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Scarlett Johansson as a Femme Fatale in Frank Miller's film adaptation of Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT? Effing Awesome!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... with all the daft decisions in the land of LaLas recently - here's one that's just right! Frank Miller has the eye for the curves, the face and the look of femme fatales. He's conjured them out of ink and paper - and in bringing them to life, he's chosen perfectly in casting Scarlett as the femme in this adaptation.
I can't wait to see how he casts THE SPIRIT himself... but this was a great second step - remember, he cast Sam Jackson as The Octopus - and I'd kill to read this script, I bet it's bleeding brilliant.
How do you want to see this film brought to life?
Hey folks, Harry here again - I guess I missed this story by Quint with who they cast as THE SPIRIT. And.... I really have no clue what to think about that casting. We'll see.
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Cool! More Frank Miller goodness! And anything with Scarlett is cool, even the Nanny Diaries.
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Gabriel Macht...remember?
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...it was called 'The Black Dahlia.' And she was horribly miscast, I don't care how va-va-voom she is. Hopefully she's learned a thing or two since then.
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I could do her all year. Once I get the gastric bypass surgery I'll shoot her a text.
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That she's probably already shot her part for SIN CITY 2, and Frank Miller developed a good enough working relationship with her to offer the role.
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Maybe he can get some cred back....
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Have not been impressed by her acting abilities at all as of yet...
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Sam Jackson is like Wolverine... he's everywhere at the same time.
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Lets hope he learned alot on the sin city set,this could be a great big-fun filled great movie.
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And her mouth is weird.
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Have you nay-sayers seen LOST IN TRANSLATION and MATCH POINT?! She'll do a great job!
...It's just too bad that the movie itself is going to suck so much wind, I fear for the test audiences that will be subject to it first! -
I agree that she has already tried and failed to play a femme fatale. As we learned from Black Dahlia, just because Scarlett can look like a femme fatale in still photographs, she does not necessarily have the emotional complexity to pull off a living, breathing femme fatale on the screen.
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Hey, I think Scarlett is a good actress too! I don't, however, think she's a femme fatale, no matter how much she may look like one.
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has a one note acting career.Mope around delivering lines like you're constantly hitting the bong and you'll be an enigmatic indy star.
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Was she?
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That was Hilary Swank who was miscast in that one, among just about everyone but Aaron Eckhart who was pretty much wasted. Yet there was nothing even remotely femme fatale about Scarlett in that movie - she had the girlfriend-who-looks-worried-in-all-her-scenes role. Not remotely dangerous. Unless the definition of femme fatale just got a whole lot broader to allow just scowling to qualify one as a nefarious bitch. And while she does basically just play the same thing each time out to varied degrees of externalized angst, I quite liked her in Scoop. She kind of played the female version of the Woody Allen double that winds up in movies he doesn't act in, even though he was in it.
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...would you prefer "noir actress"? I still maintain that she was out of place in that movie. The way the camera introduced her character was all very stylized and arch, and then she opened her mouth and sounded like a woman circa 2006 playing dress-up.
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Can act but much like her hotness she is a bit overrated..nice tits and bod butherface..eh its ok..
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Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction. you know this to be true.
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I may ask SLJ to make a speech at my wedding. He says yes to everything else!
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that's all she have. No talent. No sexiness. Simply fugly. People drooling over her still amazes me. There are soooo many better-looking actresses out there. Not to mention talented.
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...and Scarlett can't act. Sin City was a cool film in that finally someone made a literal translation of a comic, but the comics themselves where only fun as coloring books. 300 sucked as well. Martha Washington was the last good shit he wrote.
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She isn't a great actress and doesn't look that hot either. So why is everybody so crazy about her?
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esp. Barbarella. I will never, ever, ever, tire of looking at Scarlett Johansson, end of story.
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She's trying to squeeze two more films into her pre-strike schedule. Just make sure to cut a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
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gastric bypass so they can "live the dream"
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Just watch Austin Powers 2
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He is NOT a hack.
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stick-thin, untalented, shrill, with that Mary Tyler Moore trapezoidal mouth and no chin... the only role I didn't hate her in was in Boogie Nights... "Heather, your character's a tweaked-out bimbo." Great casting. Other than that, ugh. Good riddance.
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She cant act. Fat Harry, why must you geek about everything?
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Perfect!
Now, let's see Geoffrey Rush as Carrion!
And let's just say NO to Angelina Jolie as P'Gell, okay? -
The guy's a loony freak. I foresee terrible troubles on the set, as misogynistic Miller tries to bully his leading lady and the rest of the cast.
Anyone see the poster for the movie that Miller created? He apparently can't draw a powerful but good-looking guy without making him look like an overmuscled pansy. -
boobs? yes.
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I wouldn't say Miller's version of The Spirit looks like" "an overmuscled pansy", but it's no where near Eisner's original. Why can they cast Black actors in White villian roles but not in White hero roles?
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...that may be the least-informed statement I have seen anyone make on this site. If you think the guy who wrote Batman: Year One, Dark Knight Returns, and Sin City is a hack, maybe you should just stick to actual coloring books. I hear there's a good one out now where Darkwing Duck teams up with Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers. Should be right up your alley.
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25 years ago, an animated version of 'The Spirit' was in pre-production with Gary Kurtz producing and Will Eisner heavily involved. Now,with the Spirit comic not exactly setting local comic book stores on fire, and Frank Miller, who's best days, it seems, are behind him, I wouldn't be surprised if this never makes it to the multiplex.
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please leave a link to a website where I may purchase said coloring book.
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Love The Spirit, but Miller isn't the man for this.
Sin City was a caricature of the real thing. Eisner was the real thing. Plus, Miller is mostly humorless and probably unable to capture Eisner's ironic sense of fun.
After waiting for a Spirit movie for decades, all we're going to get is Sin City 3. I don't know whether to yawn or cry. -
Lol, touche`
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He may seem a certain way as a comic book artist-- and make no mistake, he's one of the VERY VERY FEW superhero comic writers/artists worth a warm shit-- but directing a movie is very different from writing or drawing a comic book. Listen, we know he's not a moron, we know he's not a sell-out... why not give him the benefit of the doubt? And I have no idea how kooky he is or isn't, but this is Hollywood after all, so it's not like nobody's ever dealt with an eccentric before. I think some of you are reading too much into this. So the poster wasn't classic Eisner, okay. But if someone was going to direct a SPIRIT movie, would you rather it be someone who hadn't won an Eisner Award? Then we'd get "THE PHANTOM, II" ohhhh cheap shot, I must be drunk
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He is mostly unproven as a director at the moment. It may turn out that he'll need to stick with comics in order to be any good.
But geez, let the man direct his movie before anyone starts calling him a hack. Let's remember that some of the coolest moments in Batman Begins originally came from Frank Miller in Year One. -
I should have specified more clearly that I meant he's become a hack. Yes, DKR is maybe the coolest comic ever constructed....yes, Ronin is my favorite comic of all time, yes I was obsessed with his Daredevil before most of the Fan Boys on this TB were even born...but...in my humble opinion.....Sin City sucks.....300 sucks....DK2 artwork sucks.....and it's been years since he's actually been "Frank Miller". I don't think Hollywood is gonna help the situation. If he wants to direct something, let's forget about this wack ass WB "Dark Knight"and let him direct a hand drawn DKR animated feature. Cartoons should stay cartoons. Just my opinion.
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Really?
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... Because the dude's basically a violence-obsessed nihilist. Don't get me wrong, I love his comics work, but he's just wrong to helm The Spirit, which though it had i's moments of violence and grittiness, it also possessed a certain homor, wittiness and whimsy... somthing that won't be coming outta Miller in a million years.
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One more thing...Miller jacked the whole Hi-Contrast, Sin City art style from Hugo Pratt.
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....since Miller's put out something truly great. I definitely agree with that. He seems to get bored quickly with certain subjects, and when his passion and creativity for a subject are gone, they're just gone. A good example is Dark Knight Strikes again, which paled next to Returns. Maybe he's moving to movies because his passion for comics needs to recharge a little. In any case, I hope he can find the same voice in film that he has found on the page in past work.
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Harry, you just say "femme fatale"-- does anyone know if she's specifically playing the role of The Spirit's #1 femme fatale, P'Gell?
If she is, I have to say "bad call" on Miller's casting here. She's cute, and I can see her in a piece like this, but she just ain't got the gravitas to pull off a character as intense as P'Gell. Nor does she have the dark, sultry looks for her, either. Just sayin... -
when's that flick coming out?
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• Scarlett Johansson is amazing
• You're fucking retarded
• Scarlett's bosoms are but one part of her appeal
• Scarlett is a fine actress
• u r gay & don't know what acting is
• You fucking suck, and should eat a jumbo Costco family-pak bag of dicks
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Couldn't agree more!
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She wasn't a femme fatale but she was still supposed to play it up a bit. I like her, but she seemed like she confused "sexy" and "tired". Maybe she'll correct it in playing a real femme fatale this time.
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Depalma directing a James Ellroy adaptation with Scarlett Johansson...how could it go wrong? ...Oh that's how.
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then you're a flaming homosexual
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i'm just saying she is hot
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Did a blond with big boobs recently turn down your advances?
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Aug 17, 2007 11:27:36 PM CDT
I find it hard to logically discuss Scarlett Johansonn
by daddylonghead
Some things in life transcend your shallow considerations, AnimalStructure. I mean, did you see her in "The Prestige?" My god, she had my Select Comfort Sleep Number dialled right in on those magnificent... and her acting was fine. Nothing wrong with it, very good acting. I don't want to argue about her acting. Remember GHOST WORLD? I do, vaguely. Even back then, she had that amazing low-pitched voice. Ohh, Scarlett.
And the other day at the utilities office, they had a magazine in the waiting area with an article about how Woody Allen was putting her in 4 or 5 of his dozen 2006/2007 films. And frankly I don't give a shit about Woody Allen, but he's a famous director, and in the magazine articles he was saying how she's clever and a good actress and stuff. And then there was a picure of her in like a vintage swimsuit. I don't know about the brown hair on her... she'll always be blond to me. Wait, where was I? Oh yeah. You suck, Scarlett Johansonn is amazing, ergo propter sum QED. -
He loves "The Cell" and thought it was "dope". Ironically, he/she (both?) uses that term a lot. Also thinks EVERY Frank Oz film is shit. Every one.
And sorry to correct you, but Scarlett's bosoms are TWO parts of her appeal, if you're using the plural. ;)
Bloodhound gang shoulda had Scarlett on the cover of their album. -
She's more talented than other equally hot girls (and there are few other equally hot girls) although her last few movies she didn't seem to do as well. Match Point was fantastic but she couldn't seem to find the right note. And my feelings on Black Dahlia are a matter of public record.
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Is a film where she gives a good performance that's significantly different from most of her roles. But I think what's good about her is the same thing that's good about Robert Downey Jr. (hear me out): she tends to play variations on the same character (herself, arguably), but she's very good at bringing natural mannerisms and inflections to her roles that make them seem like real, identifiable people, even moreso than most people who make a living out of "playing themselves." It's the same reason she was probably all wrong for 'The Black Dahlia,' and I still think she shouldn't be cast in anything and everything. I mean, Ain't It Cool News is practically the No Paul Walkers Club. How is countering someone's argument that she's a bad actor with "Durr, who cares, hawtness" not the exact same thing? I probably can't even count the number of times I've been accused of being gay for thinking Johansson is overexposed on two hands. And you know, maybe I am gay; so what about it? All that means is that I have a better perspective on the situation than most of you do.
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was a movie that I think Paul Walker did a decent job in
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I actually thought he was okay in 'Eight Below' too, although I do think he's kind of a mediocre actor. But my point was more about how people here react to him and all of the perceived breaks that he gets for being popular with the ladies.
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How were you supposed to be a Mastermind when they wouldn't even let you use the same water fountain? Unless he's supposed to be a moonshining pimp, in which case, awesome.
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Just like your girlfriends
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What the FUCK? I never noticed she was doing anything besides standing around making me weep bitterly... she's sooooo dreamy.
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