Lets look back at Star Wars IV (The first one) I keep trying to re-watch it to capture a little of the excitement I once felt about it as a kid but it's just not there anymore. I find this very odd because I watch all sorts of other old stuff from back then and get right into it again but not this. ?
Ah well!
Anyway lets look at the few remaining spacesuits on view in the cantina scene.
As well as Bo Shek in his black Windak, which we looked at ages ago, there are a few others.
Unfortunately it's hard to get really good images of them so we'll just have to settle for these.
There are three spacesuited characters in this background scene. Some of them may well have inherited character names in the intervening years but clearly at the time they were just there to make the place look sufficiently sci-fi. And they were there to do it within a budget as well which is why they are all existing suits and helmets. What we have to do now is identify them...well we don't have to but it's a fun game to play.
lets do the easy one first.
That's the yellow Windak, the twin of Bo Shek's black one. The two suits have had something of a career but their most famous previous appearance will be in the 1964 film; The First Men in the Moon.
Sitting next to him is Danz Borin who's suit has that distinctive black patch that suggests it's from the same place as Duros (?) Ellors (?), the blue skinned, red eye'd chap below. The helmet is from somewhere else and I know I've seen it before but I just can't place it. If anybody wants to chip in with an idea or two, feel free to post a comment. I thought it would come to me but it's not happening.
Not sure about the silver suit above. It's been suggested elsewhere that it's from the TV series Lost In Space but I can't be sure. The helmet however is from Escape from the Planet of the Apes, 1971 and has also done the rounds in a series of film and TV shows prior to this.
This image, if you've the eyes of a hawk and look into the top left hand side seems to suggest that there might have been two of these identically clad spacemen, both with their back to us while talking to Borin. Mr yellow Windack, is sitting down by this point, on the very edge of the picture trying to pull some space floozie
And that white suit there, identical to Borin's above, is one of the actual spacesuits from the 3rd of the Ape movies although like the helmet it started life in the early 60's, featuring in a number of films and TV shows. It used to be a classic silver colour too, like the Gemini suits.
Steve
