Federico Fellini was a titan of 20th century cinema, four time winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. He often cited his debt to American comic strips and comic books.
He had been a cartoonist before he was a film director and usually sketched comic style drawings of scenes and characters to create in his movies. (Sort of precursors to storyboards so widely used today.)
But he felt that the two media could never truly meld, saying,
“Comics and the ghostly fascination of those paper people, paralysed in time, marionettes without strings, unmoving, cannot be transposed to film, whose allure is motion, rhythm, dynamic. It is a radically different means of addressing the eye, a different mode of expression."
But, in a conversation with longtime friend Stan Lee, he also said that he experienced comics as “slow movies.” (He had sought out and befriended Lee, telling him he greatly admired his work.)
I wonder what he’d have thought of Nancy’s complaint against “slow movies.”
Federico Fellini was a titan of 20th century cinema, four time winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. He often cited his debt to American comic strips and comic books.
He had been a cartoonist before he was a film director and usually sketched comic style drawings of scenes and characters to create in his movies. (Sort of precursors to storyboards so widely used today.)But he felt that the two media could never truly meld, saying,
“Comics and the ghostly fascination of those paper people, paralysed in time, marionettes without strings, unmoving, cannot be transposed to film, whose allure is motion, rhythm, dynamic. It is a radically different means of addressing the eye, a different mode of expression."
But, in a conversation with longtime friend Stan Lee, he also said that he experienced comics as “slow movies.” (He had sought out and befriended Lee, telling him he greatly admired his work.)
I wonder what he’d have thought of Nancy’s complaint against “slow movies.”