#Anakin skywalker vs obi wan kenobi tv#
From the moment Lucasfilm announced that Obi-Wan Kenobi would be coming to Disney+ starring Ewan McGregor, it was all but assured that we’d once again be revisiting Vader, and potentially getting a lot more of him than we’ve gotten in any film since Return of the Jedi. Yes, Vader has been a presence in various Star Wars spinoffs, including the thrilling conclusion to Rogue One, and a slew of animated films and series, including The Clone Wars film and subsequent TV series, the Rebels animated series, and Forces of Destiny animated series. Yet what makes Darth Vader a truly great villain is the hints of weakness, of humanity, buried beneath all black armor and flowing black cloak. Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) in Lucasfilm’s OBI-WAN KENOBI, exclusively on Disney+. Sound designer Ben Burtt added the respiratory function to Darth’s helmet, using modified recordings of scuba diving breathing apparatuses. Mollo added a gas mask, motorcycle suit, leather boots, and a monk’s cloak from the Middle Ages. Costume designer John Mollo then took inspiration from real-life evil, designing Vader’s now iconic black helmet to look like the headgear that Nazis wore during WWII.
McQuarrie realized that because Vader would be operating in space, he needed some kind of spacesuit and a proper helmet, so he attached the breathing apparatus to a samurai helmet. Early inspirations included samurai armor, and McQuarrie delivered a sketch that gave Vader a creepy breathing apparatus and a billowing cape.
When artist Ralph McQuarrie was getting to work on the earliest concept art of Vader, George Lucas told him he wanted Vader to look like “a dark lord riding on the wind with an evil essence about him,” senior manager of archives and exhibits at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art told Fast Company back in 2015. The black mask, black body armor, and black cloak all scream fascist terrorizer to our reptilian brain. Imposing, imperial, and impeccably performed by the voice work of James Earl Jones and embodied by the 6’6″ David Prowse, just on aesthetics alone, Vader is hard to match. There is a reason that Darth Vader is widely considered one of the greatest villains in the history of cinema.
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