A History of Violence
As we get rolling with our last reading assignment of the semester, please post your initial reactions here. What do you find most interesting, compelling, frustrating about Wagner & Locke's graphic novel?
posted by Trevor Dodge @ 5:44 AM
4 Comments:
At 10:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
Well, I picked this up intending to read half of it and before I realized it I almost read the whole thing. I would have easily if I hadnt needed to read for other classes. I'm not usually into mob stories, but theres something compelling about this that keeps me reading, it must be the impendeding sense of disaster.
I havenet seen the movie, so I dont know the story.
Great illustration too.
-Maeve
At 9:37 PM,
Anonymous said…
zachary . . . .
was disappointed with this story in both forms(graphic novel and film)but had a few points of interest to hold onto. to start with, the film did not keep my attention and by the end of the film I could only watch it for the amusement of the dialog which I found very entertaining. On a positive note I felt that the movie shook up the plot a little more than the comic.
Concerning the graphic novel, I really didn't feel much from the story and wasn't surprised that it was made as a film because it seemed a like a predictable Hollywood picture. The only thing that interested me is the artwork.
Vincent Locke is a master of Illustration!
At 2:50 AM,
Anonymous said…
I agree with zachary, I was definitely more impressed with the artwork than the story. It seemed like a cliche Hollywood action flic without much substance. I was excited to see the movie because of the director, but was very disappointed especially because of the cheesy dialogue. I couldn't even finish it. But one thing I did enjoy about the comic is that i flew threw it pretty fast. The story was very fluid and and the pacing was nice. I couldn't put it down until i had finished it. But overall i just thought it was ok, especially compared to all the other great comics we had to read for this class. (by the way, why did we have to read it?)
At 10:30 AM,
Trevor Dodge said…
Good question, Jennifer. I chose History of Violence for us to both read and watch because the overwhelming majority of films that are adapted from comics are made from superheroes comics, and I wanted to steer away from those. As we discussed in class, there are vast differences between the film's pacing, thematics and development, and in that sense it's very different than most films that are adapted from comics. I'd be willing to wager that most people who watch A History of Violence outside of our class probably don't know it was first a graphic novel, which is quite unlike Sin City or even Ghost World.
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