Reveals Why Yoda Talks Like That, George Lucas Does

There’ve been so many questions Star Wars followers have requested over time. And in the end, one in every of them is: “Why does Yoda speak like that?”

Since his debut in Empire Strikes Again, the previous Jedi Grasp has spoken backwards—”How are you doing?” for anybody else is “Doing, how are you?” to him. George Lucas was requested about Yoda’s peculiar speech patterns throughout a latest anniversary screening for Empire, and his reply? “I had to determine a technique to get folks to really pay attention, particularly 12-year-olds.”

He went on to elucidate that since Yoda is a thinker for Luke, the way in which he spoke needed to really feel important. “When you converse common English, folks gained’t pay attention that a lot,” he continued. “But when he had an accent, or it’s actually laborious to grasp what he’s saying, they deal with what he’s saying.”

That’s a extremely attention-grabbing reply, and it’s definitely an efficient selection; how many people on the market have a Yoda impression that will get his voice and mannerisms down? Now, if solely we knew whether or not this fashion of talking is particular to all of Yoda’s species—regardless of the hell it’s referred to as, whose ranks at present embrace Yaddle (RIP) and Grogu—or how he realized to talk got here from whoever raised him. And if it’s the previous, there’s one different query to ask: what is going to Grogu sound like when he inevitably talks?

[via Variety]

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