Saturday, September 22, 2007

Project idea

I was thinking of possible projects, and I realized that some of my favorite movies all began as comics or video games.

I did a little looking around and found a few reviews from comic sites.

V for Vendetta

Comics in Film News Roundup

IGN Comics: Reviews, forums and cool stuff

Article: Hollywood invades the comic book industry

So I'm going to dig around a bit more, and see what I come up with but I think this might be interesting.

Edit:
Holy Hannah, just looked at a List of films based on English language comics
over at Wikipedia, I had no idea!

Friday, September 7, 2007

Monday, September 3, 2007

MI5 confused by Orwell's politics

From BBC News UK

"'Bit of an anarchist'

Orwell is best known for books including 1984 and Animal Farm, which criticise totalitarianism, and other works attacking inequality, including Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.

The records show Orwell first came to the attention of intelligence service MI6 in 1929 when he was in France and offered to become Paris correspondent for the Workers Life.

In 1942, a record described him as "a bit of an anarchist in his day and in touch with extremist elements".

He had "undoubtedly strong left-wing views, but he is a long way from orthodox communism", it added."

I've always loved 1984 and Animal Farm, so to read all these years later that MI5 thought he was an Anarchist just makes me smile.