Comments on: Art of the Night http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/12/30/art-of-the-night-42/ Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:08:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Professor Longnose http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/12/30/art-of-the-night-42/#comment-153002 Professor Longnose Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:30:10 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=46336#comment-153002 I've got Will Eisner's autograph in a very cool form. My father used to work for his graphic arts company. When he got married in 1955, his colleagues gave him a card. Someone drew a caricature of him and his bride-to-be, and everyone in the office signed it, including Will Eisner. My Dad gave me the card years later. I’ve got Will Eisner’s autograph in a very cool form. My father used to work for his graphic arts company. When he got married in 1955, his colleagues gave him a card. Someone drew a caricature of him and his bride-to-be, and everyone in the office signed it, including Will Eisner. My Dad gave me the card years later.

]]> By: Chyll Will http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/12/30/art-of-the-night-42/#comment-153001 Chyll Will Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:03:56 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=46336#comment-153001 Yeah, the movie was "dis-Spiriting" for lack of a better term. Some things are not going to translate well into film unless you have someone of equally-genius talent in that area doing the translating, and even then that guarantees little. Which brings up the point about how awful I expected <i>The Last Airbender</i> to be (from what most have said, I was right) and how cringe-inducing the idea of Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel of <i>Cowboy Bebop</i> actually is. There's more to it than being a comic geek; these are incredible stories as well as images, so to do them in film deserves as much effort as it took to create them in their original element (hat-tip to Peter Jackson for <i>Lord of the Rings</i>., not so much for <i>King Kong</i>). It's just not happening. Yeah, the movie was “dis-Spiriting” for lack of a better term. Some things are not going to translate well into film unless you have someone of equally-genius talent in that area doing the translating, and even then that guarantees little.

Which brings up the point about how awful I expected The Last Airbender to be (from what most have said, I was right) and how cringe-inducing the idea of Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop actually is. There’s more to it than being a comic geek; these are incredible stories as well as images, so to do them in film deserves as much effort as it took to create them in their original element (hat-tip to Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings., not so much for King Kong). It’s just not happening.

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