I don't care for this movie much, but i have to ask, when is Frank Miller proposing this film is set? I mean the flashbacks look like the late 70's and the so called present day like the late 50's early 60's (going off the clothing etc). this seemed apparent for about five minutes until the spirit gets hit up on his mobile phone. I really don't get it?
Got a bit lost on this one didn't you Franky boy
I think its meant to be a mash-up of between the 1950's - 2010's because some of the cars looked old but then the helicopters looked new, the clothes looked old but the forensics looked more up to date, i'm not sure if that was on purpose but its what I remember (though I have not seen the movie in a while).
Wake up Mr. Freeman... wake up and smell the ashes
I think it's your basic alternate universe - like the time period of James Whale's Frankenstein films.
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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???
It's an alternate reality where old mixes with new. Kinda like the movie Streets of Fire, which was filmed in the early 80s and the world is, basically, a mixture of Rockabilly 50s, Motown 60s and neon/big haired 80s.
shareBasically that movie is made to get money while passing as fromage... er Hommage to Mr Eisner.
The makers had to take in account the audience current backup. The movie is synthetic, but it is faithfull to what Mr Eisner said of the Spirit : he was "essentialiste". In french, spirit translates as essence. Spirit fights crimes because crime is. Time is not of essence. Spirit is.
Actually it is a well made movie imho, except for the small remark I wrote- nobody wrote any answer for it yet, but I quite don't care.
Let's compare with "the phantom" movie...
emm
"to tax and to please, no more to love and to be wise, is not given to men"