My son-in-law, Ketlan, recommends the novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson and one of its two film adaptations. Having just read
Book One of the graphic novel adaptation by Denise Mina, Leonardo Manco
and Andrea Mutti, he is not sure whether a reader unfamiliar with
Larsson's original prose novel will follow the story in this graphic
version so I am about to find out.
In the graphic
adaptation of the first Batman film starring Michael Keaton, one panel
depicted Bruce Wayne stooping and reaching towards a bunch of flowers on
the ground. Had he just placed them there or was he about to pick them
up? What was the context? Later, it was stated that every year, on the
anniversary of his parents' murder, he placed flowers at the place where
they had been killed but it was not initially clear to me either why he
was placing flowers on the ground or even that he was doing so.
This
is a case where what they intended to depict was clear to the artists
(penciller, inker and colorist) but not necessarily to the reader. I
will report back here on what I understand of what is going on in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Graphic Novel, Book One.
Interim Report: Some entire pages are without words. I find it difficult to follow what is going on here. But a single reading is not enough.
Interim II: Have read it through once but it needs at least one more complete reading, tomorrow at the earliest. There were a couple of points where I lost the continuity between panels.
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