This film, she is a piece of:

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Film: Persepolis

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steve wrote:The books are amazing. Imagine the film is okay at least.


I'll letcha know, I am a huge fan of the books as well.

I was under the assumption that there were only two but a French girl I work with tells me there are a part three and four available.

Have you read all four? It seems like it's all covered in one and two, I don't know what three and four would be about.
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Film: Persepolis

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I believe it was originally four parts in France, with the first two in book one and the second two in book two for North America.

The books were really great. When I first picked them up I had trouble getting myself to stop reading them. Skipped a could classes to just keep going through.

I thought the movie was really good as well. I prefered the books, but the style of animation in the film worked really well. The story was by and large preserved, though a few of the episodes in the book I especially enjoyed were cut. Marjane Satrapi had a great deal of input in the film, and kept it true to the nature and quality of the books.

Not crap.

Film: Persepolis

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Being half Iranian myself, I loved the books when I read them and was happy that there was finally a good honest representation of an Iranian's personal experience that became popular in the US media, to kind of even out the bullshit and demonizing a little.

I felt that it was very easy to connect with Satrapi's character (Iranian or not) and I think that is why the books have done so well. I really want to see the movie, but haven't found the time yet. I hope they did it justice.

Film: Persepolis

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Fantastic books - didn't even realise they'd made a film.

Marjane Satrapi is great. I highly recommend "Poulet Aux Prunes" if you get the chance, it's a lovely little tome about music and suicide. Yay!

Edit: the title in English is "Chicken with plums."

wikipedia wrote:Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes in the original French version) is a graphic novel by Iranian author Marjane Satrapi. The original French language version was published in France in 2004, and the English version was translated and published in 2006. The book narrates the last eight days of the life of Nasser Ali Khan, a relative of Satrapi's, in November 1958 in Teheran. Nasser Ali, whose favorite meal had been his mother's recipe for chicken with plums, was a renowned musician who played the tar, but who, very depressed, chose to lie down and let himself die.

Chicken with Plums won the Best Album Award (Prix du Meilleur Album) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005.
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daniel robert chapman wrote:I think he's gone to bed, Rick.
He went to bed about a decade ago, or whenever he sold his soul to the bankers and the elites.


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