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The problem with talented misogynists
Dec. 9th, 2006 12:50 amI've just watched the 300 trailer. And now I can't stop whimpering.
Oh my god it's PRETTY. I mean seriously, it's beautiful. The lighting, the framing, the colours, that's a piece of pure visual cinematic *poetry* there. LOTR has nothing on it.
It's just... it's Frank WHOREWHOREWHORES Miller. WHORESWHORESWHORES.
You know him. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know he's a misogynist bastard with a machismo fixation. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know how he writes. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know he's got a very small penis. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You don't understand how his wife reconciles being married to a man who has this opinion of the world. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know the sheer racism/sexism/sick moral judgement of the book. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know there's some spouting about freedom and slaves when it's monarchy and Sparta being built and supported by standing on the damn slaves.
I own 300. I haven't gotten round to going anywhere near ebay in the last few months, but it's going on there. I bought it back when I was enamoured with his style and could mostly close my eyes to the WHORESWHORESWHORES.
300 is a gorgeous, coffee-table book. Lynn did a beautiful job with the colouring. It's well-paced. It's so well-laid out it makes your eyes bleed. However, fortunately, it's not perfect due to the way Frank draws stuff - that weird, gritty, wrongly-angled way that's not quite right.
300 the film? Has no ugly Miller drawing style. It's taken Lynn's colours and run with them and made them even more beautiful. And you're left with nothing but the frankly horribly uncomfortable feeling of having to admit that Frank WHORESWHORESWHORES Miller is a design and layout genius. No, really. So many of the shots in the trailer you could practically lay a page from the book over the screen (helps that the book was all double-page spreads to emphasise the widescreen feel) and have everything match up perfectly. And these are some of the most beautifully framed shots. Things like kicking the Persian ambassador over the pit, or soldiers being backed off the cliff, or the shot of the oracle in the throes of a vision... they're all Miller shots.
So you're sitting there going oh my god the pretty but feeling so uncomfortable at the fact that it comes from sheer skeeviness that is Frank WHORESWHORESWHORES Miller.
AUGH.
Oh my god it's PRETTY. I mean seriously, it's beautiful. The lighting, the framing, the colours, that's a piece of pure visual cinematic *poetry* there. LOTR has nothing on it.
It's just... it's Frank WHOREWHOREWHORES Miller. WHORESWHORESWHORES.
You know him. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know he's a misogynist bastard with a machismo fixation. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know how he writes. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know he's got a very small penis. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You don't understand how his wife reconciles being married to a man who has this opinion of the world. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know the sheer racism/sexism/sick moral judgement of the book. WHORESWHORESWHORES. You know there's some spouting about freedom and slaves when it's monarchy and Sparta being built and supported by standing on the damn slaves.
I own 300. I haven't gotten round to going anywhere near ebay in the last few months, but it's going on there. I bought it back when I was enamoured with his style and could mostly close my eyes to the WHORESWHORESWHORES.
300 is a gorgeous, coffee-table book. Lynn did a beautiful job with the colouring. It's well-paced. It's so well-laid out it makes your eyes bleed. However, fortunately, it's not perfect due to the way Frank draws stuff - that weird, gritty, wrongly-angled way that's not quite right.
300 the film? Has no ugly Miller drawing style. It's taken Lynn's colours and run with them and made them even more beautiful. And you're left with nothing but the frankly horribly uncomfortable feeling of having to admit that Frank WHORESWHORESWHORES Miller is a design and layout genius. No, really. So many of the shots in the trailer you could practically lay a page from the book over the screen (helps that the book was all double-page spreads to emphasise the widescreen feel) and have everything match up perfectly. And these are some of the most beautifully framed shots. Things like kicking the Persian ambassador over the pit, or soldiers being backed off the cliff, or the shot of the oracle in the throes of a vision... they're all Miller shots.
So you're sitting there going oh my god the pretty but feeling so uncomfortable at the fact that it comes from sheer skeeviness that is Frank WHORESWHORESWHORES Miller.
AUGH.
