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Star Wars Kid & Episode III?
samsarajr writes "Many of you would have seen that homemade yet ever so embarressing video of 15 Year old Ghyslain jumping around with a pretend lightsabre.
Well - he's back and I think we all agree that Lucas should put the kid with the lightsabre into Star Wars III." I tell you this is the story that just won't die. But in all fairness, some of those re-edits were hysterical.
It would be, and probably only should be, a short cameo appearance, maybe as a young jedi in training.
83000 votes, that makes this matter 1/3 as important as the question of software patents in Europe.
To appear in episode 3 would undermine his whole lawsuit, no matter what his motivations (whether he truly is suffering or if he is greedy).
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Lets hope this post will stay on top of the messages for most people. Actually it would be really cool to put that link in the main story as an update (or a dupe)
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Instead of collecting money to buy this kid an iPod or signing petitions to put him in the movie, we should be collecting money to buy him a therapist, some cool clothes, and a personal trainer. I suffered a lot from 6th grade to 8th grade. I always felt very awkward and unpopular, painfully afraid of girls, and never having more than 1 or 2 friends at a time. Some kids picked a nick-name for me I really hated. As stupid and silly and not really all that bad as it was, it still ate away at me, and I wasn't at the disadvantage of being overweight and the center of a world-wide joke. The kids in his school are probable calling him the Star Wars kid. As much as we empathies with this kid, I'm sure there is no way this joke is helping him. Getting in the movie isn't going to help either. It will just help reinforce the joke further. Hopefully Lucas will let the kid *privately* visit the set and meet the stars and get some value out of this phenomenon. But it is shortsighted to expect the kid to become fond of this attention anytime soon. Lets be honest, we don't want the kid in the movie to help him, we want him in it to further our own ejoyment.
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The force seems to be strong with his stomach. The kid is a little heavy to be a Jedi, no?
Well I certainly won't be signing it. All my sympathy evaporated when the word "litigation" entered the fray.
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Is there really a point in online petitions? Only a name and an email address is required and one can come up as many false names and free mail addresses as he wants to.
Why should Lucasfilm take this petition seriously? Is there any method to test the validity of the signatures?
And if he can sue his own friends, a commercial corporation worth 100's of millions of dollars isn't going to want anything to do with him.
I've got a feeling that these people were probably never his friends...
Alledgedly the video was stolen out of a filing cabnet at school. The "friends" conspired to hide the fact they stole it. Then even tried to scheme to have the iPod and money that was raised for him be sent to a different address, so they could keep it. Some friends, huh? Actually in a phone interview when asked "I guess it wasn't a friend who did this, more of an enemy?" He replied, "More or less. It was someone I knew.". He should sue them, and I still want to see him in Ep. III.
Some kids then stole the video, digitized it, and put it on kazaa.
Now, please tell me, where those kids haven't done anything wrong? They stole a PRIVATE video and released on the internet, for the purpose of embarassing the kid (who, is now receiving therapy at a mental health institute.)
Sure, the kid got an iPod and some money, but he's going to be affected by this for a long time to come. Those kids deserve everything they get.
I realize he is 15 - but come on...it should be water off a duck's back.
Many kids his age lied about their age, and were fighting in WWII - I don't buy the 'pain and suffering' he is experiencing from this. The litigation sounds like greed to me.
That being said, I think he should be in the movie, or at least give him a tour of the set. He is an internet icon now - his fans will enjoy seeing him on the big screen.
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
And how. fuck those four kids; FUCK THEM IN THE EAR. Personally, I would have kicked their parent's asses unless I witnessed a first-class beating on their children firsthand.
As his legal guardians, the parents are not
required to have his permission or cooperation
to file on his behalf... They are acting in
what they feel is the best interest of their
child. Who are you to question that?
Do some reading, buddy. This isn't just a practical joke pulled off by some friends. The posting kids broke several laws, and actively tried to ruin this kid's life. Jesus, they even tried to figure out a way to get that iPod for themselves. Punish the bastards, and their incompetent parents.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon
Right now, that is the moral. Hopefully they can change it to: Don't try and humilate the school nerd, it can come back to bite you in the ass.