Fun with Thomas Kretschmann
Jan. 25th, 2006 02:00 pmWhoever decreed this to be Random Celebrity Cameo Appearances In Dreams Week can be thanked. This morning's adventures began with attacks on vampires and concluded with my co-worker M. and me running from a green-eyed Gary Oldman-turned-Thomas Kretschmann, catching him in the attic, trying to shoot him with three successively empty guns (his face turned against the hardwood floor under my knee, eyes squeezed shut, he winced at each click), pistol-whipping him when that didn't work, and then trying to figure out how to take down the remaining two burly Russian mobsters guarding the front door using a bullet and a half-full bottle of beer.
Er, yes. So I looked for photos of Thomas K. today to check his eye color (blue) and found a movie of his that looks pretty cool: "Immortal (Ad Vitam)," a washed-out CGI sci-fi extravaganza directed by Enki Bilal based on his Nikopol Trilogy comics (apparently the crowning achievement of the apparently quite famous Yugoslavian/French artist/writer, though I admit I hadn't heard of him before today). The movie looks like "Mirrormask" with all the crazy animation and sounds like a slashy hybrid of "Stargate," "The Fifth Element" and "Blade Runner": in a dystopian future, Horus possesses the mortal Nikopol (Thomas K.) so he can mate with a mortal/hybrid female to ensure his immortality via offspring. You can see the trailer here.
The doubts I'd had at the questionable quality of the CGI are being overriden by that plot (and the pretty people!), especially when reviewers say things like:
synn! -- one is at the Blockbuster by where you work. Interested?
Meanwhile I've ordered the comics from a nearby library in case they're any good. People seem to say the movie is better. Has anyone come across them before?
Er, yes. So I looked for photos of Thomas K. today to check his eye color (blue) and found a movie of his that looks pretty cool: "Immortal (Ad Vitam)," a washed-out CGI sci-fi extravaganza directed by Enki Bilal based on his Nikopol Trilogy comics (apparently the crowning achievement of the apparently quite famous Yugoslavian/French artist/writer, though I admit I hadn't heard of him before today). The movie looks like "Mirrormask" with all the crazy animation and sounds like a slashy hybrid of "Stargate," "The Fifth Element" and "Blade Runner": in a dystopian future, Horus possesses the mortal Nikopol (Thomas K.) so he can mate with a mortal/hybrid female to ensure his immortality via offspring. You can see the trailer here.
The doubts I'd had at the questionable quality of the CGI are being overriden by that plot (and the pretty people!), especially when reviewers say things like:
It is, in essence, a buddy piece: a fugitive, arrested 30 years before for protesting his government's eugenics program, forms a grudging friendship with an alien. [... T]heir friendship is consummated when Horus' spirit invades Nikopol's body... and there's a girl -- a ravishing eugenics guinea pig with blue hair and lips -- who's clamped to the pair in an awkwardly kinky love triangle. (Guy Leshinski, Eye Weekly, 12/2/04)There are half a dozen copies of "Immortal" in the county, and
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Meanwhile I've ordered the comics from a nearby library in case they're any good. People seem to say the movie is better. Has anyone come across them before?