Blowing Smoke: A movie about poker, cigars, women, and getting screwed

Friday
April 04, 2008

Did you like Sin City? Do you like dudes who wear all black and have masks on and punch a lot of guys?

Male Jim Treacher | Category: Movies
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Then Frank Miller is hoping you'll like The Spirit, his upcoming movie adaptation of Will Eisner's influential comic strip*. One of my new favorite blogs, Topless Robot (it's kind of like, "What if IO9 occasionally left the house?"), has a first look at The Spirit himself. Here he is side-by-side with the original:

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I'm not so sure about the all-black, almost paramilitary look, but otherwise it looks like they've captured the... um... you know. Don't make me say it.

*And yes, it was a comic strip, back in the '40s. It had its own special Sunday section in a lot of newspapers. Don't let anybody tell you it was a "graphic novel." Did you know that calling them "graphic novels" doesn't make you any less of a nerd? You should.

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I really hope this doesn't mean that it's actually in black and white with bits of red, a la Sin City... this is a movie that needs the Dick Tracy treatment with regard to colour.

Comment by pete on April 5, 2008 8:28 AM

Yeah, if it's going to be B&W, you'd think they'd go with the white shirt for contrast.

Comment by Treach on April 5, 2008 4:43 PM

Hmmm. I don't know. Unless it has Carla Gugino showing the goods, I'm not sure I'm on board for this one.

Comment by Mark V. on April 7, 2008 3:10 AM

It's an illustrated serial adventure, you insensitive clod!

Comment by Les Jones on April 7, 2008 7:18 AM