A fan made film shows what the fight between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi in A New Hope might look like if it were re-imagined today. Why would this be important? Well, after seeing episode 3, whether you loved it or hated it, the intense and epic battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan was something for the ages since both of them were both young enough that the battle was able to take place on a grand scale and include the fluid movements that both men were capable of performing. Their back and forth battle near the end of the film was something that many fans and non-fans were talking about well after the movie had left theaters.
Now in the original film it would have been highly unreasonable to expect Alec Guinness to perform even half of the energetic movements that his younger counterpart did, and the actor in the Darth Vader suit probably had very limited movement on his own part. Plus the CG at that time was either non-existent or had yet to be fully explored to see how it could be applied to film. The point is that between the technology of the time and the actors that were put into the roles the battle simply wasn’t going to be anything close to what we’ve seen in the past several movies. The choreography wasn’t as great and the visual effects weren’t as great either since the idea of making this an epic fight was great on paper but much harder to accomplish in real life.
But thanks to the mythos of Star Wars Kenobi was one of the greatest Jedi Masters to ever come through the Order and had already accomplished great things before he made his way to Tatooine to deliver Luke to his aunt and uncle. He’d become a Jedi Master, a general in the Clone Wars, and he’d dispatched more than one opponent that had proven to be more than a match for many other individuals, including Jedi. He took out Darth Maul before he was even a fully-fledged knight, much to the consternation of many fans, and he even managed to take out a revived Maul for good on Tatooine when the dejected Sith turned up once again.
He faced down and defeated General Grievous as well, fending off four different lightsabers with such expertise that the general was forced to run when Kenobi had almost completely disarmed him. After all that a battle that saw him trade a few weak parries with his former student, who was also one of the strongest Jedi ever known, was kind of a letdown. Thankfully it set up a very interesting story arc that kind of made up for the weak showing, as Obi-Wan would continue to come back as a Force ghost and speak to Luke on occasion.
But the point is that the final fight between former student and master should have been something far more energetic and more violent than what actually happened. Maybe one day when those of us that remember Star Wars before it became what is now are in our sixties or seventies we’ll see a reboot, and things might be different.
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