Sunday, April 11, 2004
Modesty Blaise (1966) is based on the comic strip of the same name. I don't know much more about what this film was about than that. Modesty's hair and clothes change all the time and I didn't understand why. The plot of the movie had something to do with thwarting a diamond heist. There was an Australian guy named Willie that Modesty had the hots for, and a guy named Gabriel who was bad...and crazy. He had a pyscho wife or girlfriend too, by the way.
More importantly, this movie was chock full of stupidly arty camera angles and tricks that were supposed to make you say "Ahhhh". The one positive thing I got out of this movie is that people making movies in 1966 generally required more thinking and background knowledge out of the audience than they do now. Imagine if the X-Men movie had actually assumed that you were familiar with the most basic of basics of the X-Men comics...probably would have been a better movie...but, that sort of thing can't be done today. In 1966, it was ok. Unfortunatly, I don't know anything about Modesty Blaise, except that my mom reads it and says "oh, that Modesty!" when she's reading the comics.
More importantly, this movie was chock full of stupidly arty camera angles and tricks that were supposed to make you say "Ahhhh". The one positive thing I got out of this movie is that people making movies in 1966 generally required more thinking and background knowledge out of the audience than they do now. Imagine if the X-Men movie had actually assumed that you were familiar with the most basic of basics of the X-Men comics...probably would have been a better movie...but, that sort of thing can't be done today. In 1966, it was ok. Unfortunatly, I don't know anything about Modesty Blaise, except that my mom reads it and says "oh, that Modesty!" when she's reading the comics.
// posted by Chris @ 10:30 PM 
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