6) Wanted
Comic book writer Mark Millar is kind of funny. He really is. If Alan Moore writes to shock the intellectual crowd, Mark Millar writes to shock the MTV crowd. He also obviously has a very love/hate relationship with comic book fans. Look at a movie like Kick-Ass, for example. You might think it’s a love letter, but it is an obvious diss. I wanted to focus on Wanted, though. Not only to be redundant, but because Wanted should NOT have been made into a movie.
Why? Let me tell you.
For one, you can’t have heroes in mainstream movies who rape for fun and kill cops when they are bored. You just can’t do it. Antiheroes like Walter White work on TV because we warm up to him after spending weeks with him. But you can’t just have a bad guy as your hero and expect the world to latch on to it. That, my friends, is what Wanted was about. An underground criminal organization who pull one lowly loser in and change his life. With the film adaptation though, all we got was curved bullets and a naked Angelina Jolie.
Again, we can start by citing visual differences. Fox in the book was based on Halle Berry, and the lead character was based on Eminem. No, really. Oh, and the book was all about them doing awful, awful things. Rather then get to deep into this (pun loading), how about I just show you the final frame from the comic book. You know, when Eminem fucks you in the ass?
Speaking of ass fucking….
Published: Jul 20, 2015 01:04 pm