Sci-Fi Clips

The Star Wars Kid

October 2, 2007 on 9:45 am | In Sci-Fi, Star Wars, The Matrix | No Comments

I would be remiss if I did not include a couple of versions of the most popular Sci Fi Clip of all time on this site.

In case you missed the phenomenon known as “The Star Wars Kid”, I’ll provide a little background for you before providing a couple of my favorite clips.

Quoting from Wikipedia:

“Star Wars kid” is an Internet phenomenon which started when a video clip recorded by a fourteen-year-old French Canadian male high school student was shared online by a number of other students.

On November 4, 2002 the boy made a video of himself swinging a golf ball retriever around as a weapon, presumably imitating the Darth Maul character from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace who wields a double-bladed lightsaber. The video was filmed at the studio of his high school, and the tape was left forgotten in a basement. The original owner of the videotape discovered his recorded acts and immediately shared it with some friends. Thinking that it would be a funny prank, they encoded it to a WMV file and shared it using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network.

Within two weeks, the file was downloaded several million times. An adapted version of the video was created, adding Star Wars music, texts, and lightsaber lights and sounds to his golf ball retriever.

As of 27 November 2006 it has been estimated by The Viral Factory that the videos had been viewed over 900 million times, making it the most popular “viral video” on the Internet.

There are obviously many “versions” of the Star Wars Kid to choose from. Here are the two that I chose. (I tried to only include ones that put him in a good light rather than a bad one.)

Drunken Jedi Master

The Best MATRIX Version (in my opinion)