Ripplin said:
dark_jedi said:
which would crush the snow speeder even MORE when the weight of the AT-AT shifted onto that foot when the others start to move.

Now that is EXACTLY how I feel,whether it is putting "all" its weight on it or not,it is going to flatten,and in my opinion,it is putting all its weight on it,it is walking forward isn't it?

If the scene were to continue on, it would get more crushed as it started walking again, but it's pretty stationary at the time we see. It comes down and stays there motionless for a second or two. (it would be funny if it started rotating right and left, like it's squishing a bug) That leg would be slightly bent and the rest would be more or less straight.

That's something else; while the AT-ATs weren't exactly fast, the legs (and feet) still moved at a regular steady pace. So if you were to make the "foot stomp" scene consistent with the farther shots of AT-ATs moving, the upper part should be slowly swinging from right to left to indicate the upper leg moving while the other legs were picking up off the ground and moving forward. In this case, the upper area would slowly swing to the left, as we would see the foot not just crush more into the snow speeder with the initial impact, but drive further down into it in the later part of the shot (while Luke is on the ground) - granted, it is literally a second, but it would be nice/cool to see the close-up foot match the movement of the feet in the overall AT-AT body shots.

What you see in the movie is simply due to the limitations of 1980 FX work (they probably literally dropped the foot prop onto the snow speeder, which means the upper area where the leg connected to the foot probably didn't have anything to pivot with)