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Ghyslain Raza is the Canadian teenager who became known throughout the Internet as the "Star Wars Kid".
Raza made a video of himself acting like the Star Wars character Darth Maul, using a golf ball retriever to represent his lightsaber. Some fellow students at his school, which is located in Quebec, put it on the Internet. The video file spread across the Internet quickly and was edited by artists all over the world, making modifications such as adding music, visual effects and sounds, combining it with other well-known videos or scenes from films, etc. for comical effect. Among the many renditions is a Matrix video, with Ghyslain as Neo.
His family is suing the families of the schoolmates - Michaël Caron, François Labarre, Jérôme Laflamme, and Jean-Michel Rheault - who put the video on the Internet, claiming that Raza has suffered harassment and derision both from his schoolmates and from the general public because of the video.
See also: Internet phenomenon
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