Between 1977 and 1983, moviegoers who watched the debut of Star Wars in theaters anxiously awaited Darth Vader’s unveiling of the man behind the mask—a façade of villainous power and lurid mystique. To the surprise of audiences, he wasn’t an alien-like creature or monstrous machine. Instead, he was a battered, gasping old man whose climactic unveiling would leave many of us thinking, “He’s a good guy after all.”
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