Word: comicality
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...actually meeting with some studio executives next month to discuss buying the rights to some DC Comics properties,” he reveals. “I’m interested in bringing some of the lesser known comic characters to the screen, I think that’s what made Blade such a pleasant surprise to so many people, he wasn’t a household name...
...credit, is easily understandable, and has no pretensions of grandeur. In contrast to other vampire movies it is particularly understated and director David Goyer (the writer of the first two films) keeps Blade going at a quick, clipped pace. It is a product of its genre, the comic-book movie, and in that sense it accomplishes its goals. It is action-packed. It involves copious explanations of weapon use. And it features a truly haunting sequence set at a vampire blood-bank that finally has the guts to honestly address America’s burgeoning homeless problem...
...Pirates of Penzance is one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operettas. Frederick is a duty-bound young man mistakenly apprenticed to a dreaded band of pirates called the Pirates of Penzance. When he turns 21, Frederick decides to leave the band and devote his life to the extermination of the pirates, but dewey-eyed maidens, bungling policemen and soft-hearted pirates thwart his efforts in a hilarious, topsy-turvy plot. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, evening shows for $8 and matinees for $6. Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
Brandon M. Terry ’05, president of the Black Men’s Forum, transformed into a rapper known as “Hollaman” to follow the somewhat comic duo with socially informed rap, targeting issues concerning politics and the status of African-Americans in society with his words. He touched on this theme in one of his more poignant lyrics, “Bush wants to talk about terror / Baltimore’s got 300 murders a year with no Al Qaeda...
...single-mindedly devoted to taking over the world; a recluse, never appearing in public without his trademark metal mask; a mad genius, never sleeping so that he can work in his lab all day and night: these are the images maintained by MF Doom. While every aspect of the comic book persona may not be true to life, the description of his work ethic is: MM..Food? is his ninth (ninth!) LP in the last two years, all released under various aliases. Even more impressive than the quantity has been the quality, as all of these have been anywhere between...