Yes, but that was before Kenobi turned him into the Six Million Dollar Sith. His artificial limbs and being 20 years older are bound to slow him down a bit regardless of his Force abilities.It was established in the clone wars that Skywalker was the general who always led his clones into battle from the front. That was why his 501st were so devoted to him.
Obviously I can't speak for anyone else, but I went into Rogue One having avoided as much information as possible. I watched one of the trailers once just to get a "feel" for it, but otherwise entered the theater spoiler-free so I had no idea Tarkin would be in the movie.Leia was a little off, but I wonder how much of the Tarkin criticism is expectation. Did some go in knowing he would be in there and look specifically for cg tells?
I didn't mean to suggest that Chirrut was delusional or fooling himself. There seems to be a disconnect between the advance promotional material and the dialogue of the film re: Chirrut.
Everything I read ahead of time gave me (what I thought was) a pretty clear impression that there were no Jedi - more specifically, no Force-users in this film (except Vader, of course). That all these characters were (for lack of a better phrase) "ordinary folk", and we were seeing the war through that non-Force-user lens. And unless the Databank is playing cagey with their wording, when they say Chirrut "has no Force abilities" - period - then I am left thinking that he's not Force-sensitive, but rather a fervent devotee of the Force.
But then his quote from Eadu seems to contradict that.
So I see four possibilities:
1.) He is Force-sensitive, with the ability to sense the Force but just cannot use it. If so, odd that the databank would leave that latter part out.
2.) He is FS and could have used the Force, but was never picked up by the Jedi as a child and trained.
3.) He is FS and does use the Force through his fighting skills.
4.) He is not FS, and just a fervent Force devotee who also happened to hone his other senses (without a Force-assist) to compensate for his blindness, á la the martial art movie archetype. And maybe he can't sense the Force directly, but has learned to pick up cues from his environment when the Force is or has been "in action" nearby. Like, he can sense everything interacting with the Force, like water reacts when a ship moves through it. Even though Chirrut can't see the ship, he can tell its size, length, speed, etc. by the wake it leaves in the water.
I am cool with any of the above, but I am guessing that the canon answer is #4.
As for Tarkin - see if you can find anyone who noticed that he was CGI and didn't already know that walking in.
I had responded to someone else's post about this in this thread with a long explanation, but I'll give you the short one based on cannon, novels, and guidebooks. Chirrut is a Force Sensitive, not a force user. Force sensitives can still see and feel the force around them, force users can see and feel the force around them, but can actually use the force when they want. Some "Force Sensitive" were still employed by the Jedi as Temple guards, I.e. Baze and Chirrut both being Temple guards on Jedha, and Chirrut actually commenting at one point that Baze used to be their most devoted guard. So they can both see and feel the force, and they understand how it works, but they can not impose their will on the force, or get it to bend to their wills like a force user can.
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I think it's up to viewer interpretation whether the Force was making blaster bolts miss him, or if he was just lucky. But the "when a man is about to kill" thing shows definite Force sensitivity, IMO.
I had no idea there would be a cgi Tarkin, but I immediately got the video game feeling when I saw him. At times it started to pass, but every time he and Krennic had a shot/reverse-shot scene, it became very noticeable again.As for Tarkin - see if you can find anyone who noticed that he was CGI and didn't already know that walking in.
The CGI Tarkin probably got as much screen time & revealing shots in RO as he did in ANH. That is what I call passing the test.
. He would have been a kid or maybe a baby (not 100% sure) around the fall of the Jedi.
Well aside from the Kyber she wears around her neck, and telling Jyn to trust in the Force, in Catalyst we get her thoughts about the Force and the Jedi. She seems very connected.
The Force is strong with us!My buddy, who is a very casual Star Wars fan, had no clue Tarkin wasn't real. A lot of people aren't as in tune with this stuff as we are.
My buddy, who is a very casual Star Wars fan, had no clue Tarkin wasn't real. A lot of people aren't as in tune with this stuff as we are.
I believe Lyra Erso was a force sensitive too.
5. There was such a HUGE presence of the Alliance when they showed up on Scarif because they knew what was at stake. This makes the final scenes in ANH feel underwhelming now. Where was that fleet on the final Death Star attack? That whole room of Alliance dignitaries and generals before Rogue One took on the mission, why the hell werent they on Yavin for the final showdown? It almost seemed odd now at the End Game that Leia and 4 other old guys are the only ones overseeing the attack on the Death Star that ALL OF THIS lead up to.
My buddy didn't know tarkin was CGI.The CGI animators can't win once the audience knows a human face is CGI.
Disney could have publicly said that Leia would be CGI in this movie but secretly used a 1977 shot. People would have ripped apart the "bad CGI" just as much for one thing or another.
If we could see the new CGI Leia shot compared next to a real frame of ANH, I wouldn't be surprised if the makeup job looked more overdone in the real footage.
As for Tarkin - see if you can find anyone who noticed that he was CGI and didn't already know that walking in.
The CGI Tarkin probably got as much screen time & revealing shots in RO as he did in ANH. That is what I call passing the test.