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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Hot Flatus on 29 November, 2020, 07:12:39 am

Title: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Hot Flatus on 29 November, 2020, 07:12:39 am
Dave Prowse, 85 apparently
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: TheLurker on 29 November, 2020, 08:07:48 am
Far more importantly. RIP, "The Green X Code Man"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR7_Bz9fIPA
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Hot Flatus on 29 November, 2020, 08:11:19 am
I still think they should have used Prowse's voice for Vader.

That higher-pitched-than-you-expect tone, slightly camp West Country accent,  all filtered through the metallic clang effect.

Would have been far scarier.
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Jurek on 29 November, 2020, 09:21:30 am
He used to frequent the gym just down the road from Borough High Street station.
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 November, 2020, 10:55:01 am
The Curse of HMHB claims another victim :'(. He was namechecked in “Sponsoring The Moshpits”.
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: fuzzy on 29 November, 2020, 02:41:28 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 29 November, 2020, 08:11:19 am
I still think they should have used Prowse's voice for Vader.

That higher-pitched-than-you-expect tone, slightly camp West Country accent,  all filtered through the metallic clang effect.

Would have been far scarier.

"Luke moi luver- oi am yer father"
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2020, 02:50:23 pm
Did he ever get the tray?
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: ElyDave on 29 November, 2020, 07:01:55 pm
Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 29 November, 2020, 02:41:28 pm
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 29 November, 2020, 08:11:19 am
I still think they should have used Prowse's voice for Vader.

That higher-pitched-than-you-expect tone, slightly camp West Country accent,  all filtered through the metallic clang effect.

Would have been far scarier.

"Luke moi luver- oi am yer father"

Lursh!
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 November, 2020, 08:36:46 am
"Ah, Princess Leial Organal the rebel"
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 December, 2020, 02:03:18 pm
(https://i2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article4756129.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_ZE_BRI_021220ColstonVader_03.jpg)
On the ex-Colston plinth.
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Hot Flatus on 02 December, 2020, 02:45:04 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 02 December, 2020, 02:03:18 pm
(https://i2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article4756129.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_ZE_BRI_021220ColstonVader_03.jpg)
On the ex-Colston plinth.

Yeah....err....not sure we should be celebrating this man.

Very checkered history.

Have you checked out his Wikipedia page?
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 December, 2020, 03:20:49 pm
Yebbut... you wouldn't notice it from a usual angle... look at that cod piece! Or is it incontinence pants?
Title: Re: RIP Darth Vader
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2020, 02:37:59 pm
So hard, even the Sarlacc couldn't digest him.