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THE SPIRIT
movie, based on Will Eisner's detective newspaper comic strip in the late 1940s
and early 1950s, was written and directed by Frank Miller and released 2008.
We watched
it the other night. Being a fan of THE
SPIRIT by Eisner, I was happy the way the movie went along with the style of
the comic strip (with some exceptions).
I Googled it
to get some facts down before writing some comments about it and read that in
box office measurements it was considered a flop.
THE SPIRIT
was a fighter of crime in a big city. He
was a cop and was killed, or at least people thought he was killed. Actually, he lived underground in a graveyard
and devoted his life to fighting crime.
He wore a simple eye mask just like the Long Ranger.
I like the
comic strip because it showed just how rotten inner-city living can be. And the movie followed the same rule.
Near the end
of the movie, while The Spirit was
fighting a bad man I noticed in the background, on the side of an old building
or sign that said FIEFFER MEATS in big letters.
I think that was an Easter Egg.
Jules Feiffer wrote a book about super comicbook heroes and had drawn
the best seller SICK, SICK, SICK. He
also had a weekly cartoon on the front page of THE VILLAGE VOICE. He also may have worked on the assembly-line
of artists putting together THE SPIRIT daily at Eisner Studios.
I think it
may have been a box office box because it was ahead of its time, which is
strange itself, because the details was behind the times, back in the 40s. Confusing.
The main
thing I saw that Frank Miller did not stick with the SPIRIT story plot was THE
SPIRIT had an assistant, a street kid Uncle Tom-like teenager. It could stir racial feelings more than it
did back 70 years ago.
I thought it
was better than your regular today's super hero movie with a free Stan Lee
cameo.
Below are two SPIRIT stories to give you the jest of the plot:
And also:
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