Adapting a comic book to the screen can be a dicey proposition - one that fails far more often succeeds.
For every Men in Black or Iron Man, there are a hundred Mystery Men, Captain Americas, Hulks, Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hells, MirrorMasks, etc etc -- Ghost World succeeds in part because it captures what the comic book was expressing, but using the language of motion pictures to do so.
The subtle character nuances and interaction, details in the clothing and settings that would have been all but impossible to render in ink, and most of all the performances, which evoke just about every emotion that anyone who ever imagined themselves an outsider, out of step with the rest of humanity, has ever felt.
And hasn't pretty much everybody, at some time in their lives, imagined themselves to be just such an outsider??
For every Men in Black or Iron Man, there are a hundred Mystery Men, Captain Americas, Hulks, Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hells, MirrorMasks, etc etc -- Ghost World succeeds in part because it captures what the comic book was expressing, but using the language of motion pictures to do so.
The subtle character nuances and interaction, details in the clothing and settings that would have been all but impossible to render in ink, and most of all the performances, which evoke just about every emotion that anyone who ever imagined themselves an outsider, out of step with the rest of humanity, has ever felt.
And hasn't pretty much everybody, at some time in their lives, imagined themselves to be just such an outsider??