Comic to Movie Translations
Has anyone here seen the Daredevil trailer? I absolutely HATE the costume design for Elektra. Okay, a red swimsuit and red thigh high stockings probably aren't the most practical things to wear for a ninja, but this is a superhero movie, for crying out loud! Black leather worked in The Matrix, but that doesn't mean EVERY single comic book movie has to follow suit. The Elektra look is just WRONG. Worse, they seem to be trying to match the comic books with it! If the Elektra comic changes her costume to the black leather she wears in the movie, I will stop buying it, regardless of Greg Horn's cover art. BAH.
One translation I have to enjoy though is Rebecca Romjin-Stamos' Mystique in X-Men. The process that turned the model/actress into a scaled, yellow-eyed, red-haired, naked shapeshifting martial arts fighter took about 10 hours in the first film's making. Since the paint and makeup went over every inch of the actress' body, she basically has to bare every part (all her makeup people are probably women or gay), she had to endure a lot. Plus, the fumes reportedly made her faint or puke blue vomit... Eww. Anyway, in a recent interview, she revealed some stuff. Thankfully, Mystique will STILL be naked and blue, but putting on the makeup has now been shortened to about three hours. And she's gotten used to the fumes. Maybe she's addicted already.
Haven't seen The Incredible Hulk in his movie form yet, not that I'm excited. So many comic book movies and videogame films are coming. Compromises are probably a given, but sometimes I think creators and filmmakers just have to be brave and do the seemingly impossible. Yes, maybe we DO expect yellow spandes, Cyclops.
Has anyone here seen the Daredevil trailer? I absolutely HATE the costume design for Elektra. Okay, a red swimsuit and red thigh high stockings probably aren't the most practical things to wear for a ninja, but this is a superhero movie, for crying out loud! Black leather worked in The Matrix, but that doesn't mean EVERY single comic book movie has to follow suit. The Elektra look is just WRONG. Worse, they seem to be trying to match the comic books with it! If the Elektra comic changes her costume to the black leather she wears in the movie, I will stop buying it, regardless of Greg Horn's cover art. BAH.
One translation I have to enjoy though is Rebecca Romjin-Stamos' Mystique in X-Men. The process that turned the model/actress into a scaled, yellow-eyed, red-haired, naked shapeshifting martial arts fighter took about 10 hours in the first film's making. Since the paint and makeup went over every inch of the actress' body, she basically has to bare every part (all her makeup people are probably women or gay), she had to endure a lot. Plus, the fumes reportedly made her faint or puke blue vomit... Eww. Anyway, in a recent interview, she revealed some stuff. Thankfully, Mystique will STILL be naked and blue, but putting on the makeup has now been shortened to about three hours. And she's gotten used to the fumes. Maybe she's addicted already.
Haven't seen The Incredible Hulk in his movie form yet, not that I'm excited. So many comic book movies and videogame films are coming. Compromises are probably a given, but sometimes I think creators and filmmakers just have to be brave and do the seemingly impossible. Yes, maybe we DO expect yellow spandes, Cyclops.
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