Everyone has heard of Darth Vader, the infamous Star Wars villain we all love to fear, created by George Lucas and brought to life by Dave Prowse MBE, but people may not be so familiar with the story of the multi-talented man behind the mask. It required someone exceptional to turn a helmeted costume into the principal character in the highest grossing film series in cinem
Everyone has heard of Darth Vader, the infamous Star Wars villain we all love to fear, created by George Lucas and brought to life by Dave Prowse MBE, but people may not be so familiar with the story of the multi-talented man behind the mask. It required someone exceptional to turn a helmeted costume into the principal character in the highest grossing film series in cinema history - that someone was Dave Prowse. The towering, physical presence of the 6ft 7" bodybuilder was ideally suited to personify the intimidating Darth Vader. Straight from the Force's Mouth takes us behind the scenes of Star Wars and documents how this extraordinary man took on the role of the menacing central character to creating one of the most iconic villains in cinema history. In this book of memoirs, Dave shares his journey from disadvantaged child and poor student to champion weightlifter and international film star. The Dave Prowse story is one of determination and hard work and in this honest account ...
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ebook
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470 pages
Published
September 28th 2011
by Apex Publishing
(first published August 14th 2011)
Getting all the Star Wars stuff out of the way first is a great idea as it means he can concentrate on al the interesting stuff that happened to him in his career, where else can you get chapters describing how Stanley Kubrick and Russ Meyer work as directors, or what it was like to work for Hammer the first time it was around. Also has a lot of fascinating details on the world of bodybuilding and weight training that you might not start out being interested in but will be by the end of it.
A lot
Getting all the Star Wars stuff out of the way first is a great idea as it means he can concentrate on al the interesting stuff that happened to him in his career, where else can you get chapters describing how Stanley Kubrick and Russ Meyer work as directors, or what it was like to work for Hammer the first time it was around. Also has a lot of fascinating details on the world of bodybuilding and weight training that you might not start out being interested in but will be by the end of it.
A lot better than it should be.
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