Thursday, January 17, 2008
Why Darth Decimatus?
I know for anyone who has visited my blog, you are most likely wondering why the hell my blog is entitled Darth Decimatus. To answer your question. Yes, I am a loser... But there actually is a story behind it. When I was growing up, like many young nerds I was a huge Star Wars fan. I collected all of the toys and loved the story. However, as I got older, I began to see how poorly done the new films were. They lacked depth and production quality was low. Well because I was still a kid with a wild imagination, I began to think of what my take on Star Wars would be. I started designing a Sith Lord. With Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith coming out, my friends and myself were planning on going to the premier. When they had seen my design, many also requested that I design them one as well. Each one was named and looked totally different than the last. This provided more fuel for my nerdy fire. I kept working on my own story. My result was a story centered around a dark lord named Darth Decimatus. I began to develop his character and create a story around him. I drew dozens of designs for starships and other characters. It became a whole production. Each ship in he story has been designed and each character developed and designed. The result is a deep story of betrayal and darkness. After my creation was complete, obviously I couldn't really do anything with it. However, Darth Decimatus ended up becoming a sort of alias for me. It became my aim screenname and email address for example (yes I am still a huge loser...)Years later, even though my liking of Star Wars has significantly diminished, I still use the character's name from time to time. I guess even when you have outgrown something, you never can outgrow your imagination and never stop loving some of the products of it. For as much as I criticize George Lucas for creating the prequel trilogy (mostly because the films were bad...) I can see why he did it. It is really cool to see a product of your imagination come to life.
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5 comments:
its a sweet concept and a sweet character (ive see it and heard the full story before)
Christian Bale is god. Best actor ever.
Swank its pretty dorky that you came up with this stuff but the characters you came up with are still pretty good. Imagine if you took a step farther with a 3-d modeling program....Sound Familiar?
Every night, there's one thought that keeps me awake. And that is, "When will Swank make me a character?"
i agree with doraely...when do i get a character? i agree the star wars prequels all sucked, but i liked that he attempted to tell more of the story. if only he had done so with a bit more quality i would have been much happier.
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