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Sitting under glass in the center of the exhibition room is an ancient book of prints with dirty corners, suggesting repeated page turnings on the part of ancient readers and encouraging us to spend time with these late-medieval comic books...
...Until July 14, we couldn't buy a good movie. The early summer was just painful to endure and I went to see X-Men knowing quite well that Bryan Singer's adaptation of the comic books would be a disaster, I'd bemoan the state of Hollywood once again, and regret the $15 I spent on a ticket and JuJubees. But what a pleasant surprise - the X-Men not only saved the world, but they also saved summer movie audiences. Singer's adaptation is lyrical, elegant and wonderfully intelligent; it has nuance, something that a comic book movie usually...
This is a deceptive message! For one thing, Chan is a comic foreigner, not a real action hero like Samuel L. Jackson. For another, when was the last time anyone heard him described as sexy, or even attractive? Chan is also Asian, not Asian-American, a distinction that is entirely neglected in the strip but is central to many. Until you can find several good counterexamples and not just one bad one, the stereotype unfortunately still stands...
...come Hollywood has always had such a difficult time when it comes to adapting comic books? It seems like such a simple task, yet for every gem like Blade, there seem to be six or seven duds like Judge Dredd. Which is why every time I think about Bryan Singer's big-screen version of X-Men, I get more and more amazed. Facing heavy studio pressure, an ever-shifting script, and the weight of an entire legion of diehard fanboys ready to critique everything from costumes to eye color, the Usual Suspects auteur somehow managed to make a movie...
...special pleasures. In the first, a dancing tableau-vivant of the Fragonard painting The Girl on the Swing, brings a disarmingly bawdy and slapstick flair to the more subdued trappings of the period. The second, which whimsically documents the liberation fantasies of a 1950s housewife, manages to disperse comic relief so widely that the result is not tragedy punctuated by humor but a remarkably entertaining dose of bittersweet...