CT Darth Vader unmasked in ROTJ

I still think it would've been hilarious if Luke removed the helmet only to reveal that Vader had no head. It'd be like something out of David Lynch.

 

Boy this takes me back

 

That first panel. When I first read it I could not stop laughing.

 

I got it from this page - http://www.theforce.net/swtc/injuries.html#head - but it doesn't say where it's from, and I can't remember off the top of my head. I seem to recall Lt.Cmdr.Thrawn or TOSCHESTATION posting it a while back.

And if David Lynch hadn't passed on ROTJ, it could have happened.

 

I thought it was a Star Wars Galaxy card, but it might be from Star Wars Chronicles... ? Anybody have it?

 

Had never seen this before those boards...That "non-union labour" one takes the cake.

Thanks God he eventually turned it down.
We'd have been traumatized forever...

 

We'd have been traumatized in a good way.

 

I think the whole idea was to see a more or less harmless-looking older man under the fearsome mask. It hits home exactly how human Vader really was. "More machine than man" is one view voiced in the movies, but at the unmasking I think it's the exact opposite. Again, full circle.

 

Oh Lordy! He needs some bactine or a band-aid or something. I have never seen that before. That is all sorts of messed-up, but in some ways very very cool.

 

Oh god I love Polish film posters. They make absolutely no goddamned sense, but they're awesome all the same.

 

Oh, I don't know, sometimes they make perfect sense...

 

That's one of my favorites.

 

I don't remember my first time, but I remember one time during one of my viewings of Return of the Jedi (sometime before Revenge of the Sith came out) the Anakin face reveal struck me with an extra dose of sadness because, as it happened, I couldn't help but flash back to the good-hearted child Anakin of The Phantom Menace the entire time.

 

Doesn't that Planet of the Apes poster kind of ruin the movie??

 

Polish film posters are more likely to just ruin your day than spoil the movie.





I'll stop now.

 

No keep posting!

 

German film posters are great too. I love the one for Bullitt. Makes absolutely no damn sense and is terrifying but also hilarious.

 

Okay, I actually snorted laughter at the one for Bullit.

 

Yeah I came across that one on Cracked.com a couple of years ago and cried tears of laughter.

 

I don't know if anyone else was seeing what I saw, but the guys face was pretty deformed.

 

You mean you were expecting Jabba to be made with CGI ?

 

According to our old friend zombie, this pic was made during the development of ROTJ - http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/visualdevelopmentofdarthvader.html

It seems to be inspired by discussions about Vader from ESB. A quote from Irvin Kershner in the Annotated Screenplays:

Apparently the second draft of ESB suggested he was a mutant, having been hurled down a nuclear reactor shaft, rather than falling into a volcano.