Darth Vader
From JUOD
Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker was a main figure of Big Fight Amongst the Sparklies or, as it is popularly called in George Lucas' adaption, Star Wars. He is one of the Famous joiners, and famously uttered the Proposition to his son Luke in "The Empire Strikes Back," the second movie of the trilogy, also based on the epic space opera by JUOD Founder Harley P. Mathewson. Because of the character's symbolism of everything JUOD stands for, he has become an icon of the movement.
Significance in Big Fight
Vader takes on a somewhat different persona in the epic space opera than is presented in Lucas' grievous act against the JUOD Movement. For example, he is a much better swordsman than as presented in the Star Wars trilogy. Also, he frequently goes on long dissertations on joining and its nature. Further, Vader sings only in villanelles, making everything he says into a long and complicated poem with definite rhythm structure. Unfortunately, New Canadianese makes this even more difficult, as Mathewson intentionally designed it so that no word means more than one thing. The vocabulary, then, is immense. This probably led to the seven hour length of the discussion between him and Luke Skywalker.
Vader's all black suit, an insertion by Lucas, was not the typical costume worn by Vader in performances of Big Fight Amongst the Sparklies. Rather, Vader was attired in a suit of all colors of the rainbow, and his "sword which was of the fibre of emitting light" was silver. Actually it was swords—Vader held one in each hand, one in his mouth and another between his legs. The variety of colors in his suit probably represents the variety of people who had joined, and thus escaped death. However, it is known that in one performance Mathewson demanded that Vader wear all black. Then, after the performance, Mathewson changed his mind and had the man who played Vader killed. Then, realizing black was far better, he put the costume on himself, demanding all those around him to "breath like monkeys." In later performances he decided that the costume should be so black that "all light around it & above it & beneath be sucked into its void & rendered invisible to the naked eye." His costume designers said this was impossible. So, like many others, Mathewson had them killed.
Ripped-Off in Star Wars
Mathewson was so enraged upon seeing his epic space opera "bastardized" into a movie in English--though he supposedly wrote iambic pentameter in English, he despised the language--that he killed an entire theatrefull of moviegoers. Revenge on George Lucas, however, has been tougher. Reportedly Mathewson has expressed great love of "Willow," another fantasy created by Lucas, and has been reluctant to kill the movie director; as the film uses many little people as actors--many of whom were related to the folks Mathewson killed in the Great Lollipop Massacre--Mathewson apparently has felt some sort of guilt at taking further action, thus jeopardizing a Willow sequel. That is why, apparently, Lucas has never definitely said there will never be another Willow. Doing so would perhaps bring a death sentence upon him.
