this, saying that Kylo's blade was due to a less refined or possibly even damaged crystal, hence the jagged fiery blade.
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I disagree with some of the points presented.
Lightsaber colors come from their crystals. Synthetically created crystals are usually red, and the sith used them because, for thousands of years, the jedi controlled the few special planets where the crystals were grown and harvested for their own lightsabers. The sith, living in hiding, had no choice but to create their own artificial lightsaber crystals for a long time. Once that became a tradition among sith, red lightsabers became part of their self-identity.
When Anakin turned evil, his lightsaber still had the blue crystal and its color didn't change.
Mace windu's purple represents how he uses the dark side in his fighting style, which is unusual for a jedi. Mace windu's anger, aggression, and distrust represents jedi hypocrisy in action, which contributes to how Anakin draws the conclusion that the jedi are not good.
Then the video just goes into a rabbit hole of phallic, paternal, and other such 'symbolism'.
5BMN You need to update your canon.
No! Expanded Universe forever ~~~
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5BMN eu has and will always be a joke.
Grandsome his canon is updated
Don't call disney's 'canon' real canon
Yeah, I disagree with most of it. I'm not sure what is and isn't canon right now, but colorless crystals cannot be right.
Then the argument for the green lightsaber comes along, completely neglecting that Qui-Gon also used a green crystal. Though Qui-Gon and Yoda could not be much more different that they are (while staying good, anyway).
This was extremely well done. Brilliant, very well-thought-out and very deep. You did a great job.
Can you please say "dark-side users" instead of sith, because Kylo Ren is not a sith. Sith are not the only dark-side users in the galaxy.
Kylo is a wannabe Sith, tough.
Grandsome wannabe isn't the same as the actual thing
Kylo got misgendered in the force there
Yes. Also "there are always two". If Kylo is not a sith than lore wise speaking there are still two out there. I wonder if they are actually gonna adress that.
Well, since he's one of the last holder of that faith he is probably as good a Sith as you can get in this era. It's not like there's a Sith pope to excommunicate the guy.
Lightsaber as a phallic symbol? That's a bit of a stretch. These Freudian associations have been widely discredited by now. As they say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
R. Garner "film analysis" always have to include that and the so-called religious undertones of "everything". It's a crock. By her logic Luke was using his fathers........
not entirely discredited. Edward Bernays used the Freudian concept to get a generation of women smoking cigarettes
Chris Hall that's not what that means at all........
Lol is that your lightsaber or are you just happy to see me?
Keyword "sometimes." That statement wasn't intended to mean that phallic symbolism doesn't exist, just that the concept is often applied unnecessarily. A lot of weapons have characteristics which actually seem to fit the bill quite appropriately.
As Jedi Master Mace Windu (Samuel Jackson) states in Star Wars 1
"...The Light Saber, when you absolutely positively have to kill every mother fucker in the room, except no imitations..."
love the channel, but nah on this video
red use synthetic crystals
blue is used by those who depend more on their lightsabers
green is used by those who have a stronger connection to the force
with luke, he got a green lightsaber, because he had a stronger connection to the force after finishing his training
Andre Codner oh boy DID Luke have a strong connection to the force. We haven't even seen his best stories in a film
Actually (via deleted scenes) Luke was using a synthetic red crystal but was using a light converter to make it look green
Andre Codner Actually that isn't canon anymore. They changed it last year. There are no more synthetic crystals.. Sith make their lightsaber crystals bleed. Thats why it turns red.
Oh Mikey, the canon movies haven't said jack about this bleeding crystals business. It's pure chicanery that Disney made up to sell new visual encyclopedias IMO. The issues surrounding Legends v. Disney canon is less similar to the flat v. round earth debate and more like the controversy of whether Pluto is still a planet.
The change in canon came relatively recently, like overnight by comparison to how long we've had verifiable proof that the earth is round. Someone reading an old textbook that references Pluto as being one of nine planets in the solar system does no injustice to a person eager to know more about the local galaxy, just like reading old Star Wars EU books does no injustice to a person eager the know more about the galaxy far far away.
That's legends bruh. You are fucking wrong.
After giving it thought I'd say that while the Sith are evil using the dark side isn't inheritly bad, it just depends on how you use it. As with the prequel era Jedi their flaws are being too narrowed minded and dogmatic. They refused to progress in their ways such as not allowing for personal attachments like love which led to their downfall with anakin
True in the canon material Sith and Jedi fight for the same cause to be powerful and wise in the force but just represent a different ideology. For instance, how Anakin wanted to protect Padme at any cost by seeking more power which is considered a weekend state of the mind from a Jedi. However, in the Darth Maul issue comic, he wanted to find his own apprentice but instead killed the young padawan in combat he was trying to convert. Yet the Emperor knew of this betrayal and commend Maul for his actions because he was becoming a true Sith.
There is one small flaw with this theory. If the light saber is purely a physical manifestation of the force in the handler then a light saber would be nothing more than a useless handle in the hands of a non force sensitive person. I'm other words Fin should not have been able to turn it on let alone use it, unless you're saying that he is unknowingly & undetectably force sensitive.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Han should not have been able to use it either. Wrote a comment above before seeing yours.
Non-violence? Tell that to palpatine
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Your videos are informative and insightful. Keep it up.
Really like your commentary on the lightsaber and the power of the force expressed by the Jedi. May the force be with you always ⚡️
Mace Windu's purple lightsaber doesn't reprensent Anakin's turn to the dark side. It represent's Mace Windu's fighting style named Vaapad. It's the only style that was able to beat the emperor because it chanels the dark side in oneself. It enabled Windu to turn Sidious's power against him.
Purple lightsabers are used by those who study the dark side while staying on the light side of the force. Even though Samuel Jackson requested a purple lightsaber first, the meaning of this color was already canon by the time "Revenge of the Sith" was made. If you need to analyse that scene, you should concentrate on the contrast between Mace Windu who has touch the dark side and remained in control and Anakin who did the same but failed to keep control.
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the1nonlyani keeping fingers crossed still for a good Reylo analysis video from screenprism. Maybe they are waiting until after The Last Jedi premiers.
I think you're missing the whole point of the prequel trilogy (as did Disney). The prequel trilogy is basically all about the dark side. The whole point of it is to blur the line between light and dark, to deconstruct the concepts of good and evil in the SW universe. I'm pretty sure Lucas was self-critical of himself for making such a strong divide, and probably decided to change the meaning of the original trilogy. The thing is, you talk about the red lightsabers as representing agression, and generally talk about the dark side as being about giving into 'dark' emotions. But it's not about that. The dark side is about letting your feelings go free, like satanism. If you read about satanism, it becomes apparent, the whole existence of Satanist Church is more like a rebellion against the christian authoritarian church. The followers of the dark side see the Jedi as authoritarian. They are against the order, they don't want to restrict themselves. In the prequels it's shown that you can't truly love when you're a jedi. You can't get attached to anybody or anything, and it actually goes AGAINST the nature of people. It's also shown that the jedi are hypocrites, like when they make Anakin lie and betray, and eventually they wanna kill, as in that scene with Mace Windu. If you watch the films in chronological order though, you can see how the rise of the Empire doesn't make things better. It shows that Palpatine is also a hypocrite. All this talk about freedom, and he creates an even more authoritarian state. It actually kinda reminds radical leftists in that sense, especially russian communists. They also were fighting for freedom, but ended up creating a state even more totalitarian than Tsarist Russia. So in the end Darth Vader realises the hypocrisy of Palpatine. He realises he went too far in his attmepts to do good, and that the jedi were a lesser evil. The whole Star Wars saga became about the flawed human nature. It doesn't matter what you believe, it's always hard to stick to your ideals. Whatever ideologies we follow, it's important to remain human.
P. S. All that is also reflected in the expanded universe. For example, if you play Star Wars KotOR, you'll see both the Sith Empire and the Republic doing evil deeds.
Pyro-Nexus to stay in the light is human.
So basically the Sith when first started were like Satan, the first person to demand equal rights? I mean I don't like Satan, but as someone who does not believe in religion anymore, i at least don't like the part where you can't do certain things. As the time goes by the Sith changed to be more evil but never left the idea of being free unlike the Jedi, and Jedi being so oblivious to their religion make themselves look bad in ways. Is this somewhat what it is?
Joshua Hicks I'm not denying that, I'm just saying the light side in SW kinda goes against human nature, like many religions nowadays. It doesn't mean, for example, that being a christian isn't a good thing to do. The point is, it's not a bad thing either.
Quentin Diaz yeah, I feel it's sorta what it is, or at least close to that. I feel like the Sith aren't necessarily evil even, they just probably believe in things that the jedi don't believe in. For example, the Jedi say you only use force for peacekeeping, but the Sith probably see that statement as ridiculous and hypocritic. I believe the Sith have a very rational explanation for why they pick the dark side, they're not cartoony villains. And that's why I like SW, cause it's a fight of ideologies, not of good and evil or one race vs another. In SW universe people don't get born a certain way like in other fantasy universes (for example you're born as an elf, therefore you're enemies with orcs or smth along those lines).
Pyro-Nexus I don't think the light side works against human nature. I think it actually fulfils human nature and draws people away from their dark tendencies. What everyone gets wrong about the light side is that it can only interpreted through the teachings of the Jedi. And I'm pretty sure we can all agree that the Jedi messed up in how they approached the concepts of light and darkness.
This is an amazing analyzation!!! my mind is officially blown!!
They overlooked the yellow lightsabers...
I'm eagerly waiting for the new canon to give their own twist on why yellow and purple sabers exist. Maybe you have to be Samuel L. Jackson to have a purple lightsaber. I heard Jackson etched the letters BMF onto his prop saber when playing Mace.
Mace: Bring me my lightsaber!
Kenobi: What does it look like?
Mace: It's the one that says Bad Mutha Fucka ;)
They overlooked everything else. I mean orange too or black. But the explanation behind those are looser
This covers the movies only.
Because they suck
Crystals aren't colorless but great video nonetheless! Really loving this channel
Thanks Evan! We mean they're colorless before they're united with a Force-sensitive person through the lightsaber. So glad you're loving the channel!
Ben Ods With the new canon they are.
Ben Ods
Yes now they are.
you were actually right the crystals are colorless but only in canon in legends they were the different colors but have different meanings
DeChronics new canon isn't true star wars
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“If luke accepts his father’s lightsaber, which rey is offering to him, it would symbolize his accepting of his past and reconnecting with his father.”
Funnily enough, The Last Jedi DOES touch on this concept/symbolism... just not in the way you’d expect ;D
This was truly a outstanding synopsis
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So early even Anakin has all his limbs at place
Danaos V only problem being that no one cares
2017 almost 2018, and still people make stupid bitter comments like yours...
For some bizzare reasons the last part really hit me in the feels
A small note on Mace Windu's violet lightsaber. Of the seven traditional lightsaber forms of combat among the Jedi, the seventh was considered the most aggressive form. It involved an enjoyment of combat (much like how fencers and kendo-ka enjoy the skill and eagerness to win on a match without actually seeking to harm one another) which teeters dangerously on the line of the darkside. Mace Windu was a practitioner of this form, and thus his lightsaber shows this in a color hue that represents the blue tinged with red.
This was a very well done video, thank you for making it! I never actually thought about some of the real-world symbolism of the lightsaber colors. I constantly think about what they mean in-universe, but that's mostly because of the games.
I do have a few fanboy nitpicks, so please forgive me:
- Palpatine was the Supreme Chancellor, he stopped being a Senator by the end of Phantom Menace.
- Until we know for certain the path he is on (like from The Last Jedi), Kylo Ren is not a Sith. He can be considered a Dark Jedi, however. The Knights of Ren have not been revealed to be Sith, but the Order of Sith Lords also died with Palpatine and Vader.
- Red is not a naturally occurring kyber crystal color. Dark side users "bleed" their kyber crystals in order to make them red.
I like your theory. It's good for those who don't watch everything Star Wars, and read everything Star Wars.
This perfectly captures what makes Star Wars universally beautiful! Amazing analysis as usual.
Thank you so much!
great video. but the only reason lukes lightsaber was green in RoTJ was because the blue color of the saber didnt go well with the blue sky of tatooine, so they just made it green. no deaper meaning there
That explanation is for why it's not blue. Not an explanation for why it's green specifically.
This is like therapy and counseling. thanks.
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If this is true, why was Anakin's blue saber still blue when he turned to the Dark Side? How come Obi Wan's never changed color?
I believe this is revisionists history. All of a sudden the colors mean something, but it doesn't add up to what we see on film.
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Luke rejecting the lightsaber at the beginning of The Last Jedi makes all the more sense in light of the points about the lightsaber representing aspects of a person's connection to the force and having a certain emotional significance. The blue lightsaber, for him, was all about his relationship to his father. All that is in the past for him. It no longer has importance for him. The lightsaber itself has chosen Rey.
A little sidenote on Mace Windu. Yes he did want a different color to stand out, but lorewise his crystal was purple due to his stance in the force. He had a self developed fighting style which let the user absorb the darkside and channel it back to the attacker while not being consumed by it. That's the reason his turned purple (mix of red and blue). Though the symbolism of Anakin falling to the darkside at that moment with the purple colored saber feels nice as well, the deeper meaning.
Mace's purple saber in the balcony is such a cool observation!
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Who Kylo ren killed in the forceback wasn’t a Jedi
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It's amazing how when she explains how blue lightsabers symbolize clarity, logic, the lack of emotions, and defensive-only tactics, and then the visual related to all of this is Luke force-choking two of Jabba's guards.
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Anyone who thinks Hayden is a better actor than Ridley doesn't know anything about acting.
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If only Jedis can wield the lightsabers, how come Finn can use it?
He trained with a weapon almost like a lightsaber and this is shown by the other stormtrooper that attacks him in The Force Awakens. Then we are shown that he is Force Sensitive in The Rise of Skywalker. Or are you just asking this because the video made it apparent that only they can use lightsabers?
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Purple represents Mace Windu's dance with the dark side, his fighting style reflects darkness back on his opponent. This is why it is canon that he legitimately defeated Sidious, he can beat any dark opponent through this method. (However it causes him to go near to the dark side, he is the only Jedi to successfully use this style without turning dark, it requires intense concentration which was broken when he surprisingly lost his hand, otherwise even without his lightsaber he could've turned the Emperor's lightning back onto him)
-lightsabers don't change colours
-there's not only red, green, blue and purple but also yellow and white
-mace windu is not the only one that uses a purple lightsaber in the SW universe
-colour show your role :
-green are peace keeper
-blue are more fighter (even tho they are still peace keeper in a sence)
-violet is force extremly skilled jedi OR sith
-yellow is a bit more difficult to categorise but guardian of the jedi temple are an example
of
users
-red is for sith
i appreciate video on the SW universe but you need to use more than just the movies if you want to make those, otherwise you will miss on some informations.
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Oh God I miss the old EU
Tay Carroll the eu was so contradictory and out of touch with what made star wars become star wars.
@@chrishall2594 How was it out of touch? There is more mythical treatment of the saga in one chapter of the Del Rey books than in the entirety of the films (I can't speak on the books; I read the first book of the "new canon" and abandoned it immediately but I haven't heard much good about it since).
@@chrishall2594 you say that. And yet the stuff created in the books were in the movies corruscant the double blades saber. The EU had dreck I will not deny that. But for alot of people the good out weighed the bad. Seeing the state this franchise is in right now.... Can we really say the same about new canon.
But that's just my opinion if you would like some reading recommendations I would be happy to give you some!
Lightsabers are NOT powered by the force
The color DOES depend on the crystal
Isn't the purple lightsaber symbolic of gray morality? (Having qualities of both the light and dark side?) Never would've thought that it would be used metaphorically as Anakin's shift from Jedi to Sith.
It's symbolic of a Vaapad master. In-universe it's just a coincidence that the purple lightsaber is a blend of red and blue, but the writer of the novelization (Matthew Stover) took the opportunity to explain why Windu was able to face off against a powerful dark side user. His style, Vaapad, rides the wave of the dark side while keeping the user from directly channeling it, thus avoiding its corruption. It's an aggressive and lightning fast style that few can master without being tainted by darkness.
@@SequentiallyCompact careful one of these new canon guys will have to constantly remind you that, that book isn't canon.
@@bretts7200 Yea but it won't make their shitty new canon any better, so let those babies have their bottle.
I love you guys! These videos y'all make are awesome and insightful and thought provoking! Thank you so much for your perspective.
Thank you!
The shift from blue to green in the return on the jedi was because a blue one was hard to see against the sky...
I do like your video though
Tried to ditch this video on auto-play, SO glad that I ended up watching it.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it
This video is awesome
I only wished you should more of Darth Maul during the Sith part of your video.
Great video. You did a good job on this one.
AMAZING.
All fight in a story: is a battle of will. (So the battle can be in ALL WILL at one's: the conflict of the ''soul world'': in Star Wars the ''sould world'' is represented in/as ''the Force'')
The lightsaber is just the representative of this very principe. Wich is an art principe: writing fight without the notion of ''will'': is writing without ''story''
For example: Make someone fight (without ''willing to fight/injured, for fight/injured sake'') can be extremely meaningfull about the world narrated to us. For example: the necessity of one's action on peace (like Yoda).
Everything in Star Wars is representative of ''art principe''. (for example: The hero's journey). It's like watching a 101 class.
Rey’s parents being Jedi apprentices would have been way better than what we got.
This was beautifully done. Well done
Thank you!
Lightsabers described by someone who has never seen _Star Wars._
Mace’s purple lightsaber could also be representative of his personality and philosophy, since he uniquely wields the For e by channeling dark aggressions into constructive energy. He himself is a combination of the calm, rational blue and passionate, angry red.
The colours of the lightsabers are linked to the crystals used. The reason the sith lightsabers are red is because they have to distort the nature of the crystal (correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I looked at Star Wars lore).
Oh wait....there's no "on button"? Its "mind magic"?
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Watching this after Episode 9 you realize some things
Awesome analysis! Loved it 👍 Thanks!
Also, Purple is actually a Sith color as shown by ancient Sith's like Darth Bane's use of it. The Jedi Colors are Green, Blue and Yellow while the Sith have Red, Purple and Orange.
Very interesting analysis, from a certain point of view.
Love the fact that there's a history of meaning behind the specific colours of the lightsabre and Samuel L Jackson is just like "give me a purple one"
Traditionally, the different lightsaber colours represent different schools of thought within the order
Most commonly the green light saber represents the Jedi consulars
The others are guardian , sentinel, and seeker
Though the colours will often overlap, they are mostly tied to the one school of thought from which they choose to focus their training on
It's a sword, it symbolizes what swords symbolizes. It symbolizes what knights and samurais symbolized. Done.
+Goliath Online the penis doesn't perfectly describe "random and messy like a blaster"?
All this 'swords are penis's' is just stupid feminist propaganda.
The only weapon ever in history to resemble an actual penis is a bollock dagger and even then it's also been called a kidney dagger and is because of the design of the guard and is actually depicting testicles rather than a penis since historically testicles made a man a man and historically people could be castrated for crimes and thus were 'unmanned' being that they cannot have children anymore.
Good lord how many people do you have on your video making team? You post videos so often!
more Star Wars Symbolism please
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Another theory about Mace’s Light Saber says, the color is purple because he taps into his dark side (shatter point) while battling his opponents. Mix red and blue together and you get purple.
also the crystals do come with there own color before a person uses it, that's why jedi consolars primarily used Green, Jedi Guardians used blue, jedi sentials used yellow/orange, purple if for gray force users that use both the light and dark side, and Sith Red Crystals are synthetic not grown naturally
Palpatine wasn't Naboo's senator at the time of ROTS, he was the Supreme Chancellor.
Totally great video, I really liked this. I think there's a great follow-up via Star Wars: Rebels treatment of the darksaber! If you're interested in history, legacy, cycles of violence and ultimately how lightsabers reflect the user (even users with no force sensitivity) then it's essential viewing--also super well animated!
Anakin built his lightsaber for durability, and offensive flurries meant for war. It wasnt one for defense but for attacking. This can also be seen in his fighting style, aggressive, and awaiting to strike, and push forqard not be struck, and overcome an offensive flurry
4:30 Damn you, Freud!
That's it. So now I know who rey's parent are. This is great❤️
The presenters voice is eloquent and beautiful.
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Did the lore of lightsabers change? It used to be a feature of the crystal. Kyber crystals could be blue or green, but there were other crystals that could be used. Red was a feature of the synthetic crystals that the Sith favor.
No wonder I am more comfortable and calm around green green is my childhood color still my favorite I am naturally wise even though I'm young I'm only 28 years old but wisdom like a old noble elder in spirit
thats all they touched base on was ideology! lightsabers dont choose the wielder its the Kyber crystals. and each color (jedi only) classifies ones rank and status within the Order. Knights use Blue (and can well in to Master-hood) , Sentinels use Green ( I should know i was one when i was with the Order) and Vanguards use Yellow ,some like Master Windu use Purple ( little known fact Yoda was a Sith at some point and Windu was and still is a Revenite put in place on the Counsel to keep Yoda in place) now Blue, Green, Yellow, and yes Purple are natural crystals, Red, Orange and Crimson ( like the False Emperor) are Unnatural and grown in a lab. thank you for your time
beautiful narrate, I love that!
In that moment, I don't think Luke anticipated the Emperor shooting force lightning from his fingers. He's still a warrior knight, not a martyr.