Let's Just Say The Spirit Trailer Plays to Frank Miller's Strengths
Posted at 9:09 AM Apr 21, 2008
Before we get into the New York Comic Con coverage, let's watch this Spirit teaser trailer. Think of it as the pickled ginger before the sushi of news arrives. Do you think Frank Miller realizes that there's an appreciable difference between movies and comic books? Because in the trailer above, I saw a lot of scenes and heard dialog that would make for a decent comic, but when shown as a motion picture, are goofy as hell.
I've not read The Spirit (I know, I know), so I have no idea if he really lives in an empty loft with two dozen cats or if that's Frank Miller just doing his Frank Miller thing along with the all-black suit, the city-lover-mother thing and the rest. Can anyone tell me?
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this looks vaguely interesting. Why does EVERY Frank Miller cinematic vehicle have to have the same style of lettering, though?
Posted 04/21/2008 at 08:16:39 AMIf the title of this was "Sin City 2" I would accept it as that and wouldn't get the Spirit connection at all. He's a man dressed in blue who lives in a cemetary and his adventures are often tounge in cheek.
Eisner retained a singular vision for the character throughout his life, so it's hard to swallow Miller's reinterpretation.
Posted 04/21/2008 at 09:15:24 AMI just threw up in my mouth.
What the fuck is The Spirit doing wearing goddamn Chuck Taylors?! CHUCK-FUCKIN'-TAYLORS?! I like Frank Miller, but I think he totally fucked this up. Was Frank reading the same character the rest of us were? Does he have to make every male character a gruff-voiced sociopath who rambles on about "his city" so that a movie can get made? For shame.
I'm just looking forward to the inevitable Gangsta-rap spouting, gold chain-wearing, atrocity that Ebony will be, to make this a total piece of crap.
Posted 04/21/2008 at 11:37:59 AMI have read the Spirit -- the original, and not the new DC atrocity -- and this, sir, is not the Spirit.
For starters, I do not believe he ever owned a cat.
Posted 04/21/2008 at 06:55:48 PM