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Word: movieish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not to imply that Flash is an art film. Its adapters had an easier task than Popeye's did, since the comic's creator, Alex Raymond, was the most movieish of illustrators. His space fantasies are replicable on a sound stage, because they consisted largely of art deco architecture, primitive emotions and sexy states of undress. One gets a sense that Production Designer Danilo Donati had fun recreating Raymond's visions, that Writer Semple's script was lettered into balloons, and Director Hodges kept a pile of old comic books on hand to suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comics into Film: Bam! Pow! Eek! | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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