Anyone got a take on the "From Hell" graphic novel
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 12:40 pm
Some spoilers for the movie "From Hell" may follow... although if you've an interest in Ripper-ology you've had 120 years to become unspoiled so good luck with that.
I saw this movie (From Hell, the one starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Bilbo Baggins there) over the weekend and wondered if anyone has a recommendation for the graphic novel that Alan Moore (Watchmen) did.
I missed the movie when it was originally run in theatres, as it came out while Mike Sousa and I were working on "No Time To Squeal." I didn't want to be influenced by any Ripper-based content while in the process of writing our game. I suppose it was a good thing, although given the same source material (the Ripper crimes) some of the stuff that we put together for our game ended up like some of the stuff in the movie. In particular is the room where Mary Kelly was slain in real life. I had been scouring the net to try to find details of that room so that Mike and I could put those items (and arrange them so) in the game. I think we did a good job. The movie had the room as quite small with there scarcely being any room from the open door to the bed, but I don't recall exactly where their fireplace was.
I did dig the movie, although I felt that it was unfair to the Ripper letters. In my opinion, the reason that people still talk about those crimes so many years later is due to, in a large part, the content that he sent to the Central News Agency. If you're going to take the name of your graphic novel / movie from them you could do with not being so condescendingly dismissive, especially since a good portion of those who have reviewed the case believe that three of them are quite genuine. Er, anyway, back to the film: in comic book movies I find that you often have those moments where you point out things you see on the screen that the "average" movie-goer (i.e., one with a life) would not notice. Stuff like, "hey, that's Nightcrawler," or "Hey, JJJ said 'Eddie,' maybe he means Eddie Brock, who became Venom." So for me personally I liked seeing some details make it into the movie (the fact that the chalk writing was ordered to be washed away, the "fried kidney" and so forth).
At any rate, having never read the graphic novel I guess I'll give it a go.
I saw this movie (From Hell, the one starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Bilbo Baggins there) over the weekend and wondered if anyone has a recommendation for the graphic novel that Alan Moore (Watchmen) did.
I missed the movie when it was originally run in theatres, as it came out while Mike Sousa and I were working on "No Time To Squeal." I didn't want to be influenced by any Ripper-based content while in the process of writing our game. I suppose it was a good thing, although given the same source material (the Ripper crimes) some of the stuff that we put together for our game ended up like some of the stuff in the movie. In particular is the room where Mary Kelly was slain in real life. I had been scouring the net to try to find details of that room so that Mike and I could put those items (and arrange them so) in the game. I think we did a good job. The movie had the room as quite small with there scarcely being any room from the open door to the bed, but I don't recall exactly where their fireplace was.
I did dig the movie, although I felt that it was unfair to the Ripper letters. In my opinion, the reason that people still talk about those crimes so many years later is due to, in a large part, the content that he sent to the Central News Agency. If you're going to take the name of your graphic novel / movie from them you could do with not being so condescendingly dismissive, especially since a good portion of those who have reviewed the case believe that three of them are quite genuine. Er, anyway, back to the film: in comic book movies I find that you often have those moments where you point out things you see on the screen that the "average" movie-goer (i.e., one with a life) would not notice. Stuff like, "hey, that's Nightcrawler," or "Hey, JJJ said 'Eddie,' maybe he means Eddie Brock, who became Venom." So for me personally I liked seeing some details make it into the movie (the fact that the chalk writing was ordered to be washed away, the "fried kidney" and so forth).
At any rate, having never read the graphic novel I guess I'll give it a go.