The Darth Vader Mask – Still Extremely Popular 22 Years Later!
Darth Vader was one of the central characters from the Star Wars trilogy that started back in May 1977. Since then he has become a worldwide pop culture phenomenon and is now probably one of the most popular “Dark Side” heroes.
Vader is one of the most infamous iconic villains in film history, and has been listed as the third greatest movie villain on the American Film Institute list, that’s really saying something!
In the trilogy he is depicted as a fearsome cyborg who is the ultimate supreme commander of the brutal and greatly feared Galactic Empire.
When I was growing up, some of my friends also had a Darth Vader mask. That was over 20 years ago, but I still remember it very clearly.
My friends were very into the Star Wars trilogy, and they would often have fake sword fights in the backyard using tree branches as swords. Even though Darth Vader was deemed the bad guy in the movie he was still immensely popular with kids.
Today, the Darth Vader masks that you can buy are of much better quality, and the sound effects are now very real indeed.
When we were kids we had to make our own sound effects! Though the sound effects of the new Darth Vader mask sound very much like James Earl Jones (he’s the guy who provided all the Vader voice in all 3 of the movies), I still wonder if we had more fun using our own voice instead. It made us use own imaginations instead of supplying the
noises themselves for us.
The popularity of the Star Wars Trilogy has initiated other media releases such as books, television series, video games and comic books.
This exposure has made the popularity of Darth Vader into what it is today. It becomes most obvious at on October 31st when many kids wear masks for Halloween (and adults too!) and it’s obvious that they are still, even today, very eager to wear the mask of the supreme leader of the Dark Side!
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