Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by David Aiken (A) on June 09, 2007 at 14:47:06

In Reply to: RE: He-he....but really... posted by MMasztal on June 09, 2007 at 12:58:24

Can you make a valuable novel out of the story? You'd probably say yes. How about a series of paintings? An opera? A movie? Well, yes once again if they are done well.

Why not a comic book? It can be regarded as a series of pictures and a text. Both pictures and text can be artistically valuable so why can't the combination be so as well?

Is Frank Miller's graphic novel artistically valuable? Most definitely for some, and that's all that can be said for any art work. There isn't a single work of art that everyone likes.

Are there any subjects that should be reserved for some forms of art but not for others? Should a particular historical story be reserved for history books and not portrayed in artistic works? Should a particular story be reserved for some art forms and not others?

There's nothing wrong with making a comic book out of the story of Thermopylae. The important question is whether or not it's done well. In my view it isn't bad. It's not great but it's not bad. You can say that about most art works. Only a few are really great, only a few are really bad. The majority fall in the middle. I didn't think the movie was on the bad side of the middle. I haven't read the Miller book.




David Aiken