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camwynI've been meaning to see Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade for some time now. I happened to be in Suncoast about two months ago when a preview for it started playing on the monitors. It looked - and sounded - fascinating. Sadly, it was a Coming Attraction, not something in stock, so I had to let it wait. The next time I went, I got to the anime shelves, and there was a great big empty space where the DVDs of it would've been. Fine, I can deal with that, I'll go over here and go home with The Emperor and The Assassin instead. That worked out well, but today I was in Best Buy, and I could not find the movie I wanted (the Patrick Stewart rendition of Moby Dick, which has some interesting potential for VicMage.Asia). Guess what was in stock? Right... both versions. Too bad I couldn't afford the special edition, with the soundtrack and DVD of extras, but I bought the regular version and took it home with me. The first shots of people were my first clue that this was going to be an unusual experience - everybody actually looked Japanese, with real-world proportions and facial shapes, in the introductory crowd scenes. Then the rest of the movie...
Damn. I mean, damn. It looked like rotoscope. It looked like they filmed real people and erased the unnecessary lines - but they didn't, this was hand-drawn, from what I hear. And it was perfect. If I could draw like that - if I could draw even a single frame of Constable Fuse's look of absolute, total horror and 'make this not to be!' - I would count myself the luckiest penciller alive. Everyone in this movie, down to the passengers on the bus and the random passers-by in the crowd scenes, had their own face and their own expressions. From a visual standpoint alone, this was magnificent. And the story - fabulous, truly... Now this is how you do a tragedy.
Screw the pulp survival tips today. Today I leave you with the line from the Suncoast trailer that caught my attention in the first place...
"We are not men, disguised as mere dogs. . . We are wolves- disguised as men."
Damn. I mean, damn. It looked like rotoscope. It looked like they filmed real people and erased the unnecessary lines - but they didn't, this was hand-drawn, from what I hear. And it was perfect. If I could draw like that - if I could draw even a single frame of Constable Fuse's look of absolute, total horror and 'make this not to be!' - I would count myself the luckiest penciller alive. Everyone in this movie, down to the passengers on the bus and the random passers-by in the crowd scenes, had their own face and their own expressions. From a visual standpoint alone, this was magnificent. And the story - fabulous, truly... Now this is how you do a tragedy.
Screw the pulp survival tips today. Today I leave you with the line from the Suncoast trailer that caught my attention in the first place...
"We are not men, disguised as mere dogs. . . We are wolves- disguised as men."
