...Modesty and Willie have recovered the diamonds, but Gabriel is aware of their actions, and now the duo have to fight their way our of the villain's mountain monastery headquarters...
For all of you who are screeching "That's not what happened in the movie, you're sort of right!
This was an adaptation of the novel based on the screenplay Peter O'Donnell wrote for the 1960s movie based on the initial plotline of the comic strip!
However, the producers used only some basic plot elements from his script and "camped" it up, tremendously!
The movie (as weirdly-entertaining as it is) is to the comic strip and novel what the 1960s Batman TV series was to the comics!
This was an adaptation of the novel based on the screenplay Peter O'Donnell wrote for the 1960s movie based on the initial plotline of the comic strip!
However, the producers used only some basic plot elements from his script and "camped" it up, tremendously!
The movie (as weirdly-entertaining as it is) is to the comic strip and novel what the 1960s Batman TV series was to the comics!
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and here's the whole movie!
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(The Premiere Newspaper Strip Appearance of Modesty & Willie which Peter O'Donnell adapted into his Premiere Novel, which this Graphic Novel adapts!)
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"The movie (as weirdly-entertaining as it is) is to the comic strip and novel what the 1960s Batman TV series was to the comics!"
ReplyDeleteThis analogy might have served as apt if the antecedent comic books had lacked, since circa 1940, a boy partner with green shoes, bare legs, bright yellow cape, bright red tunic and so forth, quite detrimental for camouflage to perhaps say the least.
Count Karnstein's survey of the situation: Refers to tales which:
“had giant pennies and stuffed dinosaurs, was wearing caveman, zebra, and rainbow costumes, teamed up with Bat-Mite, split in two....fought a living #2 pencil, drowned in giant gravy boats and menaced by giant sized water pistols, tennis rackets, [had a boy sidekick with bare legs and medieval style shoes] and all sorts of insane absurdities long before the [1966] Batman movie or tv show were released….Dozier was bringing the characters to the screen in the manner in which they had been portrayed ... Did we ever see a Caveman Green Hornet or a Green Hornet in a rainbox [sic; rainbow] /zebra/dayglo red suit? Did we ever see Green Hornet being drowned in a giant gravy boat or being chased by aliens and dinosaurs? Was there ever an Ace the Green Hornet Dog? How about a Hornet-Mite?
No? I didn’t think so. There’s your answer. It’s literally that simple. Dozier was taking characters and putting them on the screen...Batman was as absurd, silly, goofy, and ridiculous as anything else that has ever appeared in comics, and so that’s how he appeared on-screen”.
Sidebar: Thank you for the Shadow scans.