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For me, its essential that he violence and anti-human ambience remains.
Could be a very strange, dirty, uneasy movie.
Yes indeed. But it'll be very, very tricky to pull off, because of of the irreducible difference between comics and film: there's no sound in comics, no voices, and the reader doesn't necessarily provide the voices in hir head.
D'you know what I mean? When the animals "speak" in the comic, we as readers aren't really thinking about how they sound—we're keying in to their emotional states. They talk in emotional aggregates, if you will. They don't sound like anything.
In a movie, though, the animals will have to audibly speak. And that's here it's all going to fall apart.
If they cast human voice actors, then the whole thing becomes Look Who's Talking Now with guns—impossible to take seriously. If they go for realism—with buzzy, metallic Stephen Hawking / Cylon-style voice synthesizers—it will present a huge barrier to audience identification; the cold, inhuman quality won't just make it hard to sympathize with We3, it will prove actively alienating.
And if the audience doesn't identify with We3, then the story becomes a science-gone-wrong monster movie with human heroes. And that would be missing the point entirely.
Of course, it wouldn't be the first point Don Murphy has done such a thing. Populism and vulgarity do not have to be synonyms, but Mr. Murphy's keen Hollywood instincts seem founded on the idea that entertainment must be loud, and that art has no place in it. His commentary track on the LXG DVD was a creepy, mesmerizing listen, a glimpse into everything that's wrong with the movie business. It's the aural equivalemnt of staring into the dead, soulless eyes of a murderer. |
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