The "Duel on Mustafar" between Anakin and Obi-Wan was filmed (after a GREAT DEAL of practice) in REAL TIME as a practical swordfight between Hayden C. and Ewan M. That is some SERIOUS choreography.

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Escape from New York, the glider scene. It's '81, a year before Tron revolutionised CG and Carpenter has 1/3 of Tron's budget...so how did he pull off an absurdly sophisticated wireframe simulation?! It's actually a cardboard city painted matte black, lined with reflective tape and lit with UV.

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And Ray Park (who physically played Darth Maul) is an expert martial artist and also did the motion cap animation for Maul in the final season of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", so not surprising.

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The duel bit of lore that I love is that in Kenobi vs Maul they had to slow down the tape because REAL TIME LOOKED UNREAL. McGregor was that darned good.

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(By the way that duel also illustrates a swordfight truism: an inferior swordsman can hold off a superior one for a long time, as long as the inferior swordsman can *keep retreating*. Obi-Wan does a lot of backing up in that fight.)

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