tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555502.post112795094876248052..comments2023-10-30T08:12:13.060-07:00Comments on Thosethingswesay: Mirrormask and SubliteratesMike M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14716539792698477275noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555502.post-1128145737472395082005-09-30T22:48:00.000-07:002005-09-30T22:48:00.000-07:00Glad I amused. It is weird to see an infuential c...Glad I amused. It is weird to see an infuential critic go back to the old, "can that comic book guy do this?" meme at this point in time, when the medium has evolved and when the author in question left the medium (at least full time) 7 years ago and has even, while being accused of catering to the subliterate, surpassed his earlier successes (commercially, if not artistically, but probably both) as a novelist. Heck, leaf through old copies of Sandman and it's even clear that the mythology he developed there (the idea that old gods still walk the Earth, powered by the remnants of belief) informs both American Gods and Anansi Boys. As for Mirrormask, I know there was the expectation of it being another Labyrinth, but you can't set out to do that. Mirrormask will probably enjoy a respectable, somewhat limited release and I can see it taking on new life and cult following on DVD, and if I had kids, I'd certainly show them the film, but to expect an instant, mainstream or even oddball following is too much to ask of any movie, and I think it's being reviewed as if that's a given, rather than for what it is which is, flawed, yes, but also smart, quirky, clever and visually enticing. It is, I think, despite its flaws, a better and more interesting and more challenging children's film than we usually see. I'm a little biased though, because the whole "Kid in a circus running away to join the real world," is the kind of inverted old idea that I like to use in my creative work, if not in substance, than certainly in form. It might have been a long time ago for me but I think that a lot of how I write comes from the idea central to my first play, which was, "God's powerful, but what about his younger misfit brother Gosh?"Mike M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14716539792698477275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555502.post-1128012456592642562005-09-29T09:47:00.000-07:002005-09-29T09:47:00.000-07:00HAHAHAHAH!!! I puzzled at that review, too. I wa...HAHAHAHAH!!! I puzzled at that review, too. I wanted to just buy the guy a good graphic novel and tell him to shut up and read.<BR/><BR/>..."they seem to involve pictures and words, which, um, films do, except that in film, the words are spoken for the benefit of the subliterate"<BR/><BR/>this is priceless.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09779746769688320802noreply@blogger.com