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Re: A Very Bad Idea: "Sgt. Rock" Finally Headed For The Big Screen
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[quote="Five Years Later"]Two (maybe three) things.
1. They don't want to spend a bunch of money to make an action/adventure WWII movie because they don't have confidence that it would be a wise investment based on the box office data. So I can't fault them for wanting to get away from the WWII setting.
Of course it doesn't make sense to call it Sgt. Rock, but we all know that.
Exactly. So what's the point in CALLING it Sgt. Rock, anyway, if it isn't going to BE Sgt. Rock? It's not as if the good Sergeant is a well known or proven draw among the non-comics buying public (and we know he sells pretty badly among fans, not being a superhero, barbarian, or deformed monster.) He hasn't had a regular title for
22 years
, and has appeared in only one graphic novel and a handful of reprint specials and books since then. Of what value is the license to them?
I'm not going to argue that you're wrong about "period" war dramas not being an easy sell right now--you're probably right, but it's puzzling to me. I'd be much more likely to want to see a movie in which I can actually root for the Americans as the unmistakeably good guys than one about any of our more recent wars, where the merits of the positions of the sides are more debatable. Nobody worth paying attention to wants to justify the Nazi point of view, and almost no one outside Japan (and relatively few there) would make any argument that the Japanese position was in any way morally tenable. (And then, of course, I also find the idea that World War II is viewed as being so far in the past as to be considered difficult to identify with pretty mindblowing in itself. I'd have thought that the constant rerunning and easy availability of movies from the 1930s on, and of early televison, would instead have made pretty much the whole 20th Century after the introduction of talking films equally accessible and familiar--and recent-seeming--to everyone.)
Ah, the meek. Playing the long game.
Sneaky bastards.
--Denise Mina,
Field of Blood
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