Important elements for a successful GI Joe movie
Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 6:57 AM.
With the success of the Transformers movie, that's doubtless what's led to a possible GI Joe movie being in the works.* And if there is to be one, then here's what's needed for it to work:
Trackposted to: The Bullwinkle Blog, Outside the Beltway, Stuck on Stupid, The Virtuous Republic.
- It should be set in modern times.
- The main adversary should be Cobra. They're the most recognizable and formidable nemeses of GI Joe for many years now.
- Cobra should be portrayed as the terrorist gang of conquestors they are.
- Cobra Commander should be wearing his hooded mask with a snake on it, which makes him look appropriately evil.
- The filmmakers should not stray from the subject of terrorism under any circumstances, and should deal with it as meat-and-potatoes as a semi-sci-fi concept like this can.
- They should make sure to include Cobra's self-named battle call, because for them, it reflects their own terrorist unification perfectly.
- They should likewise make sure to include GI Joe's own battle call, "YO JOE!"
- There should be plenty of advanced weaponry on hand to see, for both sides.
- If Scarlett's in the movie, she should be portrayed as a convincing butt-kicker. I've noticed how a few movies based on comics and other surrealistic items (the Daredevil movie, for example?) seem to have contempt for karate chicks and the filmmakers tend to water down their talents considerably. That should not be the case here.
YO JOE!!!
* And GI Joe has even more roots in comics than it seems, since the earliest template for the Joes was in a comic strip by David Breger for Stars and Stripes first published in 1942.Trackposted to: The Bullwinkle Blog, Outside the Beltway, Stuck on Stupid, The Virtuous Republic.
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