Introducing Star Wars to a puppet master

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He has this knowledge and expertise,

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which is why I think that he's very important

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and essential for our movement.

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- [Narrator] There was just one thing.

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The master puppeteer had never seen "Star Wars."

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Well, no problem.

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Tintoy introduced him

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to a galaxy far, far away,

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and Pak Dain was struck by its similarity

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to traditional Malaysian stories.

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- The themes of the story, which is about good versus evil,

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In the main story in wayang kulit,

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we have a very bad character, Ravan,

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and in the "Star Wars" movie, we have Darth Vader,

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he's also a bad character.

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(man laughing)

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Ram, or Sri Rama, is a very good character,

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and in the "Star Wars"

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we have Skywalker as a good character.

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- [Narrator] Since 2013,

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Tintoy and Pak Dain have performed around 100 shows