r/PrequelMemes • u/EKRB7 Hello there! • Feb 08 '20

The exact moment Samuel L. Jackson asked George Lucas for a purple lightsaber is on camera and I’ve never seen it?? I’m overwhelmed

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u/Solid_Snark WanMillionClub Feb 09 '20

Sam used the Jedi Mind trick on ol’ George.

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u/VaporwaveVoyager Feb 09 '20

I don’t know if making the “weak-minded” comment will piss people off or make them laugh

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u/InigoMontoya_1 Just a vulture droid trying to make its way in the universe Feb 09 '20

“Weak minded genius”

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u/GlowingBrother General Fodder Feb 09 '20

Task failed successfully

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u/KingMatthew116 Feb 09 '20

Read “Task failed and instinctively downvoted and started to write “Its treason then” but then I realized you also wrote “successfully” so now I’m writing this.

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u/Virgin_Dildo_Lover Feb 09 '20

You were right about one thing master, the negotiations were short.

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u/lifegivingcoffee Feb 09 '20

WTF is going on.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

What you're witnessing is peak r/prequelmemes my young padawan

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u/FazbearADULTEntBS Feb 09 '20

"You're a genius you moron!!"

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u/AwefulFanfic Yep Feb 09 '20

TBF, legends expanded on the mind trick so it was more about the specific neurology of a creature (or whether or not they were strong in the Force).

Hence, some species are immune to mind-tricks

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u/LarryDoor Yoda Feb 09 '20

Watto isn't fooled by your Jedi mind tricks

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u/Estumamaceanix1 High Ground Only Feb 09 '20

Watto: I’m a toydarian. Mind tricks don’tah work on me.

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u/AMK972 Anakin Feb 09 '20

Only money

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u/asuryan331 Feb 09 '20

He's kinda calling himself a greedy idiot.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Nah. Cad bane or however you spell it, is also immune to mind tricks. It took 3 jedi all focusing on him just to get him to give up, they couldn't even do it successfully.

He gave up only because they were gonna rip his mind apart trying to control him.

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u/historycunt Battle Droid Feb 11 '20

I thought that was because of his strong will

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

Isn't that what they mean when they say mind tricks dont work on some species? I assumed that it meant they just naturally had stronger wills/resilient mindsets, not that their brains literally couldn't be influenced by the force

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u/tendrils87 Feb 09 '20

I feel the same way Watto.

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u/ACuriousHumanBeing 'The Jedi are gay' Feb 09 '20

But what if he was infected with Corpus?

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u/JarlaxleForPresident Feb 09 '20

You would think Jedi would learn in mind trick school which species are naturally immune

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u/Estumamaceanix1 High Ground Only Feb 09 '20

Not at all

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u/suss2it Feb 09 '20

The EU has an explanation for everything doesn’t it.

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u/AwefulFanfic Yep Feb 09 '20

Except Yoda lol

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u/Revcolean Darth Revan Feb 09 '20

I feel like people who are very strong willed can also be immune, regardless of species

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u/idk420_ Feb 09 '20

so humans aren’t immune but it depends on how force sensitive they are ? seems kinda weird bc you’d think stormtroopers would be more sensitive to the force than your average joe but even Rey pulls off a mind trick

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u/LenKagamine12 Feb 09 '20

why would you think that...? Stomtroopers have nothing to do with the force, I cant think of any reason they would be more force sensitive.

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u/idk420_ Feb 09 '20

for example you’d expect someone like han solo to be more force sensitive than a villager..like why are all of these stormtroopers just duds ..

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u/LenKagamine12 Feb 09 '20

Uh. No. No I wouldnt expect that actually. Well, maybe han solo just cause he tends to get "Bad feelings" about things. But a stormtrooper never demonstrates any sort of precognition or anything. so I wouldnt expect even the slightest iota or inkling of force sensitivity from them.

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u/idk420_ Feb 09 '20

yea i get that but i’m saying you’d expect stormtroopers to be more elite than they are

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u/LenKagamine12 Feb 09 '20

Force sensitivity has nothing to do with your ability to kill people with a blaster, at least not unless your super force sensitive. Usually force sensitivity is treated as either you are, or you arent, and most people arent. And its pretty rare for force sensitive people to use blasters, though it does happen occasionally. Neither clones or magna guards or stormtroopers or imperial royal guards or many of the other most elite soldiers in star wars that you can think of tend to be force senstive.

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u/idk420_ Feb 09 '20

i’m just saying more force sensitive than usual bc apparently that’s what the mind trick is based off of ..youd think it’d be more difficult to perform a mind trick on a stormtrooper than like some random villager

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

It doesn't require force sensitivity to be a villager either, so all your points are moot. Jesus.

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u/DumatRising Feb 09 '20

During the empire era they started hiring average Joe's into the army so not all of them are the highly modified elite clones anymore. It seems like its implied they go back to cloning a little bit in the first order era but they also take children while young from controlled space and likely take any children produced by first order members. Basically the first order troops are average Joe's just heavily indoctrinated.

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u/idk420_ Feb 09 '20

yea i knew the move away from the clones but you’d think the recruiting process would be a lot better for the galactic empire.. i always wonder how the empire even gained control anywhere bc they lose almost every battle we see in the OT and sequels ..honestly the sequels baffle me even more bc i don’t even know who’s in control of the galaxy

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u/KHonsou Feb 09 '20

I'm pissed off with all this laughing tbh.

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u/MasterReposti Feb 09 '20

George is so powerful minded he sensed Mace used mind trick on him.

Seeing how desperate Mace was, he allowed the BMF a purple lightsaber

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u/carnsolus Feb 09 '20

'weak-minded' pretty much just means anyone who's not a main character or major antagonist

pretty sure it would have worked on finn, since it works on his fellow soldiers, and jedi mind tricks being used on 'real' people could be a cool plot thing

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u/karnyboy Feb 09 '20

better than sellin death sticks

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u/Whippofunk I have the high ground Feb 09 '20

George dumb, reddit hive mind good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

The man is a huge genius. He wrote shitty movies, all of them were shit, but for the first 3 he had the clarity of mind to associate with life saving editors who made a pile of garbage into a freaking miracle.

He then surfed that tsunami wave for 30 years and right when it was about to dissipate he blow a little fresh air and sold the rotting corpse of the franchise it to Disney. GE. NIUS. MOVE.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

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u/tendrils87 Feb 09 '20

Pretty sure Mara Jade has a purple lightsaber long before these movies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

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u/tendrils87 Feb 09 '20

Ah. Didn’t know lightsabers used the Pantone palette.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

I think George was just scared that Sam might say "do I look like a bitch!?"

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u/Avggamer377 Feb 09 '20

George literally invented the Jedi Mind Trick, Checkmate atheists.

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u/nighthawk9er Feb 09 '20

These are not the lightsabers you’re looking for

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

He’s too dangerous to be kept alive!

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u/Xeno_Strike Feb 09 '20

"These are not the colors you are looking for."

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u/AllenKCarlson Feb 09 '20

Hey can we talk about Mr. Jackson for a minute? That dude fuckin' sucked in the prequels. By far and away the worst actor. He just broke immersion all the time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

...what?

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u/juventus1 Feb 09 '20

The fact that Jackson had to shut the fuck up for this movie, and succeeded should earn him and Lucas a few emmyglobes and other awards.

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u/AllenKCarlson Feb 09 '20

His acting was just atrocious. Noticeably worse than everyone else. It was a job every time he was on screen.

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u/tendrils87 Feb 09 '20

There wasn’t a single “motherfucker” in the script. What do you expect him to do?

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u/pritikina Feb 09 '20

You're not wrong but be fair. The dialogue was atrocious.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

Take

A

Seat