League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-07-12 06:24pm

I saw it last night and I thought it was top notch, it surprised me too with the plot twists. Now I ask where each character came from

Alan Quartermain

Tom Sawyer-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Invisible man-

Mera-

Dorian Grey-

Captain Nemo-20,000 leagues under the Sea

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde-

I don't know the names of the books of the others, can anyone identify them?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-07-12 06:32pm

Alan Quartermain- ?

The Invisible man- The Invisible Man

Mina Murrey- Dracula

Dorian Grey- The Portrait of Dorian Grey
Captain Nemo-20,000 leagues under the Sea

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Joe Momma · Post by **Joe Momma** » 2003-07-12 06:41pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Alan Quartermain- ?

The Allan Quartermain books were written by H. Rider Haggard.

The Richard Chamberlain movie "King Solomon's Mines" from the early '80s was based on one of those books, though I don't know how closely it adhered to the original works.

-- Joe Momma

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-07-12 06:48pm

thanks guys, I shall look them up at a bookstore.

What did everyone think of the movie?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-07-12 07:20pm

Haven't seen it, and I am rather reluctant, as Ebert said it was missing the elements that made the comic book so great.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-12 08:59pm

It is very different from the comics, but kept closer, overall, to the original legends than the comics(C'mon! Pride of the Empire an opium addict? The original Invisible Man still alive? Not a chance.), but still delivered a fun romp with the legends. If you're gonna be pissy about it being different from the comics, don't bother.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-12 09:20pm

So it doesn’t deserve the half star my local reviewers gave it? They've proved pretty reliable in the past.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-12 09:22pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:So it doesn’t deserve the half star my local reviewers gave it? They've proved pretty reliable in the past.

I enjoyed it. I can't speak for you, Sea. My advice is to to Matinee, so even if it sucks, you won't have spent 8 bucks on it.

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-07-12 10:07pm

It sucks that they didn't get to put James Bond's ancestor in it. But it was good. And I smell sequal.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-07-12 10:16pm

Haven't seen it yet but the critics don't seem too pleased with it. Not that I'm inclined to believe everything they say, in fact quite the opposite (I'm more interested in user reviews myself), just givin' ya'll the heads up.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-12 10:44pm

I thought the movie was pretty decent. It turned out a lot better than Wild Wild West (what a crap fest that was). I thought the most amusing part in the movie was the cop getting run down by that tank in the beginning.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-13 01:28am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Alan Quartermain- ?

The Invisible man- The Invisible Man

Mina Murrey- Dracula

Dorian Grey- The Portrait of Dorian Grey
Captain Nemo-20,000 leagues under the Sea

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The authors are, first one's mentioned already, HG Wells, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne, and well, I don't know about J and H.

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-07-13 01:57am

I hate to give this away, but Sir Arthur Connan Doyle's main villian is the baddie in this film. I just can't spell Holmes's archvillian's name.

Size altered only because of Spoilers

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-07-13 02:13am

Moriarty, IIRC.

Size altered only because of Spoilers

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-07-13 02:16am

Admiral Johnason wrote:I hate to give this away, but Sir Arthur Connan Doyle's main villian is the baddie in this film. I just can't spell Holmes's archvillian's name.

Blargh! That is something (namely, a spoiler) that you make really, really tiny, like I've done here.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-07-13 02:22am

Admiral Johnason wrote:I hate to give this away, but Sir Arthur Connan Doyle's main villian is the baddie in this film. I just can't spell Holmes's archvillian's name.

What the hell's wrong with you? If I hadn't already seen the movie, you would've just ruined it! You should always put SPOILER and leave scroll space before dropping something like that.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-07-13 02:43am

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:
Admiral Johnason wrote:I hate to give this away, but Sir Arthur Connan Doyle's main villian is the baddie in this film. I just can't spell Holmes's archvillian's name.
What the hell's wrong with you? If I hadn't already seen the movie, you would've just ruined it! You should always put SPOILER and leave scroll space before dropping something like that.

Arrrr, and you didn't shrink it down to spoiler size either, you dink!

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-07-13 02:52am

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:
Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:
Admiral Johnason wrote:I hate to give this away, but Sir Arthur Connan Doyle's main villian is the baddie in this film. I just can't spell Holmes's archvillian's name.
What the hell's wrong with you? If I hadn't already seen the movie, you would've just ruined it! You should always put SPOILER and leave scroll space before dropping something like that.
Arrrr, and you didn't shrink it down to spoiler size either, you dink!

Hey, I didn't know to do that. Besides, I won't give away the big secret of why, how, and the big twist and turns. Besides, there were only so many living villians to use, so by process of elimation, you should have know who the villian was.

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-07-13 02:53am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Moriarty, IIRC.

Size altered only because of Spoilers

Sorry about that. I didn't know to do that.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-13 08:09am

M-O-R-I-A-R-T-Y.
The threads already been spoiled

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-07-13 09:40am

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:Arrrr, and you didn't shrink it down to spoiler size either, you dink!

And no edit button either, um... hey look over there! *runs away*

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-13 09:45am

Admiral Johnason wrote:
Sorry about that. I didn't know to do that.

How the hell can you be here long enough to make nearly 1500 posts and not know to shrink and give warning about spoilers?

Dizzy D · Post by **Dizzy D** » 2003-07-13 11:42am

SyntaxVorlon wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Alan Quartermain- ?

The Invisible man- The Invisible Man

Mina Murrey- Dracula

Dorian Grey- The Portrait of Dorian Grey
Captain Nemo-20,000 leagues under the Sea

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The authors are, first one's mentioned already, HG Wells, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne, and well, I don't know about J and H.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stephenson.

And it's Mina Murray BTW.

Richard Chamberlaine has made 2 Alan Quartermaine movies by the way.

I'm not planning on seeing the movie by the way, because of the differences they made to the original work. (Maybe if it comes out on VHS, but making Quartermaine the hero and making Mina a vampire ??? Plus moving the whole thing to Venice etc.)

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-13 11:52am

I have to say it. How can the comic have purists, when it pissed on so many of the originals?

Alan Quartermain is a hero. It's what he was written as. You know, Pip Pip, Here We Are In Africa, Bringing Civilization To The Savage, Jolly Good, Aren't We Wonderful. British propaganda. Of course, later in the writings he became more real and human, like what we see in the movie. I still don't know why they made him an opium freak for the comic. The only drugs he took were medicinal halocinagenics.

Mira's vampirehood is not-so-gently hinted at(Read: Hammered in) in the comic, so actually coming out and saying it was preferable. It made her less of a background setting.

As for moving the thing, it's a completely different plot. Entirely. But it stands on it's own feet, in my opinion.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-07-13 11:55am

Dizzy D wrote:
I'm not planning on seeing the movie by the way, because of the differences they made to the original work. (Maybe if it comes out on VHS, but making Quartermaine the hero and making Mina a vampire ??? Plus moving the whole thing to Venice etc.)

I far prefer the movie to the comic, actually. The comic was far more ... mature? obscene? ... in the way it protrayed the characters and the world around them. The movie took characters more closely tied to the original stories and placed them in action in a far more believeable world.

While sex and horror may sell comics, it would have ruined a movie like this.

Adding another topic to this thread, was it just Nitram and I that noticed the symbolic relationship between Quartermain (Old England) and Sawyer (Young America)?

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