You might already know our feelings about Frank Miller’s “The Spirit,” but if you didn’t, we do not support that chaos. Sam Jackson recently spoke to MTV News about the film and his role as The Octopus in the comic book adaptation.
“[‘The Spirit’] is a comic book,” said Jackson. “You can call ‘The Dark Knight’ a comic book, but no, it’s a graphic novel. There’s a difference between a comic book and a graphic novel.” (Wow! He is really catering to the regular MTV audiences.)
““The Spirit” is funny. It’s tongue-in-cheek, wry humor,” continued Jackson. “It’s sort of Wile E. Coyote with real people. We hit each other with big things [and] we’re both kind of indestructible, so it’s funny in that way. We get shot up, we get stabbed up, we just don’t die.”
Later on in the interview, Jackson compared his character, the villainous Octopus, to the Joker from “The Dark Knight.”
“[The Octopus is] purely evil and bad as The Joker,” but “a genius in my own mind, not in everybody else’s.” (We don’t know what he is saying either.)
All Jackson had to say was that his character is similar to the Joker, (Trying to put more asses in the seats?) and that he hits people with big things.[MTV]