Comments on: Golem statue in Prague Totally Looks Like Darth Vader

By: Runway fashion

Runway fashion — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:39:38 +0000

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By: luna

luna — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:51:03 +0000

ikr!!

By: Evka

Evka — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:22:59 +0000

no, co očekávat od amíků (předpokládám amíků)

By: Evka

Evka — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:04:19 +0000

actually it was made of clay

By: Wada

Wada — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:14:15 +0000

Další chytráci,kde by se v Česky vzali samurajové…

By: anonn

anonn — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:13:33 +0000

Dark Vader? seriously? even if your not a fan every one knows his name is Darth Vader

By: ted

ted — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:33:23 +0000

“Darth i am your father!”

“No wonder im always sooooooooo hard”

lol >.>

By: wedeclare

wedeclare — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:39:58 +0000

We’re calling politicians golems, right?

By: GetaLife

GetaLife — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:24:50 +0000

Every golem found in Europe should be torn down and smashed as though it were a Saddam Hussein statue!

By: wedeclare

wedeclare — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:29:05 +0000

THAT’S NO GOLEM!! It’s actually just a statue of Ollie Maršálek, my maternal grandfather. Everybody used to dress like that. I still do on weekends.

By: wedeclare

wedeclare — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:17:07 +0000

Another correction: Golems cannot talk; that’s how they could be discovered in the Jewish stories.
But I’d be careful of the use of the word “myth,” which is often made synonymous with “lie.”
It is said that the son of the rabbi who made the Golem of Prague brought it back to life, and it lives to this day.
While that Golem cannot speak, it can post internet rebuttals to all the cruel falsehoods humans spread about us poor, mute golems.

By: Jacquelinos

Jacquelinos — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:38:29 +0000

Eh, Golem is a creature from the prague jewish myths and it’s NOT inspired by samurais.

By: Theodore

Theodore — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:29:08 +0000

They do look very similar… I guess that’s where all the Star Trek inpiration came from. I never understood why Dark Vather was king of the Klingons or whatever but eh, I’m not a sci-fi guru.

By: Delamanana

Delamanana — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:51:46 +0000

Lyke Srsly.

On a more intelligent note, people need to learn to fricking SPELL.

By: Dr-Lux

Dr-Lux — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:53:26 +0000

Golems can be made of anything dude, that’s why it’s mythical.

By: Tra8

Tra8 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:44:38 +0000

“if you speak Czech”? hmmm…This site seems to be in English, perhaps most people here speak English? Considering how small a country Czech Republic is, I wouldn’t get so easily annoyed how few people speak Czech here. We appreciate your information, but “*eyerolls*” seem a bit silly.

By: Deekay723

Deekay723 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:14:51 +0000

One correction: golems are made of clay, not wood.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:39:47 +0000

HAHAHAHAHA.

By: Tederick

Tederick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:57:34 +0000

By the way, you can see the sorrowful (and dead) wife if you look real hard in the lower left hand of the knight’s picture.

By: Tederick

Tederick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:56:51 +0000

Deb’s almost got it right. I’ve heard that the knight accused his wife of cheating on him. She denied it. He killed her. Turns out she was innocent. And now he’s doomed to walk the streets of Prague as a ghost. Once in a hundred years, he will appear at midnight. If he finds a woman who will kiss him, he will be set free. Personally, I just think it’s a clever story some Prague guy dreamed up so that girls will be more willing to kiss a complete stranger at midnight.

Of course, it goes without saying that it just wouldn’t work for the Dark Lord of the Sith. Hard to smooch through that air-filter visor thing of his.

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:48:32 +0000

That isn’t the Golem of Prague. That is Yakim (I think that’s how you spell it) who was a warrior who broke his woman’s heart and is now doomed to walk the streets of Prague until he finds a virgin who forgives what he did and will walk him through Prague for an hour. The Golem was a monster made by a Jewish mystic to protect the Jewish Quarter. But yes, Yakim does look like Darth Vader.

By: 2nis

2nis — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:47:09 +0000

i think u guys dont f…..g know who Jan Žižka was…
No golem…pls
czech hero-almost like Darth Vader

Yannie u right…

By: Yannie

Yannie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:29:25 +0000

All my life I thought that this is Golem – http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~peter/COM1070/L1n2/golem.jpg
It’s our movie Golem – I am from Prague.

By: Random Butler

Random Butler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:46:10 +0000

the Commendatore statue “Il Commendatore by Anna Chromy”. looks like Palpatine.

By: propanbhutan

propanbhutan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:06:04 +0000

As said below, that is not a statue of the Golem. It’s a statue whose name is alternately given as Železný rytíř (the Iron Knight) or Kamenný rytíř (the Stone Knight), by Ladislav Šaloun (1870-1946; same guy who made the Jan Hus statue in Old Town Square). It’s part of the New City Hall building, standing on the corner of Platnéřská st. and Mariánské sq.

By: scarecrow

scarecrow — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:53:04 +0000

I think Drink is talking about the Pokemon…
It’s an awesome statue though.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:13:15 +0000

Gollum=little twisted creature from Tolkien

Golem=an animated creature made from inanimate matter (that is, a wooden doll that moves and talks, etc.) It is a Jewish myth.

By: G-Rod

G-Rod — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:58:06 +0000

What gives you that idea?

By: Simon Foit

Simon Foit — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:35:12 +0000

Its not GOLEM,you ass, that is knight!

By: Roflsneezia

Roflsneezia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:21:59 +0000

THEN WHO/WHAT IS GOLEM?

By: Roflsneezia

Roflsneezia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:21:12 +0000

FTW

By: nimerha

nimerha — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:08:07 +0000

I am not aware of it; not saying that it doesn´t exist but I´d be surprised. And yes, the legend (if I can call it that) ends with the golem being stored away – most often at the top of the old-new synagogue – but needless to say, it´s never been found

By: CatFace

CatFace — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:30:50 +0000

good one, that.

By: darth vader copied my homework

darth vader copied my homework — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:37:04 +0000

The statue may well be older than the star wars movies, which are obviously based on samurai armour. I guess the japanese were copying darth vader with their armour too? After all, it was a long, long time ago….

By: humeanesque

humeanesque — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:59:48 +0000

Samurai? In Prague?

By: MotaPrego

MotaPrego — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:58:39 +0000

That’s your opinion, of course, and we have to respect it. But you are soooooooooo wrong! This an excelent TLL.

By: MotaPrego

MotaPrego — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:53:44 +0000

LOL!!!

By: chiz

chiz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:17:44 +0000

*you* look like darth vader.

By: lolz

lolz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:09:03 +0000

sooo right

By: The Admiral

The Admiral — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:50:17 +0000

Amen to that, Rattus!

By: memememe

memememe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:43:08 +0000

Obviously the artist who made the statue was a Darth Vader fan. Totally a Homage.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:15:49 +0000

People need to stop confusing ‘Golem’ and ‘Gollum’. >_<

By: RiderLeangle

RiderLeangle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:35:34 +0000

You guys should be happy I didn’t use the F Word.

And I was finished guys.

By: JTB

JTB — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:42:28 +0000

And it also ended in a preposition. Tsk Tsk!

By: Drink more beer - ɯoɔ˙ʇnoo6zʇǝı

Drink more beer - ɯoɔ˙ʇnoo6zʇǝı — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:13:21 +0000

Well, in all fairness, I don’t think the statue looks anything like Golem either.

By: nimerha

nimerha — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:40:19 +0000

Eurgh, this has NOTHING to do with the golem! It´s, the Iron Man, also known as Cursed Knight or, somewhat unacurrately but more popularly, the “Armory Maker”; from the corner of Platnéřská and Marian square, close enough to but definitely not the Jewish quarter.
If you speak czech, you can click my name and read more about it. Although, if you speak czech, you´re less likely to mess up Prague´s sights and history *eyerolls*

By: starlinguk

starlinguk — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:39:28 +0000

Is there a Golem statue too? I just read up on that Golem, apparently half of its “words” were rubbed out, so it only has “death” left, and it could be revived. Allegedly it’s still stored somewhere, just in case (it was used against anti-semites, but it ran riot).

By: nimerha

nimerha — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:29:50 +0000

I salute your historical armour knowledge, but the statue is “Platnéř” (loosely translated as armourer, or plate-armour maker), located at the entrance of Platnéřská street into the Marian square. Has absolutely nothing to do with the golem or the jewish quarter (although these are close to each other). Also coincidentally about fifty meters from my place of work

By: MeyRevived

MeyRevived — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:45:40 +0000

You win 10 internetz for saying using Convergent evolution properly.

By: starlinguk

starlinguk — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:40:49 +0000

Cool!

I like QI facts.