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Pay Attention You Must: George Lucas Explains Why Yoda Talks Like That
'Star Wars' creator George Lucas explained the origins of Yoda's distinct speech pattern, saying it was a way to get audiences to pay attention.
George Lucas broke down the origins of Yoda’s “very distinctive way of talking” at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival last week. Lucas was asked about Yoda’s particular patter, which often found the character doing away with typical sentence structure and essentially delivering his heady insights and mighty koans backwards. Yoda first appearance in the Star Wars universe came in The Empire StrikesBack, when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) seeks out the Jedi Master to learn the ways of the Force.
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