Qual 'dedo' foi o BB-8 apontando para cima?

Algumas pessoas da Light e da Magia Industrial discutiram o processo por trás da animação naquele momento, em uma entrevista com a MTV:

“We did several different prototype ideas of what that could look like, and we had various amounts of metal and plastic on there,” added Patrick Tubach, another ILM visual effects supervisor for the film. “One of the difficult things with animating something like that is you have to be very careful that it doesn’t look like he’s giving you some other sort of gesture! We moved all the pieces around to make sure it was very clearly a thumbs up over any other kind of ’salute.'”

Por isso, é para ser um polegar para cima.

A romancização do filme afirma explicitamente que, de fato, pretende-se up "de BB-8

“Doing the best I can down here.” Rey vanished again. As soon as she was out of sight, the grateful Finn gave BB-8 a thumbs-up. The droid responded by shooting out a welding torch in imitation of the human’s gesture.

Assim como o Anual de Star Wars de 2017

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Assim como a edição Star Wars: absolutamente tudo o que você precisa saber, atualizado e expandido

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O roteiro original é um pouco mais ambíguo, mas a intenção parece bastante claro

Finn: Yeah, the Ileenium system, that's the one -- get us there as fast as you can.

A smiling Finn gives BB-8 a THUMBS UP. BB-8 quickly extends his WELDING TORCH and TURNS IT UPWARD, then retracts it.

O mestre de efeitos especiais do filme, Neal Scanlan, confirmou explicitamente em uma entrevista com a MTV.com que ele pretendia ser um 'positivo'.

"I think the reaction that BB-8 has to Finn would have been a practical effect that we shot on the Milennium Falcon, but the reaction to the thumbs up is something that definitely came later in the day," Scanlan said.

"That thumbs up moment is exactly that," confirmed Guyett. "I think it’s a real BB-8 and then we inserted a CG panel and its arm that came out. So all of his tools, if you like, when he fires his wires and he does that stuff, that’s sort of digital CG."

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Eu sempre achei que foi um sinal de positivo. O BB-8 acha que Finn é honesto sobre quem ele é, e o BB-8 respeita sua honestidade de alguma forma e decide que ele pode ser um cara legal, afinal.