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
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