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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: George Lucas Finally Reveals Why Yoda Talks Backwards · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Anybody with even a half decent Yoda impersonation knows that
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Speaker 2: there are two must haves in your arsenal to nail
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Speaker 2: the pine sized Jedi master, that gravelly high pitched voice
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Speaker 2: and the ability to speak backwards. Take one of his
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Speaker 2: famous quotes for example, difficult to see. Always in motion
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Speaker 2: is the future. But if you ever ask yourself why
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Speaker 2: Yoda speaks backwards, the only man who knows for sure
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Speaker 2: is George Lucas. The creator revealed his reasoning to a
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Speaker 2: crowd at the TCM Classic Film Festival, saying, if Yoda
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Speaker 2: spoke regular English, people wouldn't listen that much. But if
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Speaker 2: a character has an accent or it's really hard to
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Speaker 2: understand and they really focus on what he's saying. Yoda
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Speaker 2: is basically the philosopher of Star Wars. I had to
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Speaker 2: figure out a wait for people to listen, especially twelve
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Speaker 2: year olds. George Lucas there on his mission to get
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Speaker 2: kids to pay attention, and well it worked. On the
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Speaker 2: forty fifth anniversary of his debut and the Empire strikes back,
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Speaker 2: Yoda is as popular as ever.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,