'I'm going to make you the thinking man's Darth Vader!'
Words that were surely sweet music to enthusiastic Dave Prowse's fully-opened ears, from The Empire Strikes Back's inspiring new director Irvin Kershner, as the British actor/body building champion returned to act/inhabit the world's greatest screen villain (and children's ultimate 'Boogeyman') in Darth Vader, who'd become more character-nuanced, more deadly, more spiteful, and less able to tolerate incompetent fools gladly than ever before, to the delight of audiences worldwide. In the three-year story timeline between movies, Vader is resolve-hardened in destroying the Rebel Alliance, with a particular interest turned obsession in finding the young hero Luke Skywalker, the Dark Lord of the Sith assembling a mighty Imperial Star Destroyer 'Death Squadron' and launching thousands of probe droids across the galaxy to find the Force abilities pilot who destroyed the Death Star.
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| Giving orders for attack from his Super Star Destroyer meditation chamber. |
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| Vader with his loyal Imperial officer Admiral Piett (Kenneth Colley). |
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| Leading from the front with his Snowtroopers in capturing Echo Base. |
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| Another one bites the dust in this posed publicity image. |
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| Vader brings in the bounty hunters to search for the Millennium Falcon. |
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| Capturing Han Solo at Bespin, and all before dinner! |
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| Conspiring with Boba Fett (John Morton, for one filmed scene), watched by a helpless Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams). |
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| Ominously awaiting Luke Skywalker's arrival into his trap! |
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| Vader soon overwhelms the not-fully-trained Luke Skywalker. |
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| 'I am your father!' |
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| Awaiting the next fateful meeting with Luke Skywalker.... |
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