tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819746931307977002.post3492091653804870028..comments2024-02-18T12:43:27.161+11:00Comments on SHADOWS: Comics to movies: please exercise cautionpeter jetnikoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03112662184294288528noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819746931307977002.post-39141019120834287402012-01-27T09:56:53.723+11:002012-01-27T09:56:53.723+11:00My point is that it shouldn't have been derive...My point is that it shouldn't have been derived from something like Murder by Decree when it was, by its own declaration, an adaptation of From Hell. I didn't say it ruined the entire film for me (that was done by a lot of other things as well), my gripe with it was that it was too much at odds with the approach of its source material.<br /><br />PJpeter jetnikoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03112662184294288528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819746931307977002.post-49586725909161243322012-01-27T09:55:54.187+11:002012-01-27T09:55:54.187+11:00This comment has been removed by the author.peter jetnikoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03112662184294288528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819746931307977002.post-61492831367871659572012-01-27T09:44:59.788+11:002012-01-27T09:44:59.788+11:00Actuallly "From Hell" the film is more d...Actuallly "From Hell" the film is more derived from the 70's film "Murder by Decree" in its structure.. Its a film in which Sherlock Holmes and Watson (Christopher Plummer and James Mason)research the Whitechapel Murders. It uses the same crazy theories of masonic ritual murder via Sir William Gull that Stephen Knight penned in "Jack the Ripper, the final solution". There have been a few films based on this book. In Murder by Decree, the killer has his pupils totally dilated as he swoops in on his first victim. Is it cocaine, or is it the exstacy of bloodlust? Perhaps it is a force beyond nature, as the Alan Moore comic asserts. I am not sure why this tiny device ruined a whole film for you. From Hell was enjoyable, not original, as little original material is produced in Hollywood, but certainly not problematised by a single visual conceitMr Mediocrityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16204847354295398847noreply@blogger.com