Interrogation (01)
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This scene in the film always brings a smile - oddly enough!
Are you injecting - or skewering me?
The Marvel one looked quite different!
George Lucas said he wanted things in the film to look 'familiar' - even though it was an other-worldly space-fantasy movie. People could relate to it - strange as it all was: it'd connect. Thing is though, that interrogation droid - or whatever it is - is very impressive, scary and futuristic; but it has this laughably familiar plastic syringe attached to it! Same as the ones we have in our own Galaxy. And is that all it does? All that anti-gravity, robotics, weird humming and it just runs into you with a needle? Hey, maybe Vader's too squeamish to do it himself! Look at the size of it! It's not so much a needle - more of a wedge.
Ah that's nice, he gently pulls her sleeve down for the injection.
Art Notes
The artwork here was mostly ripped-off from Howard Chaykin's Marvel comic adaptation, but the reflective surface of Vader's helmet is quite well observed. Chaykin didn't have the floating ball droid thing so I had to do that myself. Floating metal turnip - more like!
Howard Chaykin's rip off of my version - 1977
A green highlighter marker has been used here. Dad brought some home from work and I was just amazed by their effect. The black is done with a thick permanent marker. The, by now familiar yellow Simpsons skin colouring is due to the 'flesh' marker running out.
Or, can't-be-arsed-ness.
Comments
As an amusing aside, we got to take a close look at the interrogation droid when the Science of Star Wars exhibit did the rounds. We saw it in Chicago, and I clearly remember seeing the words 'Made in Britain' stamped upside down on the side of the big plastic hypodermic needle.
I've got a picture of it somewhere, but I'll be buggered if I can find it.
My wife Gabby said last night that the interrogation droid reminds her of one of those department store security cameras. "They could have done SOMETHING to it to make it look different." she said. That's George for you. People are creeped-out by security cameras and syringes so just use those. I wish the PT had tried as hard to look more like real life.
I bought a BroohHandle Mauser (Solo Pistol) and the thing is huge without all the extra stuff added to it.
I guess,being low budget, they had to work as much as they could with readily available stuff.
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