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Darth Vader – Dagobah
Darth Vader – Dagobah: Taking the form of Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, this spirit is the embodiment of the dark side of the Force. It dwells in a cave on the swamp-covered planet of Dagobah. Although defeated by Luke Skywalker in combat, its unmasked face revealed that Luke has yet to master the ways of the Force and become a Jedi. – from the Jedi Fact File, Darth Vader – Dagobah
Character Background: Darth Vader – Dagobah: When Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back premiered in May of 1980, Darth Vader’s character was seen by most fans as the personification of the Galactic Empire’s evil. Clad in a life-sustaining suit of armor complete with a Nazi-style helmet and a skull-like breath mask, Vader had been established as “a young Jedi…until he turned to evil” and had helped Emperor Palpatine kill most of the Jedi Order, including, according to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker’s father Anakin.
Although Vader had been impressive enough in Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope, the Dark Lord of the Sith became a more powerful screen presence in Empire. It is his obsessive pursuit of Luke that drives most of the action in the second installment of the Classic Trilogy, and the screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan gave Vader more nuance and menace than in A New Hope.
Although Empire’s most indelible scene in which Vader appears is the “reveal” sequence in which the fallen-Jedi-turned-Sith Lord says No, Luke. I am your father, perhaps the most puzzling one (at least in 1980) was the Dark Lord’s spirit form’s short but terrifying appearance in that tree-cave on Dagobah:
INTERIOR: DAGOBAH – TREE CAVE
Luke moves into the almost total darkness of the wet and slimy cave. The youth can barely make out the edge of the passage. He sees a lizard crawling up the side of the cave and a snake wrapped around branches of a tree. Luke takes a deep breath, then pushes deeper into the cave.
The space widens around him, but he feels that rather than sees it. It is very quiet here.
Then Darth Vader appears across the blackness. They cross lightsabers, but Luke parries perfectly and slashes at Vader with his sword.
Vader is decapitated. His helmet-encased head flies from his shoulders as his body disappears into the darkness. The helmet containing Vader's head spins and bounces and finally stops. For an instant it rests on the floor, then it explodes. The black helmet and breath mask fall away to reveal…Luke's head.
Across the space the standing Luke stares at the sight, wide-eyed in terror. – Brackett and Kasdan, The Empire Strikes Back screenplay
Now that all six Star Wars films have been released and we now know that “Darth Vader” is really Anakin Skywalker’s Sith alter ego, at the time there was much debate about what that scene really meant. Was this Yoda’s way of chiding Luke for taking his weapons into the cave? Did it mean that Luke could potentially be seduced by the dark side as Vader had been? Was Luke fighting himself, or was there a darker, deeper significance to this Force-derived mirage? (If you listen to George Lucas’ commentary on the Empire DVD, the answer is yes to all these.)
Darth Vader – Dagobah: The Figure:
In 2000, Hasbro decided to abandon its one-film product line based on Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace and return to its all-encompassing approach that would combine action figures based on characters from both trilogies. Naming the new collection Star Wars: Power of the Jedi, for two years Hasbro released several waves of figures and vehicles with new packaging and interesting variations on previously released characters’ replicas.
Darth Vader – Dagobah is one of many variants of a 3.75-inch figure that was first made in 1978 by Kenner. Considering that Vader’s armor underwent only very subtle upgrades throughout the Classic Trilogy, you’d figure that there wouldn’t be too many versions of the Sith Lord’s action figure, yet both Kenner and Hasbro have issued various figures, each slightly different from the other – there seems to be a Sith Lord action figure for every occasion (Darth Vader with Lightsaber and RemovableCape, Darth Vader with CommTech Chip and Interrogation Droid, Darth Vader [Emperor's Wrath] Darth Vader TIE FighterCockpit Gunnery Station…there's even a Darth Vader Complete Galaxy [Death Star]).
Though Darth Vader – Dagobah appears to be, at first glance, merely an upgraded version of 1998’s Darth Vader (with Lightsaber and Removable Cape), it is a more refined figure and has features that make it the first figure that allows collectors to recreate the eerie dark side apparition Luke confronts in the tree cave.
In the 2000 Power of the Jedi version, Vader's proportions are less bulky than the 1990s “removable cape” edition, and instead of being solid black with silver, red, and white detailing, the Dark Lord's armor and helmet are a spectral translucent gray, to suggest a surreal spirit-like appearance. The cape is, unlike most of the newer cloth accessories, made of the same material, but the sculpt accurately depicts the “flowing robes” effect.
The head is also removable and the helmet and breath mask can come off to reveal Luke's face. It's also translucent, and the lenses on the breath mask have an ominous-looking reddish tint, giving Darth Vader - Dagobah a distinctly menacing aspect.
As is usually the case with figures featuring the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader - Dagobah comes with a red-bladed lightsaber. Like most Jedi or Sith laser swords issued with Star Wars figures since the mid-Nineties, the “energy blade” is made of translucent plastic that allows light to pass through to simulate a glowing lightsaber effect. Also, the saber’s handle is nicely detailed; unlike the earlier Darth Vader with Lightsaber and Removable Cape figure’s all-black laser sword handle, Darth Vader – Dagobah has a more authentic silver and black handgrip. Furthermore, the figure's improved articulation allows Vader to hold it either one-handed or like a broadsword; I prefer the one-handed stance since it allows me to pose the figure as though he is also cocking his fist at any opponent in the vicinity.
Darth Vader - Dagobah, as all the figures of the 2000-2002 Power of the Jedi line, comes with a small booklet with role-playing stats and “facts” about the character. For example, its life form designation is Dark Side of the Force apparition, and the lightsaber blade can injure or even kill like its real counterpart.
Although the figure is nicely done, it does come apart very easily. Even older collectors are cautioned that the different components – the head, cape, and lightsaber – do come off Vader's body rather easily, and pieces can and sometimes do get lost.
As with all the Star Wars action figures, Hasbro recommends this toy for children 4 and up since the small parts pose a clear and present choking hazard, especially for children under 3 years.
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Behold Mel Gibson living down to his reputation. Earlier today Rick Sanchez highlighted Gibson in his ‘the list u don’t want 2 be on’ segment for a comment Gibson made to KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin during a press junket for his new movie Edge of Darkness (watch the video…Gibson is not a person you’d want to be stuck in a small room with). In the clip Rubin is trying to edge his way around asking Gibson whether he is worried how he will be received by the public in his first foray back into movies since going on a reported anti-Semitic tirade to cops after being pulled over for drunk driving back in 2006. Here’s the exchange:
Reporter: Some people are going to welcome you back, and some people are going to say you should never come back.
MG: Why
Reporter: Because of what happened before.
MG: What happened before?
Reporter: The remarks that were attributed to you.
MG: That were attributed to me that I didn’t necessarily make.
Reporter: Uh Huh
MG: But and I gather you have a dog in this fight.
Reporter: Pardon me?
MG: You have a dog in this fight? Or are you being impartial?
Reporter: You tell me. I’m trying to be impartial.
MG: Ok. Well I’m back. And I hope it works out. And I hope people will graciously accept me back.
It’s hard to impart the level of crazy sarcasm in that last sentence. And yes! Absolutely. Don’t you feel endeared to Mel Gibson now! Lordy. Who talks like that? Video below.
Thanks, But We Don't Want a Mel Gibson Comeback
Mel Gibson — the spasming and scandal-ridden one-time movie star — is poised to debut his first starring-role movie in eight years. Articles are being written about a Comeback! The questions is, do we really want Mel Gibson back?
No, actually, we don't.
Now, the whole comeback language might be a little premature, but GQ's Tom Carson certainly wants us to be prepared. As does The Telegraph. And Entertainment Tonight. And lots of other people! Assuming these folks are right, that Mel Gibson really is going to force himself back into the warm glow of movie stardom's gold-smelted spotlight, is this a good thing, like, at all?
Everyone's always all, “Let's divorce the artist's personal life from their art” and stuff, which makes some degree of sense to us, but still… Gibson's a royal, bigoted asshole isn't he? Sure his drunk-talk Jew-hating sugar-tits Escape From Moonshadows had nothing ostensible to do with whether or not we simply adored him in What Women Want, but aren't we tacitly endorsing someone's lifestyle choices (in this case, blotto Jew-hatery) by supporting their business? Lots of conflicted Hollywooders seem to ignore that conundrum in the case of someone like Roman Polanski, because sure he did a terrible Rape-Rape thing a hundred years ago, but he made The Pianist, which is about the Holocaust, so… all is movie-forgiven. The man isn't forgiven, really, but his art is allowed to transcend the person. (And then they give the person a raggedy Oscar. Sigh.) While we don't really agree with that rug-sweeping-under, we can sort of see where it's coming from. Shame to let true art go unseen because its creator is (or was) a bad person.
But in the case of Mel Gibson… well, he's not making capital-A Art, right? Sure The Passion of the Christ had a certain creative verve to it — that much lovingly orchestrated violence can't be created without some measure of artistic prowess — but it was also a fucking batshit insane movie to make. Same goes for Apocalypto, a bizarre fever dream about how everything in the jungle can kill you except the Conquistadors, who will kill you, but they will also save you with their precious non-heart-cutting-out Christianity. These kinds of aggressively brutal film experiments aren't the stuff that reap forgiveness, or at least earn an overlooking of the personal. They're unsettling feats of endurance cinema, less self-aware versions of Funny Games told on an epic scale. Only Michael Haneke is, like, intellectually insane. Gibson is just old-fashioned nuts.
And we've seen nothing recently that dissuades us from believing that Mel Gibson is a crazy person, one touched in the head by grim and operatic visions of celluloid violence and real-world Jewish warmongering. This makes him interesting, we suppose, but it makes him far from likable. And we are allowed to think that! We have enough evidence. Why would anyone really care about Mel Gibson as an actor anymore? Though he's newly sober (again), we're still haunted by bizarre chat show appearances like this one, in which he comes across as a stuttering, manic wreck. It's scary. And it's kind of sad. Who wants to watch a movie star who's reviled most of the time and shiveringly pitied every rare so often? We certainly don't.
Especially given that his movie choices don't seem to have changed much. He's working on a super-violent movie about vikings, which might be kind of awesome in a way (same way Apocalypto was awesome in its insanity), but knowing it's made by Gibson will probably infect the whole thing with that air of creepy menace that's surrounded him since Christ. His new acting movie, Edge of Darkness, is about an angry Boston cop who threatens people while investigating the slaying of his daughter. That sounds… angry! And it's called Edge of Darkness. Just add a : The Mel Gibson Story and you have a documentary.
The fact is Gibson makes us nervous. He has since Christ (maybe even before that, what with gay-hatin', or at least gay-not-likin', Braveheart and all). And his PCH escapades, followed by the fetishistically bloody Apocalypto, only sunk him even lower in the court of public opinion (or at least our opinion). A broodingly dark thriller isn't exactly the right way for him to convince us we'd misjudged him either. Nor is a gory movie about raping, pillaging vikings. Even an upcoming comedy, Beaver with Jodie Foster, is about a crazy man who talks to a hand puppet. Yikes! Too much of Gibson's personal life has bled into his work and vice versa. The fun-times Gibson of Lethal Weapon and Maverick is long gone. Even the pleasantly intense Gibson of something like Ransom is gone. All that's left is a jittery, scary shadow person that we don't want to see in movies anymore. It's too bad, but it's just what happened. The man is entitled to make movies if he wants, but we're not obligated to see them just because he gave us Bird on a Wire a million years ago.
At this point, he's a man without a case.
Photo of Gibson showing us he's a nice guy by working the phones for Haiti relief via Getty
Send an email to Richard Lawson, the author of this post, at richardl@gawker.com.
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