First Official Look at The Spirit's Octopus

[rogue trooper]

Samuel L. Jackson talks about working on The Spirit and with Frank Miller:


“Frank was cool. He was very...ego-less, you know, first film, and I’ve done like 113 films so I would say ‘Frank, you mind if I do this?’ and he’d say ‘Yeah, do that!’...Frank has made the film he wanted to make, and hopefully it’ll be that. It’s a cartoon...to me. The movie is a cartoon. We do Wile E. Coyote type stuff. I hit him with toilets and stuff. We’re both indestructible. I created him and made him indestructible, and then I turned around and used the stuff on me, so I’m indestructible, and even when I get shot I shake the bullets out of my head. It’s a cartoon...I get to dress up like a Nazi!”

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

So, now the Octopus... MADE Denny into the Spirit...???

"Faithful adaptation" ...

 

[rogue trooper]

So, now the Octopus... MADE Denny into the Spirit...???

"Faithful adaptation" ...

Maybe he is saying that The Octopus is the one who killed Denny when then eventually came back as The Spirit. I'm just guessing, I don't know.

If this is true, well, it's not the first time something is altered. Tim Burton had The Joker kill Bruce Wayne's parents and Christopher Nolan had Ra's Al Ghul be Bruce Wayne's mentor.

 

[mego joe]

Maybe he is saying that The Octopus is the one who killed Denny when then eventually came back as The Spirit. I'm just guessing, I don't know.

If this is true, well, it's not the first time something is altered. Tim Burton had The Joker kill Bruce Wayne's parents and Christopher Nolan had Ra's Al Ghul be Bruce Wayne's mentor.

I think the more problematic is that this treatment of chemicals has made Denny AND the Octopus indestructable from physical harm. It sounds kind of like a Super-Soldier Serum, which sounds completely wrong in reference to the character of the Spirit.

I believe at one point a version of the Spirit's origin did have the Octopus retconned as the Dr. Cobra character. But the only thing that the chemicals ever did to Denny was put him in a deathlike state. It certainly never gave him superpowers, neither being indestrucable nor the uber-ridiculous 'sex powers.' That's about as bad as it gets.

If Miller thinks the Spirit needs some unnatural reason to explain that he's a tough customer and that women dig him, then he really doesn't get the essence of the character.