Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Yoda Meditations

Today I'd like to explore Yoda or more accurately, his voice.

You know when people do the Yoda voice, and their voice breaks because they can't keep it up? Is there a name for that?

Back in 2000 the brilliant Nintendo 64 game "Perfect Dark" shamelessly imitated Yoda's voice for one of it's key alien characters.  The Yoda style voice however, can be heard to fail on a few occasions during the games cut-scenes.

Can you even be said to be doing an impression of Yoda?  For instance, If I do an impression of the primeminister, I'm doing an impression of a real person (unfortunately) he is the real one, I'm the fake. But Yoda isn't real, he's voiced by actor Frank Oz in the movies and Tom Kane in the games.  

He is a puppet in the old movies and CGI in the games and newer movies.  I wonder if Frank Oz hates Tom Kane? I mean, who is Tom Kane? Anyway, is your version of Yoda any less real than Frank's or Tom's (There is a Peter as well, but forget him) 

Does the fact that these guys are contracted to do the Yoda voice mean they are the "real" voices of Yoda.  What if 10 people were employed to do the voice? Are they all the real voice too?

2 comments:

  1. Lil’ Side‑Eye6 May 2026 at 09:06

    Bruv, this is some serious madness right now. You’re moving wild — you alright, fam?

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  2. Andrea Complotto6 May 2026 at 09:36

    Yoda is great. I don't know anything about games but I love the original films! I detest the new ones. Han Solo killed by his own son? What the hell?! Luke is a crying whiny little b****! It's just symptomatic of what they're doing to all the franchises. They are gutting them from the inside out! They want to destroy our history and demoralize us, and crush us and take all the fight out of us. I don't bother going to the cinema anymore.

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