The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

  The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, 2010

  Director: Luc Besson

 

 

Set in Paris with beautiful sets and costumes, this film was a sheer delight.

Witty and silly- Anything goes.

 Foolish detectives circling the city on the trail of an escaped prehistoric bird. 

An absurd display of Egyptian mummies admiring the architecture of Paris

 The smart, feisty and very beautiful Adele on her quest to save her sister

 adopted many different disguises to fool her way into places. 

Adopting the persona of each disguise was most fun to watch

The only thing I disliked about this movie was the over use of special effects in some scenes. 

Especially when Adele mounts the bird, I'm not sure if it was intended to look so unrealistic,

 but this scene felt unpleasantly digital.

 

The prosthetics worked really well to enhance the strange features of the characters. 

Simply making the detectives ears larger made him look more goofy 

and more like a man of another era; almost creating a new kind of species. 

Through watching the special features

 I gained more of an insight into the adaptation of the film. 

The film had been adapted from the comics of Jacques Tardi

 (which I hadn't previously heard of). 

The special features showed the intricate process of making the environment 

resemble that of the comics. No detail was ignored. 

Paris was transported back in time and through costume, 

set and pallette this could all be achieved

I'm so glad I found this film

I loved the mix of Egyptian history with early 20th Century Paris!

The fact an egg in a museum could crack after all these years

Simply from the power of the human mind who awakens the egg

now I will check out the comic it was adapted from by Jacques Tardi,

I don't usually like reading comics, 

but the illustrations of Paris look very nice indeed