Looking Foward to The Spirit
Now I’m a guy that likes good old pulps and comics. Nothing better than kicking back with a Robert Leslie Bellem Dan Turner mystery pulp story or a classic Bob Kane/ Bill Finger Batman comic. So of course I’m looking forward to the new Frank Miller film based on Will Eisner’s ground breaking newspaper comic book, The Spirit. The trailer shows the film to be in that murky shadow infested noir tradition peppered with frothy pulp/ comic book dialog, like “They call me the Octopus because I have eight of everything!” Of course being Frank Miller there is going to be a lot of angst and ambiguity on the part of the protagonist’s motives (Miller has a thing about not letting good guys be good guys, they’re just not as bad as the villains, as in Sin City) but that’s okay as long as the hero has his mask, red tie (love that joke in the trailer) and Commisioner Dolan to chastise him I’ll be happy.
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