The film I am your father , led by the Balearic filmmakers Toni Bestard and Mark Cabot, was presented in the Sitges Film Festival well received by the public. The presence of the octogenarian British actor David Prowse, who played the famous villain of the series Star Wars and now star of this documentary was one of the main attractions for fans and attendees at the forty-eighth edition of the contest journalists.
The film is a wonderful exercise in nostalgia cinephile mystify even more stubborn in the tormented figure of Darth Vader, a character who have played and helped to enliven a diverse number of actors from the ill-fated Hayden Christensen, to James Earl Jones, whose voice is filtered we have always associated with Vader. Of these, David Prowse is surely the highest and robust halterofilia- ‘was champion, and whose face does not appear in any frame of the movie Star Wars .
Bregados in the film, and Cabot Bestard make the leap to film by this clever proposal that thickens the list of debtors films and fans of the galactic saga. Apart from the growing list of titles directly linked to the franchise, I am your father is in the periphery of the universe created by George Lucas nearly four decades ago. The dialogues of Clerks (1994), whose echoes can still be heard in The Big Bang Theory (2007), the raids of the protagonists of Fanboys (2009), or the senses tributes seen in the popular animated series Family Guy (1999) and Robot Chicken (2005) They are also an example of the deep draft that Star Wars has left several generations since the premiere of Episode IV. A New Hope , 1977
With good reason, and thanks to funding through crowdfunding, the directors decide to approach the figure of Prowse, one of the stars of that galaxy far away , and address various aspects of their participation in the original trilogy. In the only scene in which the actor had a chance to show his face, his death in the Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), Prowse was replaced by another actor, Sebastian Shaw, for reasons still not explained. This and many other anecdotes, shed light on the trajectory of the character, who had also played Frankenstein in Hammer classic The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), and can also boast of having worked with directors like Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam.
However, I am your father is an entertaining documentary, formally impeccable, which will delight fans of the saga. A proposal that refers to I do not know Jack (2002), by Chris Leavens, where the turbulent life of singular Jack Nance, star of film debut of David Lynch and who later she pronounced him “dead, wrapped in a plastic” in the pilot of Twin Peaks (1990) episode was also the subject of analysis and study.
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