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He's such a great artist, pity there isn't more to write here. --IceHunter 03:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes he is the best!Sorcerer123 (talk) 02:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please remember: "Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views." See WP:TPG. Patchy1Talk To Me! 17:06, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

McQuarrie coming up with idea for Vader breath mask[edit]

I've heard this repeated many times, and I'm not sure if there are other sources which claim it to be true, but the only reference cited for the claim in this article is a single Washington Post article. However, a firsthand quote from Ralph McQuarrie himself which I've found in J.W. Rinzler's The Making of Star Wars--presumably sourced from the Star Wars Insider magazine interview also referenced in this article but which I don't have access to--states that it was Lucas's idea originally, not his (bold mine):

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“For Darth Vader, George just said he would like to have a very tall, dark fluttering figure that had a spooky feeling like it came in on the wind,” McQuarrie says. “He mentioned the look of Arab costumes, all tied up in silk and rags. He liked the idea of Vader having a big hat, like a fisherman’s hat, a big long metal thing that came down. George wanted him to have some sort of mask, because they were supposed to leap down from this big ship to a smaller ship that the rebels were in. The space suits began as being necessary for their survival in space, but the suits became part of their character. I made three or four little sketches, which he looked at and said, ‘That’s not right, I kind of like that hat, but maybe you should fool around with it a little bit more.’ So I made some more sketches. He was going up to San Francisco to work on the script, and came down in another week and a half or two weeks to see what I was doing.”

Rinzler, J.W.. The Making of Star Wars (Enhanced Edition) (Kindle Locations 1386-1387). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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This seems pretty definitive to me. A firsthand quote from McQuarrie would seem to trump an unsourced statement from a newspaper article. I'm only hesitant to make an edit because this seems to be such a well-accepted part of Star Wars development lore, so I'm wondering if there are conflicting statements from McQuarrie himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14C:8101:4B98:11AF:469E:DF52:F348 (talk) 12:49, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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