Why is the Duel Between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader So SLOW in A New Hope? #starwars

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Why is Obi-Wan’s duel with Darth Vader so much slower than their fights in the prequels or the Obi-Wan Kenobi series? This is a question I get all the time. People are always looking for an in-universe reason for these two titans of the Force to have a relatively toned down fight when compared to every other lightsaber duel. And we can make up reasons like Obi-Wan was simply older and Vader was toying with him, or Obi-Wan was buying time for Luke and others to escape. I do think those are valid points. But the truth is it was the very first lightsaber fight ever filmed. The props themselves were a work in progress. You can see cables running into Alec Guinness’s sleeve because the hope was that they would be able to generate a glow during filming and not have to be done in post-production. There were a lot of unknowns behind the scenes that affected how lightsabers were presented in this movie.