New Spirit Poster Attempts to Distances Itself from that Other Frank Miller Film

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 16, 2008

The Spirit listens to his Sin City scream

If there is one complaint that I have been hearing over and over from folks about Frank Miller’s upcoming film The Spirit, it is that it feels like a knock-off of Sin City. At least, visually, that assessment is right. The difference is that The Spirit has a very slapstick nature — something that might drive Sin City fans off the deep end — especially if The Spirit turns out to be a cartoony second-rate Sin City wannabe, as some have predicted. One particular part of The Spirit that has mirrored Sin City has been the posters — they are almost carbon copies of each other. To illustrate this point, I would like to enter the following comparisons into evidence:

Not all perfect matches, but I think you get my point — The Spirit feels a lot like Sin City, there are no two ways around it. And with the release of a brand new poster, which was sent to us by the fine folks at BadTaste.it, it appears that maybe the folks at Lionsgate’s marketing department are starting to pick up on this, going away from the graphic novel-esque look at going to something a little sexier. As you can see below, the poster stays away from anything too comic-like, choosing to go with more of a mysterious masked man looking angry approach.

What do you think? Is it a fair comparison to Sin City, or am I off my rocker?

Related Reading:

Comment Policy: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Film School Rejects reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. We also reserve the right to modify any curse words in your comments and make you look like an idiot. Thank You!

JMoney

yeah totally different than Sin City, the colour scheme is black and red and Sin City's was.... oh wait

Mathieu Lalonde

Now it looks like a knock off of The Shadow... ;-)

Leon kennedy

of course it looks like sin city, he freaking made sin city. Obviously Robert
Rodriguez put that look that Miller created on film, the narrative edgy comic book
feel that has Graphic novel written all over it. But lets not forget, he trusted robert
to do something amazing with his greatest Novel, and he did he delivered a badass
movie, and so why wouldent miller take influence off what a True Film maker does,
and take it into his own hands.

Mladen

Wouldn't say the posters are really all that similar, but the two female posters each with their dominatrix attitude perfectly fits Miller's "all women are whores" writing style.
Regardless, anybody who has seen the trailers will have a hard time arguing that it doesn't look like Sin City.

In the end, Miller has taken a fun comic and run it through his own style so much that it doesn't resemble the source material any more. If ANY other screen-writer tried that, fans would be in uproar, but Miller gets a get out of jail card because he's written a few memorable Batman books.
Eisner deserves a bit better... at least he isn't adapting "A Contract with God" in Miller style.

Will Tell

I don't think Frank"M". will get away murder this time. There's no way this pictures going to be a success. It's too campy,or just plain bad. Frank's gotten so caught up in his own B.S. than he can't see straight.
I just wish another film could be made to fix this mess.

Tommy Kai

I went to the comic con panel and saw the footage they have and to be honest, I was a bit let down. It might be that I'm kind of seeing things out of context, like picking up a serial book in the middle of an arch, but, as pretty as it looks, it just doesn't feel that good.

Pendragon

No offense Tommy, but I don't understand why no one ever stands up "That's Crap!"
I'm not saying I don't do the same sometimes, but all us fanboys do is complain on the web & then face to face, we freeze up.
But this movie just looks horrible.
There more commentary from Miller & he's so full of himself it's not even funny

http://www.superherohype.com/news/spiritnews.ph...

New Spirit Poster Attempts to Distances Itself from that Other Frank Miller Film

Related Topics:

Related Reading: