STAR WARS

Action Kenobi

So there's an old man sneaking around on the Death Star in his bathrobe... A credit to his mentalist's skills that he isn't just rounded up. Or more proof that he has a contact on board. Regardless, his skills are impressive. We find him (theoretically) disabling the tractor beam, once more deftly operating equiptment that he's supposedly never seen before.

Here we get the only example that there are real people behind the stormtroopers masks:

First off, the officer says PLEASE. Holy shit. Dark times, indeed. The troopers who remain sound disinterested, clueless, and have a childlike fetish for machinery. In short, regular soldiers. They're shootin' the shit with each other while on duty. In all three movies, we never get to see Rebel grunts portrayed this way. Maybe ALL Rebel soldiers are just too darned serious all the time. Or maybe there's just no time to consider the rabble when all the attention has to be on the little princess and her merry band.

We're led to believe here that Kenobi is either using his hypnotic powers to make the troopers think they hear something, or (even less convincing) that he is moving something conveniently off screen telekinetically. Or, far more likely, he's simply flicking something down the corridor to create a distraction. Notice the screenplay describes Kenobi gesturing towards them AS they think they hear something. Even the people writing this piece of propaganda can't figure out what's supposed to be happening here.

Wizard my ass.