![]() His Wookiepedia entry is eight times as long as the Wikipedia entry on famed Dada sculptor Jean Arp. Davin Felth was the Stormtrooper who, in A New Hope, held up a little metal ring and said, “Look sir! Droids!” But fans couldn’t let him go unrewarded for this act, no, they had to give him a backstory that rivals that of Batman. Sometimes one of them talks, and you can identify them that way, or sometimes they wear a shoulder pad. ?The only way you can tell Stormtroopers apart is… well, you can’t. And how was this resource used in the film? He explained to guards that yes, they were the droids they were looking for.Ħ) Davin Felth, the Guy Who Said “Look, Sir! Droids!” Garindan was the greatest information gatherer of the age, and his info sold to the highest bidder. But you know what else? He’s rich! His name translates to “Blessed One”, “Burnt wood”, “dust from a windstorm”, “ugly”, and “toast” in five different languages (that don’t exist and that people un-related to movie-making have invented ). He has two scenes, one where he sees Luke, Han, etc, and one where he tells Stormtroopers that he saw Luke, Han, etc. Who was Garindan? He was the spy who sold out the heroes of A New Hope at Mos Eisley. ?Just the name his creators gave him originally shows that no one was meant to look too far into his backstory. But wait, there’s more! He’s the heir to a long lineage of religious bounty hunters! He shamed his family by leaving his home planet of Gand! He’s schizophrenic! He battled a combined force of Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, and Greedo to find an insane man, who then transferred his memories into a coral reef! He can hold his breath for extended periods of time! He joined the Rebellion and was secretly working for them the whole three seconds he was standing behind Vader in Empire! Gah! ![]() That’s really all the movie gives you, since all he does is stand there while Darth Vader walks in front of him. Zuckuss was one of the multiple bounty hunters that Darth Vader chose to pursue Han Solo. Wookiepedia also includes this gem: “Like most members of his species, Boushh had a fascination with technology of all sorts.” While counting his payment, Boushh was bitten by a hidden lizard (?) which distracted him enough to have his neck broken by his employer. Eventually he got greedy and demanded more money for a job. Wookiepedia details some of his more notable jobs, which included fighting alongside Jedi (every other person in the Star Wars universe is either a Jedi or a bounty hunter). But little did we know that Boushh existed prior to this, as a male bounty hunter with scars all over his face. Princess Leia dressed as the bounty hunter Boushh to convince Jabba the Hutt to release Han Solo. ?With Boushh, you get the backstory of a character that was only seen in the films when someone else dressed like him. ![]() After Jabba’s death, he opened a restaurant. Turns out that Malakili was once a circus performer who was sold to Jabba the Hutt after a circus-related accident, and then plotted to betray his boss to a rival mobster because Jabba planned to pit his rancor against a dragon who could kill it. If you didn’t look in the credits, you would barely know he was the Rancor Keeper. Malakili falls into that category, as his toy was released as “Rancor Keeper” and his only role in the film was to cry when Luke killed the Rancor. That’s why the toys were released with generic-yet-descriptive names like “Squid Head” and “Pruneface.” No one bothered to name them because they were really just set dressing that walked erect. ?Let’s get this straight right off the bat: The majority of Star Wars characters never got a name. ![]()
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