Whos that character beside Darth Maul on the homepage?
A member of the Peking Opera, from the 1983 Hong Kong movie Bai ga jai (The Prodigal Son). It’s difficult to tell from this picture, but his face makeup looks just like Darth Maul, and another character in the same movie wears Maul’s exact outfit. Maul’s horns are probably borrowed from the Christian idea of Satan. His filthy teeth and “starburst” contact lenses are probably allusions to The Emperor from Return of the Jedi, whose design was probably partially borrowed from Regan, the possessed little girl from 1973’s The Exorcist. (Not the politician.
