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Silly Obi-Wan ANH question

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I was thinking this today about the part when Obi-Wan scares away the sand people. Does he actually make the Krayt dragon sound vocally (or with some sort of instrument)...or is the sound all in the sand people's heads, i.e. he uses a Jedi mind trick to fool them.
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No idea, but an interesting question I'd like to hear opinions on. I don't think there's a definitive answer unless you want to go to the novelisation and regard that as fact. Whatever that may be I've never read it.

For many years as a kid I always thought that sound/shriek was part of the score.

The same way in horror movies where there is a loud boom in the score after a lull to try to scare you.

I'm not going to mention how the SE noise sucks ass. Oh wait.........

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Good question. I think it's a jedi mind trick.

Originally posted by: see you auntie


I'm not going to mention how the SE noise sucks ass. Oh wait.........

What about the SE? (I try to avoid watching it if at all possible).

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For the 2004 dvd the noise was changed. Why I don't know.

I also think the best guess is it's a mind trick. But for me Kenobi was always enough of a bad ass to scare them off himself Arms flailing like a crazy old man.

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See I never thought it was a jedi mind trick or Kenobi would have never wanted to get out of there so quickly, as he says they will come back in larger numbers. I think it was some howl that scares them off that he probably learned from living on Tatooine for 20 years. I mean the guys got to wait 20 years for Luke to grow up and has ALOT of spare time, so he learns the force ghost trick and figures out how to scare sandpeople!
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Yeah I always assumed he was using his vocal chords (as opposed to a mind trick). I agree with CO, he was stuck there "a very long time" and would have picked up on a few calls of the native fauna for sure.
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I've always assumed he was vocalising the sound, perhaps with augmentation from the force. I'm sure he has his hands up to his mouth like he's doing an owl call, though it's a long time since I've watched any of the OT.

And I thought the original OT calling sound was better than the 2004 rendition, I assume because I grew up with the original versions. Nostalgia is powerful, don't mess with it! (Waaay too late)
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Much like he was able to generate a noise when slipping past the stormtroopers on the Death Star, so I reckon he'd have used the Force to help generate the shriek and possibly implant the image of a Krayt dragon moving towards them, hence the wibbly wobbly movement...
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Originally posted by: HotRod
And after 20 years, why does Obi-Wan still dress like a Jedi? And where'd he get the Jedi robes from?


I thought that Order 66 also destroyed the Coruscant's JC Penny's so the Jedi that did survive would be out of luck with any new clothes.
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His outfit was not particularly unusual for Tatooine. He probably just bought the garments in a town somewhere.

For a long time, I had believed that the shriek came from the tuskens because they were startled that they had been discovered.
It think it makes a lot of sense that Obi-Wan would have used The Force to 1) augment his vocal cords to make the scream more realistic and intimidating, 2) strike fear into the tuskens.
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In the 2004 SE they gave Obi Wan the call of the Boga, that lizard thing from ROTS. Which makes little sense seeing as the sand people wouldn't know what that is and would be less plausible to clear out from Obi Wan imitating it, whereas they would instintly recognize the Krayt dragon call and know that they had better clear out or be eaten.
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As far as I know, the noise didn't become a "Krayt dragon call" until one of the West End Games source books made it that way back in the larte 80's.
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
As far as I know, the noise didn't become a "Krayt dragon call" until one of the West End Games source books made it that way back in the larte 80's.


I'm not sure about that. I (think) I knew it was a Krayt dragon call long before playing the Star Wars RPG. I must have found about it either in the Marvel comics, the ghost written novelisation or one of many specials in newspapers and on TV at the time.
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I thought I remembered it being in the 1976 novel that bears Lucas' name as author. I could be mistaken though. In any case its clearly a wildlife call the Tusken Raiders recognize. The Boga call ought to have prompted a "was that me or was that you?" exchange of glances.
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This is where I wish the text of the novel was online.
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Well I have the novel. It says first of all that Artoo heard it too, and actually specifies that this means it wasn't "an auditory delusion" but a real physical sound. In the novel Kenobi does it again, after he says the sand people might be back--to which Luke recognises it as a Krayt dragon call.

From pg 72 of the 1994 (?) reprint:

"...The sand people are easily startled but they'll soon be back and in greater numbers. A landspeeders not a prize readily conceeded, and after all, Jawas they're not."
Placing both hands over his mouth in a peculiar fashion, Kenobi inhaled deeply and let out an unearthly howl that made Luke jump. "That ought to keep any laggards running for a while yet," the old man concluded with satisfaction.
"That's a Krayt dragon call!" Luke gasped in astonishment. "How'd you do that?"
"I'll show you sometime, son. It's not too hard. Just takes the right attitude, a set of well-used vocal chords, and a lot of wind."
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Thanks, Mr. K. I think I was thinking of the connection of the Krayt dragon name and the bones that 3PO saw in the Dune Sea.
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I always wondered why Obi-Wan's lightsaber briefly turned into a twig when he fought Darth Vader towards the end.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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I always just joked that his batteries chose just that moment to die.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I always just joked that his batteries chose just that moment to die.


Maybe its like that old commercial for energizer, where Vader is threating to cut down the Energizer bunny with his lightsaber, and then it fizzles out, and he takes out some cheap brand of batteries that just died.

Lesson Learned: One should always use Energizer batteries in a lightsaber.
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Yeah, I was actually thinking of that commercial when I wrote that post. Man, I loved that commercial. I also loved the one with the Wicked Witch of the West where she conjures fire that sets off the sprinkler system and kills her. Oh, that crazy bunny!

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