Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:01:05 PM
Frank Miller is making his solo-directorial debut with Will Eisner's The Spirit. This looks to be as iconic a film as are the comics on which it is based.
I can't say I'm a big fan of
Sin City, either the comics or the movie. I will grant that, in either medium, it is a visually stunning product. Maybe one just has to develop a taste for it.
300 on the other hand is a movie I return to again and again.
I am intrigued to see what Frank Miller will do with
The Spirit, given that he has sole responsibility for the film's writing
and directing. Something that really intrigues me is Miller's iconoclastic attitude toward Hollywood's political correctness and glorification of the metrosexual. The latest San Diego Comic Con magazine (available for download as Adobe PDF
here) includes these comments from Miller:
CCM: "... What convinced you that [Gabriel Macht] was the guy for the role [of the Spirit]?"
FM: "My model, in a way, was Chris Reeve's Superman, meaning some actor I'd never seen before who I got to meet as Superman. I want the audience to meet The Spirit as The Spirit. Gabriel stood out because,first and foremost, Hollywood produces a great many very goo male actors, but very, very few who are able to portray men as men."
One certainly doesn't one of Hollywood's current crop of sensitive man, playing the role of the tough-guy, lady's man that is The Spirit. This one should be good.