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[Fearless]

Hi everyone!

I'm new here.
I'm currently working on a DD fanfilm. And I still have some questions and would like to get some comments.
The story is based on Miller's Man without Fear and some older Miller stuff. I want to combine several elements to make the ultimate origin movie.

1. No costume until the very end of the movie! I want to avoid the usual prejudice. When people know they are watching a comic book movie they start criticizing and analyzing everything and start saying that's unrealistic bla, bla, bla, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Sort of like the teaser trailer for Batman Begins. The audience has know idea what awaits until the very end.

2. Matt does NOT kill! Like in TMWF he's traumatized after accidentally killing that whore. But his fighting style is extremely mean. Is there a point where things can get too violent?

3. I want the characters to be in the foreground. Action only when needed.

4. DD doesn't move like Spiderman! He can't jump a 90 ft gap land on a much lower building and keep moving!
I want him to move like a freerunner!

5. I read somewhere that Matt meets Typhoid Mary during his college years in TMWF. Did I miss something?!
The only female characters there are Cathy and her nameless friend and Elektra.

6. Does the character Mickey ever appear again? Her real name is Dominique...

7. In the original continuity Matt and Elektra's relationship lasts for a year and seems to be a standard teeny romance from the look of it. In TMWF it only lasts weeks and fits Miller's philosophy better:"these people bring down entire buildings with their passion!"
In TMWF it can be summed up like this: She is to him like a drug and he is to her like medication. Is that right?

8. The usual street thugs always look like bikers! Hell, bikers, goths and punks are mostly extremely nice guys! Of course there are some a-holes but that's just discriminating!
I would make them look like hiphoppers; those stupid wannabe gangsters! I see them everyday and haven't met one nice guy!
I would love to see some get beat up badly!

9. Is Matt lefthanded?

10. Why does Jack call Matt's mother Maggie? I thought her name used to be Grace? Does that imply that he knows she became a nun?

11. Towards the end of TMWF Matt tries to free Mickey and after he knocked out all of the "guards", Larks (the hitman) bails and takes Mickey with him. Why? By now he he should have realized that this vigilante is after Mickey! And she doesn't know enough to do any harm. The police is on their way anyway; so why doesn't he just bail alone?!

12.Why the hell does he don the costume at the end. It feels forced. He's not yet fed up with the injustice in the curtroom or anything? Can somebody explain?

13. After he got badly injured when freeing Mickey wouldn't it be logical for him to make a slightly armored costume so that he wouldn't return injured every night. After a while he would have enough practice to loose the armor but in the first weeks?
Or should I just go with something directly out of the comics?

I hope this post isn't too long but I'd really love to get some answers
Cause I want to get things right!

-Roman

[Francesco]

Here are my two cents:

[rgj]

Matt is not left handed. Yes, his holster is on his left thigh, but he usually holds his club (fighting and swinging) with his right. Matt is good with both arms/hands but it has never been shown that he is left handed.

This was the only question I read as I skimmed tough the fanfilm post. It's early, just got up, maybe I'll read it more carefully later.

rgj

p.s. His mother's name is Margaret Grace

[james castle]

[Fearless]

[Born Again]

I thought the whore survived to become Typhoid. I want to know about Domonique too.

[james castle]

[Francesco]

Actually it should be said that if you depict the street thugs as gangsta, there's the risk that it will seem racist, given the fact that in today's collective imaginary, black people are usually associated with "the gangstas" and viceversa.

But if I were you I wouldn't care about it. The gangsta suck.

[rgj]

Oh, so you want specific examples. Like in Born Again, the famous splash page of DD in the flames, DD has his club in his right hand, and I bet if you read 10 comics, he will favor his right hand with the club.

In Born Again, when Matt turns the corner to making a comeback (symbolically) and he is hitting the heavy bag at Fogwell's gym (you know, when he knocks it off it's chain), he has the stance of a right handed fighter. His left shoulder is to the bag.

Now, I'm not saying Matt isn't skilled with his left hand, I'm just saying that, OVERALL, he seems to be right handed.

rgj

Perhaps he likes firing guns with his left hand because if he did it with his right he'd kill every time.

p.s. James Castle. Keep fighting the good fight!

[james castle]

I get called a communist all the time but that's only because I don't believe in private ownership of property.
_________________
JC

So why can't you see the funny side?
Why aren't you laughing?

[Fearless]

Hey James,

I'm sorry about what I said. Must be my sometimes wicked temper..

Your so right about what you said about the costume, Matt's behaviour etc.
That stuff with the hiphop was again my bad.
Where I live there are close to no black people (I know only two and they are very good friends of mine, actually they got picked on back then, too).
But there are other examples like a former friend who later became a typical bully.
Or another who acts like a gangsta in public but i know the guy since he was 5 years old and when he's alone he is still that great kid but as soon as his friends come around he changes.
Or another freind a great artist, honestly! He was extremely talented and now I mention his name and people think of getting beat up and being threatened.

The type I want to portray is living in my neighborhood.
The type that threatens you "I'll kill you etc.".
I told the guy "Come on! Go ahead! Have fun!" and then he didn't know what to do and ran off.

These guys won't be black.

And for the costume, I'll probably go with something like Bermejo's suit, now
Does anybody have a higher resolution version of this image?

[Francesco]

[Forrest]

[Fearless]

Thank you, Forrest, Francesco, rgj and especially James Castle for clearing things up and making me wake up.
I was frightened I might turn into a second MSJ

-Roman

[Francesco]

Interested by this topic, I re-read MWOF.
And indeed, if one didn't read any other DD, the impression is that Matt fights and beats up the thugs because they remind him of the kids who bullied him when he was a kid.

Of course, it could be said that the mini just shows the origins of DD, maybe implying that back in the beginnings, his motivations were still not well defined.