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In Reply to: RE: A bit naive posted by Jazz Inmate on January 11, 2011 at 17:50:51

Yes, of course expatriates worry about family and former associates back in Iran.

But criticizing the regime is criticism whether it's done in live action or animation. Ya worry no matter what the medium.

Ya think the mullahs were OK with Persepolis cuz it was animated?? No...not from the protests they lodged with presenters and embassies all over the world where it was shown. Do you think the fact that Persepolis was animated softened the hard liner's ire toward Marjane Satrapi?

I stand by my statement that Satrapi "could" have made as a live action pic somewhere with some actors if that's what the she had really wanted to do - she lives in France after all. But SHE DID NOT so choose. She chose to make the film of her famous *graphic* novel in her own medium as they best way to tell that particular story.

BTW, Satrapi is currently working on her second film, an adpation of another of her graphic novels, this time in live action.

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And to prove my point... - Harmonia 18:25:55 01/12/11 (2)
Question: Did you always plan for Perepolis to be an animated film rather than live action?

Marjane Satrapi: " Yes, I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the storyline. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of people living in a distant land who don't look like us. At best, it would have been an exotic story, and at worst, a "Third-World" story.

The [graphic] novels have been a worldwide success because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. I think this helped everybody to relate to it, whether in China, Israel, Chile, or Korea, it's a universal story. Persepolis has dreamlike moments, the drawings help us to maintain cohesion and consistency, and the black-and-white (I'm always afraid colour may turn out to be vulgar) also helped in this respect, as did the abstraction of the setting and location. Vincent and I thought the challenge was all the more interesting for this and exciting from an artistic, aesthetic standpoint."

From an interview 2007...politics didn't have anything to do with the selection of medium.
- Thanks for using JI to enlighten us. Of course, shining a light - tinear 16:59:28 01/14/11 (0)
  to the blind is a waste of time as can be seen from his silence.
- IOW, she humanized and multi-culturized her art to make it more accessible. - Tony D. 19:31:46 01/12/11 (0)
  There are some who have read (and seen the animated version of) Persepolis and missed what is truly at the heart of it, that being the stories universality.
  
  J.B.

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