The Spirit Is Just in Love with Love (and Breasts)
What with GiantSquidGate and what not, I’d actually forgotten there was another movie based on a popular comic series on the way, which might be just slightly more troubled than Watchmen. For instance, director Frank Miller didn’t change the ending to Will Eisner’s The Spirit, so much as he changed the outfit, look, style and personality of the main characters, and then surrounded him with Hollywood’s top-heaviest actresses?surely because of his bold artistic vision, and not because Miller wanted an excuse to stare at Scarlet Johannson’s tits for several months while getting paid for it. At any rate, this “Women of The Spirit” feature does the full rundown, showcasing the wide variety of women?some good, some evil, all sex-crazed?of the film. Truly, the variety is just staggering.
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