Re: The Spirit teaser--It's not on its way, it's here.

On Apr 22, 11:19 am, "Pat O'Neill" <patdone...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> De gustibus non est disputandum. I...and others I know...thought both
> films captured the spirit (sorry...) of the characters while having a
> sense of fun that made them acceptable to a wider audience. A
> straight, somber version of either would have been dismissed as drivel
> by the vast majority of movie goers.

This would be the vast majority of movie-goers who didn't go to either
one?

$45 million to make The Phantom, $17.3 million made back in the US.  I
don't know other countries, but that's way not enough.
$40 million to make The Shadow, $32 million made in the US.  Better,
but still not enough.

I can't talk too much about The Shadow, I don't really know the
original and the film was so murky and confused I don't remember much
of.

The Phantom, as a person who was reading the Australian reprints at
the time, and who had friends who don't like comics... it didn't work
for either.

The "sense of fun" wasn't a help, it was at the expense of the film.
"Hey, look, this is drivel" was the "fun" they were having.

Yes, the comic-fan audience is small, but they are the primary
audience.  They're the people walking in the door in the first week,
the people who create the buzz upon which a film lives or dies.

Sure, you have to make the film appeal to a wide audience, but only a
moron would do that at the expense of the people who are going to make
or break your film.

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