You would think his chest controls would make that flat line sound so we'd all know for sure.
With my pedantic hat on... Sebastian Shaw was replaced by Hayden.On glowing and identity after death... Even lego star wars mocks them for replacing the original vader, David Prowse, with the new vader, Hayden Christensen, in the ewok village 3 ghost scene. "You didn't look like that five minutes ago."
It's because the scenes where emotions, character developments and plot progressions are supposed to happen in a cinematic and creative way are just 2 blokes walking and talking in a green room with cartoon environment shot flatly and boringly. The rest of the movie tries to make up for it with dazzling over the top cgi special effects and action scenes where the aforementioned characters and plot points ring hollow, so you have nothing but empty cgi.What I find interesting about the pt is this. If I ask these questions to most people I get these answers.
Did you like the character design? yes
Did you like the world design? yes
Did you like the creature and alien designs? yes
Did you like the robot/droid designs? yes
Did you like the action scenes? yes
Did you like the costume designs? yes
Did you like the lightsaber fights? yes
Did you like the villains design? yes
Did you like the sound fx? yes
Did you like the music? yes
Did you like the movie? no. too much cg.
Just now saw this. So many years and I had thought he had a chance to show his face but no, they ripped that last scene from him as well. Am I missing some insider story about why he never got to take the helmet off? I truly thought it was him til your post and I looked it up........ Sorry, I must have been sleepwalking. I just read the back story on the feud and the eventual split.With my pedantic hat on... Sebastian Shaw was replaced by Hayden.
@greenmachines, the best reconstruction I was able to put together (hard to sift through George's contradictory "always intended" comments) is... In early drafts, the helmet and mask were to cross space to board the princess' ship. George did intend to overdub him for the voice filter of the mask. Somewhere in the process, George liked how imposing and anonymous he looked in the mask and decided to have him keep it on throughout. This was a late development. In the version of the story Marvel Comics and Alan Dean Foster got to turn into their adaptations, it was presumed the breath mask was for the boarding action and flying his fighter. Though it wasn't pointed out, they presumed Vader would have his helmet off for all the scenes on the Death Star, including the conference room scene. Hence him levitating a coffee mug to himself.
There seems also to have been a question (possibly in George's mind, possibly in others') of how well Dave would do with delivering the lines. His natural accent was pretty thick, and I don't know whether they tried him with others (see: A Clockwork Orange and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). I know it was a decision made either vary late in preproduction or at Elstree once they started filming on the Death Star set.
And then George made Vader Anakin, instead of them being separate characters, and Dave was too young (as Vader was supposed to have been one of Obi-Wan's students, where Obi-Wan and Anakin was closer to being of an age), so for the reveal they wanted an actor who they felt looked and sounded right.
It was in the milieu of the time (variety shows were still big on TV), the surrounding story (important event Chewie needs to be home with his family for, Empire finds out about it and tries to use it to capture its most-wanted criminals) is solid... Even the production values were good for television of the time. Personally, I like that we saw General Bast survived the Death Star (probably took Tarkin's shuttle after the latter demurred). Like a lot of things from late-'70s TV (and a lot of movies of the time, too), the production standards just don't stand up, and some questionable choices, in hindsight, were made.Hold on, whoa whoa whoa!!! Did someone actually say that the Holiday Special had respect for the audience and the material?!!! Brother, I don't know which Holiday special you saw, but it certainly was not the one I saw!
Vader was engulfed by the Emperor's lightning. I thought it was clear it short circuited his life support systems. Without them his ventilator malfunctioned and accounts for his labored breathing in the film which is a wheezing sound compared to the normal rythm we hear throughout the rest of the trilogy. It's amazing he lasted as long as he did when Luke nearly got him on the shuttle.
I was born in 1965, so yeah, I lived through all of it. The Holiday special was crap then, it is crap now, and it will always be crap.I would love to see the Holiday Special re-done, but as it is I can cringe through it and enjoy it. I lived through late-'70s TV, though. Someone who didn't would have a harder time of it, I think.