Reggie Hudlin interview
Posted by: Rich Watson on January 6, 2009 at 5:09 pm
“The Dark Reign cabal is a complicated set of alliances. No one really trusts the next guy, and everyone is making contingency plans… Maybe there is a general agreement over what they do with the Panther and Wakanda–and maybe some members have other plans. But no matter what, Wakanda has to be dealt with. It’s too powerful, too rich, and too independent.”
Plus: Kyle Baker’s tongue-in-cheek Spirit review (thanks to Jon for the link).
Fred January 6th, 2009
Rich,
Thanks for linking to Kyle Baker’s review of Frank Miller’s The Spirit.
It’s one thing for Eisner fans to not care for the look of the movie. It’s another for fans to brand Miller “evil” because he perfectly captures the campiness and sex appeal that Will Eisner injected into the character.
Baker’s review is the perfect satire of comic fans who take the hobby WAY too seriously.
Claudia January 6th, 2009
Baker’s review is hilarious. I have to admit it took me a minute to catch on, but he really nailed it. And those Ebony White panels – dear God.
Adalberto McFarlane January 8th, 2009
For my self, after I saw the Spirit when it premeiered on Christmas day (yes, I went and got my ticket on it), I immediately had the thought of “Frank Miller’s version of Will Eisner’s The Spirit”. I mean, yes, there was mistakes (like leaving out Ebony), making the Octopus a crazy character with all of the dress-ups (shades of Sin City tale “Hell and Back a love story”!). Yeah, most of us didn’t like it, but its Frank doing it his way. If you couldn’t tell just by seeing the trailer, man are you blind!
I completely understand Kyle’s pov on it, but it is obvious what Frank concentrated on: The beautiful women (c’mon, who didn’t make that face at Eva Mendez’s phat fine rear end after she dropped the towel?). It won’t make a pile of money like Sin City or 300, so just take it as pure fantasy and enjoy the silliness of it; because overall:
It was a very fun movie, right?
