Friday, 5 September 2008
A page from the Black Incal by Mœbius and Alejandro Jodorowsky
I love this movie more and more each time I see it. Just the scenery alone is amazing, and clearly inspired by Mœbius (Jean Giraud), though he did not work on the film himself. Mœbius seems to be cropping up everywhere I look lately; as N8 would say, he has his fingers in many sinister pies…Aside from the billions of comics he’s drawn, he was involved in the art design for Alien, The Abyss (JUST watched that with George and actually it really makes sense that Mœb was involved), Tron, The Fifth Element, etc. Oh and also the Dune adaptation that Alejandro Jodorowsky was going to make but then didn’t.1
This was my first time watching the Final Ultimate We’re Not Doing This Again Really No Voiceovers This Time Director’s Cut, and it’s GREAT.
More comics on Monday, have a good weekend!
To hold you over, here’s a big pile of Mœbius art I found via the awesome Brandon Graham: Les Archives Numeriques Du Major Grubert.
- OK, here’s a bit of couldabeen circular film history from a text journal I keep, I don’t know if I’ve thrown it up online before, but whatever:
Dune, the novel by Frank Herbert, was going be adapted into a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, most known for his films El Topo and The Holy Mountain. Jodorowsky’s adaptation was slated to star Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, Geraldine Chaplain, and Salvador Dalí, among others, and would be designed by a team including H.R. Geiger and Mœbius. Jodorowsky’s Dune lost its funding and the project collapsed. Geiger and Mœbius would go on to work with Ridley Scott, designing for Alien, and Mœbius would later collaborate with Jodorowsky to create the famed SF comic book series The Incal. Some of the designs from Jodorowsky’s Dune would later appear in George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy, the last of which, Return of the Jedi, was originally going to be directed by David Lynch, but he turned down the project…to adapt Dune instead. [↩]
September 5th, 2008 at 04:35
Speaking of ci-fi, this is ridiculously nerdy, though not exactly great.
(Watch the movie)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2008/09/05/science-outreach-done-right-the-lhc
September 5th, 2008 at 05:25
What are you talking about, it is SO GREAT
(It reminds me of those awesome songs at the end of Bill Nye episodes)
September 7th, 2008 at 04:22
They should stick to their day jobs.
September 13th, 2008 at 02:06
I remember hating the soundtrack to that movie the first time I saw it. but every time i’ve seen it it has grown on me more and more until now I can’t imagine the movie having any other music. it just seems right.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:23
One of the things I love about Blade Runner is that it’s a very 1980s vision of the future, and the Vangelis score really underscores that. Actually, one of the things I love about SF in general is how it changes with time as a reflection of the era in which it’s created…my favorite riff on this concept is probably the Fallout series of games, which take place in a post-apocalyptic, devastated 1950s vision of the future.
February 6th, 2009 at 03:21
I love the soundtrack, too :). And, like you, have been a little ostracized by that fact. Oh well, Vangelis understands.
February 6th, 2009 at 08:02
Yeah, Vangelis! Chris (the guy who said it kinda sucks) has since been converted, fear not