tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post2437292652357678924..comments2024-02-18T08:45:16.295-08:00Comments on The Film Connoisseur: Book to Film Comparison: The Incal and The Fifth ElementFranco Macabrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-61023267464125425912017-07-18T18:02:30.707-07:002017-07-18T18:02:30.707-07:00As Francisco said, Benson Valerian and the City of...As Francisco said, Benson <i>Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets</i>. The comic it is based off of was illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières who also stroyboarded <i>The Fifth Element</i> with Moebius. I haven't seen it yet, it's due out on the 21st, but it looks awesome!scaper8https://www.blogger.com/profile/10075337211491811349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-25572932605080579082017-01-03T12:54:05.168-08:002017-01-03T12:54:05.168-08:00I hear ya Devon, The Incal is certainly not an eas...I hear ya Devon, The Incal is certainly not an easy read, its complex as hell. I mean, I'm sure one reading is not enough, which is what I love about, that I can revisit and relive it and discover new things about it in every passing. <br /><br />I cannot bad mouth The Incal honestly because to me its a masterpiece, to grand masters doing what they do best. <br /><br />I do agree it has some elements of dune, but thats probably because Jodorowsky reused his ideas from his aborted film on The Incal, which makes sense. It does have some similarities, but he twists them so much that in the end, they are very different books. We could say Jodorowsky was inspired by Herbert while writing The Incal. <br /><br />As a filmmaker of course, there's no denying Jodorowskys an excentric, but I think that is what makes him great, he is strange, off beat, against the grain. I wouldnt want him any other way. He is a unique filmmaker and writer. Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-77077310164618558452016-11-18T11:47:02.163-08:002016-11-18T11:47:02.163-08:00I must be the only one that thought the Incal fell...I must be the only one that thought the Incal fell very flat.. a book probably isnt good if you have to read it several times for it to make sense.. but starting with a few things.<br />1. the naming of things in the incal is lazy and annoying.. the Homeo Whores for instance, sounds like a cool idea, but what does Homeo mean? Similar to.. so he is going to be paying for sort of whores? that doesnt make sense on close inspection, but its indicitive of the way things are named in the comic, they ALMOST sound cool and sci fi, but really just sound childish. Like the Meta Baron, who has his Meta Boat, and his Meta ship and meta bunker and his side kick meta robin. wait no not that last one, but like batman he has a bunch of tools and equipment that gets his name on it.. the guys who make the evil egg use the nefarious Techno Technos who use "techno" technology.. and no they are not doing early 90s trance music. <br /><br />You mention in the article that you dont see much of Dune in the comic, and you are right that most of the input is the art he and Moebius did for dune. you saw the documentary(more on that in a moment) so you have to know about the scene where they train paul with a robot, that scene is in the comic as well(though not in the actual dune, but as he said at the end of that documentary he was just "raping herbert" his words not mine) But there are other things.. Difools son being genetically bred to be the perfect whatever that he was in the book that made him all androginous is similar to paul being the product of centuries of genetic tampering to get the Kwisatz Haderach. But to me the worst theft is that of the Doctor. in Dune the doctors get a special conditioning that ensures thier loyalty to the person they have to serve. dune is a paranoid universe. This conditioning is hard to break but in dune they sort of manage it with the Atraiedes doctor. in the incal there is also the imperial doctor who mentions in an off hand comment he has "conditioning". like many things in the book its not really epxlained, or rather its just a convenient plot device brought up to move the story because it counldnt move anyother way and then forgotten.. never brought up again<br /><br />that it took seven years to write is a travesty, its not that long and really shouldnt have taken that long, most of the work was done for dune already.. its not a sign of a good book, but a writer who is just rambling along.. this is where the coincedences come in. like the garbage mutants in the beginning coming back at the end and somehow thier leader is a "good soul" but everything you see about him till that point is he is the leader of a gang of murderous mutants and wants to take over the surface world.. but in the end he just happens to be good because they needed someone and rather than introduce a new character they dredged up one that probably was wrong for it<br /><br />and the reason the movie didnt get made is he wanted it to be like 10 hours long.. seriously he mentions that in passing in the documentary and then ignores it and keeps saying he doesnt understand why the didn tlet him do it.. because NO ONE is sitting through a 10 hour movie.. <br /><br /><br /><br />Gong-Fu Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06924939442953488459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-69488972717337932902015-07-28T07:10:19.196-07:002015-07-28T07:10:19.196-07:00Hey Sergei, you'll be happy to know that Luc B...Hey Sergei, you'll be happy to know that Luc Besson is currently working on another big science fiction film called Valerian and The city of a Thousand Planets, it's slated to be released in 2017. I'm really looking forward to that one because its based on a comic book from Jean Paul Meziers, a contemporary artist in the same vein as Moebius. I'm really excited for this one, I think like The Fifth Element did when it was first released, it will blow our minds! It's good to know that at least some directors are still willing to do far out science fiction films such as these! Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-71541050172499739382015-07-27T06:48:07.681-07:002015-07-27T06:48:07.681-07:00Agree, his earlier films are even more symbolic, l...Agree, his earlier films are even more symbolic, like for example Fando and Lis....boy that was a tough watch! His films haven't changed much though, he keeps making them a challenge, it's as if he was making a film in a special code for use to try and decipher, I've always enjoyed that about them. <br /><br />I also wish someone would print his storyboards for Dune, that book alone would be so awesome to read....you can really tell he had the whole thing planned out all the way to the end. <br /><br />The reason films are less creative is because big studios are extremely conservative and the ratings board (also known as the MPAA or the Motion Picture Association of America) has a stronghold over the type of films that manage to get made. Studios are scared shitless that the MPAA will give them an R rating or an X, because then it means your film is unmarketable, less people will see it. So studios make squeaky clean movies to avoid this. They want the PG-13 because it will reach a bigger audience. This is the reason why crazy, bizarre ideas don't make it out. And when they do, for example MACHETE KILLS, they get the 'R' and automatically, less kids will go see these movies, which means the film will tank at the box office. <br /><br />It's very rare nowadays for an R rating to make a lot of millions, but it does happen. For example Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015), an amazing movie I strongly recommend everyone to give a chance to. That one was an R and was a huge success, so it does happen, but its rare. I do miss those days of crazier, offbeat movies that used to get made during the 70's and 80's. Even horror films have gotten the shaft, we don't get as many horror films anymore. Not like in the 80's when horror was king. <br /><br />Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293273378239831747.post-2674022841555360972015-07-24T12:03:39.427-07:002015-07-24T12:03:39.427-07:00I love this grafic novel. I was 14, when I got my ...I love this grafic novel. I was 14, when I got my hands on this book and it just blew me away. So much detail in every panel. I really see this book as a movie. <br /><br />Jodorowsky is a genius, but I'm not a big fan of his early work, it's too existential for me. <br /><br />"I wanted to create a prophet", he said, oh, and he did. I really wish if someone can publish the storyboard for his Dune. <br /><br />I wonder, why people got less creative these days? You don't see any Ghost in the Shell or Fifth Element these days. People suddenly stopped doing goofy things. Sergei Kolobashkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01262378959453150501noreply@blogger.com