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Originally posted by: jimbo
Never heard that before. I assume they don't do all those moves because of the technological inferiority of the time.
No, I wouldn't blame technological limits. Hong Kong movies could do that with shoestring budgets, back in the 70s. But that kind of fast-paced amazing action sequence wasn't "mainstream" in america cinema until the 90s, when the hong kong way of doing action sequences was "borrowed" by the american film industry. If GL wanted to make an action flick that didn't look "dated" or "boring", he had to do it that way. And just think about it: it would be laughable back in the 70s having Alec Guiness jumping and flying all over during his fight with Vader, but it's kinda "cool" and acceptable now.