Sin City
Sorry..I couldn't think of a more creative title for this post. It's 1.47 am. So I watched it. Was it good? Yes. Before I go on to what I love about it, let's talk about what I didn't first.
I didn't like the screenplay. It read straight out of the comic, which is fine..when it's read, cheesy when it's said. I understand the creative dilemma of directors adapting a graphic novel. It is imperative that you preserve the visual aesthetics, in other words, the graphics, for it to be a successful adaptation. Otherwise, it would just be like the common movie adaptations of books. What makes a graphic novel so great is exactly what makes it what it is - art. But in translating from book to screen, my opinion is that the narrator in our head sounds very different when it travels to your mouth. This relationship between head-mouth-ears is exactly what I disliked about The Da Vinci Code. Sure it was an intersting read, but all I could think about was Dan Brown sitting in front of his computer, or typewriter, thinking : "movie rights, movie rights...ka-ching!" The entire book was written like a screenplay, not what I sign up for when I buy a novel. I demand intelligent prose that asks for some form of active relationship with the reader's imagination. If I wanted to be told a story, I'd rent a storyteller.
Anyway, back to the movie. So what caught my eye most, aside from the fact that it fed my love for the colour red - it all its saturated glory, was that the only other colours employed where the three primaries - red, blue and yellow....and green, and derivative of the primaries. I haven't really thought about its allusions, although the primaries, along with black and white make up the basic palette for all other colours. Black absorbs, White Reflects and mixed with the primaries - you get every single colour in the world. If you took all the colours in the world, stuck it in a blender, mixed it all up and strained it to get the barest basics, that's what you would get. Any ideas of what it means?
Ok. That was my spiel. I'm tired now. Goodnight.
I didn't like the screenplay. It read straight out of the comic, which is fine..when it's read, cheesy when it's said. I understand the creative dilemma of directors adapting a graphic novel. It is imperative that you preserve the visual aesthetics, in other words, the graphics, for it to be a successful adaptation. Otherwise, it would just be like the common movie adaptations of books. What makes a graphic novel so great is exactly what makes it what it is - art. But in translating from book to screen, my opinion is that the narrator in our head sounds very different when it travels to your mouth. This relationship between head-mouth-ears is exactly what I disliked about The Da Vinci Code. Sure it was an intersting read, but all I could think about was Dan Brown sitting in front of his computer, or typewriter, thinking : "movie rights, movie rights...ka-ching!" The entire book was written like a screenplay, not what I sign up for when I buy a novel. I demand intelligent prose that asks for some form of active relationship with the reader's imagination. If I wanted to be told a story, I'd rent a storyteller.
Anyway, back to the movie. So what caught my eye most, aside from the fact that it fed my love for the colour red - it all its saturated glory, was that the only other colours employed where the three primaries - red, blue and yellow....and green, and derivative of the primaries. I haven't really thought about its allusions, although the primaries, along with black and white make up the basic palette for all other colours. Black absorbs, White Reflects and mixed with the primaries - you get every single colour in the world. If you took all the colours in the world, stuck it in a blender, mixed it all up and strained it to get the barest basics, that's what you would get. Any ideas of what it means?
Ok. That was my spiel. I'm tired now. Goodnight.
posted by Weifer Reefer | 1:47 AM
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