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Jul. 20th, 2003 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksWell, we went last night to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It was a mediocre movie made thoroughly enjoyable and entirely worth the price of admission by a picture-perfect (sorry) Dorian Gray. The actor playing him, Stuart Townsend, has previously only been in Queen of the Damned, where he played Lestat. Man, what a pair of starting roles. Anyhow, Mr. Gray has a lot of lovely dialogue, perfect mannerisms, and charisma that oozes off the screen. We sat around afterward discussing the various things that one could do if one got a hold of the portrait of Dorian Gray-- for example, would painting over it be an intelligent method of hiding it, or would the enchantment operate in such a way that he would actually turn into the small Flemish fishing village with picturesque bluebells that one had decided on for camouflage? Such potential in that. "Do my nefarious bidding, or I'll turn you over to Jackson Pollock! Bwahahahaha!" Or Andy Warhol. He could find himself relentlessly duplicated and in a variety of designer colors.
The rest of the movie consists of Sean Connery, massive amounts of property damage, more explosions than seem really necessary in a movie set in 1900, fun special effects, Sean Connery, and a plot that was more intelligent than most of the plots they come up with for this sort of movie. It should have been more visually spectacular than it was; the effects only reached 'fun', not 'awe-inspiring', and they did not capture the visual look of the comic, which is a shame, because the look is one of the things I actually like about the comic. Along with Mina Harker, but she transferred over pretty well.
It followed the recent Movie Law that any graphic novel adaptation involving Alan Moore or anybody who knows Alan Moore must for some inexplicable reason be filmed in Prague. I am still attempting to figure out why this has become a law of nature, but it has-- From Hell was shot in Prague, Mike Mignola's Hellboy is shooting in Prague, Kabuki is set to shoot in Prague. This explains why Neil Gaiman has yet to get the Death movie off the ground-- he knows Alan Moore personally, yet he keeps attempting to make a film in New York City. Obviously, he should duplicate New York City in a sound stage in Prague, and the film will then go swimmingly.
Off to novel.
The rest of the movie consists of Sean Connery, massive amounts of property damage, more explosions than seem really necessary in a movie set in 1900, fun special effects, Sean Connery, and a plot that was more intelligent than most of the plots they come up with for this sort of movie. It should have been more visually spectacular than it was; the effects only reached 'fun', not 'awe-inspiring', and they did not capture the visual look of the comic, which is a shame, because the look is one of the things I actually like about the comic. Along with Mina Harker, but she transferred over pretty well.
It followed the recent Movie Law that any graphic novel adaptation involving Alan Moore or anybody who knows Alan Moore must for some inexplicable reason be filmed in Prague. I am still attempting to figure out why this has become a law of nature, but it has-- From Hell was shot in Prague, Mike Mignola's Hellboy is shooting in Prague, Kabuki is set to shoot in Prague. This explains why Neil Gaiman has yet to get the Death movie off the ground-- he knows Alan Moore personally, yet he keeps attempting to make a film in New York City. Obviously, he should duplicate New York City in a sound stage in Prague, and the film will then go swimmingly.
Off to novel.
