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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.
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That would really improve the quality of the new series!
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It would be, and probably only should be, a short cameo appearance, maybe as a young jedi in training.
Here's a link to the original video and a later-remixed video:
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I hear he's going to be cast as Jar-Jar Binks.
83000 votes, that makes this matter 1/3 as important as the question of software patents in Europe.
... but was i the only one that got really frustrated because there were only .wmw versions of the starwarskid movies around?
Yes. Yes you were.
Let him be the one to take the head of jarjar
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So far more than 83,000 people have put their names to an online petition that they're planning on sending to Star Wars director George Lucas.
Yes, and how many people do you think petitioned Lucas to put the original versions of the trilogy on DVD?
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Nevermind my earlier post, I found the video here:
The Original Video
See this video in context
I think it's pretty likely that he'll get a place in Star Wars 3. I mean, he's got about as much talent as anybody else in it.
I'm just waiting for the action figures!
It sucked what happened to him but since then he has had some good things happen to him:
1. He got an ipod from sympathetic souls which was nice and
2. His parents are suing the family of the kids who uploaded the movie to the net for everything they've got
3. He learned something Pam and Tommy should have learned: be careful what you video tape because someone could end up exploiting you for it.
I think it would be nice if he got a walkon but I don't really feel sorry for him anymore
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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I find your lack of faith ... disturbing.
from the to-stupid-for-words dept.
Right...
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
Metachlorian-challenged! At least be a geek properly!
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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?
Much anger I sense in this one. Ready for the Jedi, he is not.
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...
well, after Count Dooku gets killed with garlic, holy water and a lightsaber stab through the heart, Palpatine recruits SWK as his new hatchetman, who kills most of the Jedis until Darth Vader kills and replaces SWK, who in an ironic twist of fate, is revealed as Anakin's father.
They should cast him as Anakin's long lost brother, Fatakin.
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.
Are all lawsuits evil? According to this article these kids did a lot more than just hurt this kids feelings. They stole the video from a school filing cabnet. Posted it to the internet with messages encouraging people to make fun of it. Conspired to hide the fact they stole the tape from school officials. Plotted to have the iPod and money that were raised for him sent to a different address, so they could keep them. Ghyslain was so widely mocked at his private high school that he dropped out. He had to finish the session at Pavillon Arc-en-ciel, a ward specializing in child psychiatry at the Trois-Rivieres Regional Hospital Centre. They didn't just hurt his feelings, the tried to ruin his life. Surely theres a lawsuit in there somewhere. I hope they take these punks to the cleaners.
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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This has always bothered me when parents try to go this far with protecting their little boy from humiliation. Everyone has to deal with it so deal with it. This kids situation might be a little different from us, but in a way it isnt. This will go away in a very short time now just like everything everyone has had to deal with, unless of course he's offered and takes a movie part. The fact that this kid's parents are going after everything the posting kids families have is NOT justifiable. Anyway, maybe Im the only one who feels this way. Someone should be hired to video tape something embarassing that the parents are doing and post it the day the parents lose in court.