Continuing the ‘air taxi’ theme, here’s MajorGrin with a fun comparison between these two cult movies, both of which had Euro roots in one way or another. For example, Heavy Metal magazine was the American counterpart to Métal hurlant, and ‘5th’ was an English-language French film by Luc Besson, with art design by Moebius & Mézières.
I usually find these ‘side-by-sides’ not too terribly interesting, but in this case the number of parallels really does stretch on(!) See what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_Iq57hIB8
Btw, I don’t know what’s going on with the post thumbnails on this instance. It seems that all images work fine as thumbnails except for Imgur stuff, which is rather unfortunate since that’s mainly how I’ve been uploading the sublemmy’s imagery from the beginning. You can see this for yourself if you click on the root level of this community.
Support thread opened:
https://lemm.ee/post/47943331
It makes a lot of sense, seeing as how Luc Besson probably grew up on that french aesthetic and those visual themes etc.
If anyone hasn’t seen it btw, Heavy Metal the magazine is relaunching in a few days:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heavymetal/heavy-metal-magazine-1
Whoa, interesting/nice!
Wow. First Métal hurlant, then this(!)
I like how the new CEO sounded in that interview, but of course for us purists, it’s all going to come down to the intrinsic quality of the issues. And yes, I thought the previous crew, aside from running the mag in to the ground as a vanity project, really cheaped-out when it came to the quality of the stories they bought / contracted, much of it being seemingly American-based.
No, it seems like now would be a great time to get back to the spirit of the original mag, much of which was to offer American audiences a taste of BD excellence which they otherwise couldn’t easily get in the States.
That, and the liberal dosage of cheesecake, of course. 🤣
