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filkertom ([personal profile] filkertom) wrote2006-07-19 11:09 am
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Hm. Hurm. Well.

Don't know if this is good yet. There will be a big-screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit.

By Frank Miller.

Discuss.

[identity profile] selenesue.livejournal.com 2006-07-19 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, I could not disagree more! With "The Spirit," Eisner invented the genre niche that Miller occupies today. How could he =not= get it?

With cautious optimism, Susan.
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[personal profile] ericcoleman 2006-07-19 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a sparce-ness to the Spirit, something that cannot be said about Miller, at least not for some decades.

There is a gentleness, a sense of irony that I just can't see Miller dealing with. Subtlety is something that Miller just doesn't do.

[identity profile] skalja.livejournal.com 2006-07-19 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed with the "subtlety" point - Eisner had it in spades, Miller ... doesn't.

[identity profile] purpleranger.livejournal.com 2006-07-19 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Miller's idea of subtlety is hitting you over the head with a 10-pound sledgehammer instead of a 12-pound sledgehammer.

[identity profile] skalja.livejournal.com 2006-07-19 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Or, you know, a prepubescent girl who only crushes on her father figure instead of growing up to have a relationship with him. *coughs*