BONUS SPOILERS!!!! Don't read if you don't want to know!
Ok, So I bought Flash Gordon,(1981), on DVD and instead of watching the film first I watched the bonus materials. Of particular interest was Lorenzo Smple Jr's interview.
He recalls how the translator couldn't translate his English script to Italian that well. Then Dino tells him he doesn't want the translation to be exact. Then the set designer would blatantly ignore the script altogether when building sets. Them he says Sam J. Jones as Flash was terribly cast-unbelievable as Flash Gordon. He also said he wrote the script but never got any feedback on it. No one said write another draft or work on it more.
I mean my jaw just about hit the floor. I always liked the film and thought man, the look of the film is so faithful to the strip, the visuals were great, the casting is very good, some of the scenes were outstanding-particualrly anything with Max Von Sydow as Ming. If the film had not been so campy, if the dialogue been worked on a little more this could've been a perfect film. As it os it's pretty good but it could've been the best comic strip adaptaion ever!
Ok, So I bought Flash Gordon,(1981), on DVD and instead of watching the film first I watched the bonus materials. Of particular interest was Lorenzo Smple Jr's interview.
He recalls how the translator couldn't translate his English script to Italian that well. Then Dino tells him he doesn't want the translation to be exact. Then the set designer would blatantly ignore the script altogether when building sets. Them he says Sam J. Jones as Flash was terribly cast-unbelievable as Flash Gordon. He also said he wrote the script but never got any feedback on it. No one said write another draft or work on it more.
I mean my jaw just about hit the floor. I always liked the film and thought man, the look of the film is so faithful to the strip, the visuals were great, the casting is very good, some of the scenes were outstanding-particualrly anything with Max Von Sydow as Ming. If the film had not been so campy, if the dialogue been worked on a little more this could've been a perfect film. As it os it's pretty good but it could've been the best comic strip adaptaion ever!
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