Frank Miller interview
Here's the Frank Miller interview I referred to in class this morning.
posted by Trevor Dodge @ 6:40 PM
Virtual think & type-out-loud space for Literature Seminar: Illuminated Manuscripts
posted by Trevor Dodge @ 6:40 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:35 AM,
Anonymous said…
I found Miller's views on turning his work into movies to be surprisingly positive. After hearing that he never saw a movie made from one of his characters, I was expecting him to have a fairly jaded view of the whole deal. But instead, it seemed like the love and connection he had for the character he created was what made him aprehensive of seeing her identity shifted, not any sort of fanatically possesive nature. This view translated pretty well in his own history of writing (or rewriting Batman. he believes that these characters become collective commodities, and that at a certain point they are outside of the creators control Not in the commercial or ownership right's sense, (though this also clearly happens) but in a cultural sense. I found the level of comfort and sanity that he had in the face of all these theatrical translations of comic books to be pretty amazing.
At 1:22 PM,
Anonymous said…
zach thinks . . .
That Frank Miller has arrived in the mainstream comic world as an Icon. Like Alan Moore, he can sell a comic on his name alone. Maybe that fact gives Miller a very lax outlook on the translation from his comics to the big screen. so what's the difference between Moore and Miller that make one so cynical and the other so positive. Well I'm not sure there are any exact reasons but it seems that in the later half of Miller's career he has embraced the mainstream not only in the translation of his earlier work (Daredevil, batman year one, sin city) but in his new superhero comics. Unfortunately his work now seems a little bland and watered down. Maybe Moore's cynicism keeps his edge for I feel his s writing is as fresh and creative as iit was twenty years ago.
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