thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-04-01, Moreno R. wrote:
I finally saw the movie. Or, I should say, the TWO movies. I thought that they had modified the story from the Comic book for the movie, but instead they only added another movie parallel to the first. A movie where people talk in a different way, dress in a different way, the world is different, etc.
Even if I didn't remember the comics, it's easy to see the added parts: people talk twice as much, in a different tone, they seems romans (they seems extra from "The Gladiator", to be blunt), and they want to send troops in Iraq to save their children.
The jarring disconnection between half of the movie with people who say "we must go there to fight", and "don't listen to corrupt politicians that don't want that" and the other half with people who say "we must stand here to defend our way of life from this bigger empire that see itself as more powerful and civil, and don't listen to corrupt priests that want us to honor Gods more than people" is very noticeable.
I think that if they did not add the second movie, they would have made a much better story. (the comic book is a much better story). But they would have got a loss less money. The audience would not have felt that "feelgood" sensation of "we are the heroes", because if you see only the first movie, Vincent's interpretation is much more probable.
