Posted by Jacques Pochoy on February 01, 2002 at 15:45:25:In Reply to: Re: comics and arch....... scary buildings.... posted by Simple Simon on February 01, 2002 at 14:54:15:
Er.. Are you speaking of the movies or the original cartoon?
Skylines is an "easy" trick to give the illusion of a peculiar city or feeling...
When Hollywood wants to show Paris for "cheap", a skyline of roofs, typical at night, through the window of a rom under the roof..:-):-)A french tv show for kids called "Bonne nuit les petits" featured a stuffed bear and a magician getting down from a cloud to the room of a young girl and her brother... (the intro of the small puppet animation)... 30 years ago (Black and white tv) the cloud hovered over a center of Paris skyline (the kids are of middle class) with tv antennas, chimney pots and so on... Then after ten years the show went out, replaced by japanese cartoons...
Two years ago the show came back... In color but this time, in the introduction, the cloud hovered over a middle class individual house in a far suburb (because of green) and a dish instead of an antenna... and all the houses were alike...
What is funny is that of all the people I've asked if there was some differences with the one they saw years before, everybody said "the color", but only the architects or artists, said "The introduction.."...:-):-):-)
Does it means that people only "see" what they want to see and that 30 years ago the background of Gotham city in the original cartoon was of a "business prone" city quite far from the Dick Tracy background...
Let's not forget that it was just after WWII and those back alleys were already there... but the vilains had a bludgeon, not a .45...:-):-):-)
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