The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Fountain
Book Review: ISBN: 0789314959 Is Not the Graphic Novel
Summary: 4 Stars
The hardcover ISBN 0789314959 is instead a collections of imagery from the movie with a separate screenplay enclosed in a booklet in the back. Be aware when you order this.Book Review: Cryptic triptych
Summary: 4 Stars
Aronofsky first conceived "The Fountain" as a movie - a natural thing to do, for a cinematic director. He couldn't sell it, but he couldn't drop it, either. So, he did the next best thing. He engaged Kent Williams to make his script into a graphic novel - a great artist with a fantastic style that suits the fantasy elements of this story very well.
This story or these stories, I don't think it's possible to distinguish clearly. One comes from the time of the conqistadors in the new world, another from a future where men and women travel through space nearly naked to the darkness, and the third from our time or something like it. They're all about life, and death, and life, in some kaleidoscopic collage that Williams assembles from three different artistic styles. I have to admit, I felt the most for the heartbroken scientist of our own time. Seeing personal tragedy drive him deep into his work rang very true for me. In the end - I think - the stories come to a common resolution. The fantasy and parable becomes deep, though, so I can say I've mastered all that it has to say.
So, together, the pieces come together in a story (or set of stories) that defies easy classification. They resemble the book itself in that respect. It's neither a novel descended from a movie nor a film script sired by a book. Instead, the movie and book are siblings descended from a common parent. When I see the movie, I'll have more to say about the two.
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Book Review: Majestic
Summary: 5 Stars
Truly an awesome story and quite simply amazing artwork. I am very happy to have bought it. Its philosophical and the author leaves some things up to the reader to interpret. Very nice indeedBook Review: Excellent and thoughtful work as expected by Aronofsky
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to admit that after reading The Fountain I am glad that they cancelled the movie...because now one will be able to enjoy two stories by Darren Aronofsky - first the original script made into a really beautiful and well-told graphic novel and somewhen later another movie about the same subject.
But now some more about the comic itself: The story is told in a rather unusual way - with lots of the boxed texts reminding of a movie script. As a frequent reader of comics I had to get used to that first but after a while found that it actually serves the storytelling very well. The story itself is very nice although one very quickly gets what the point is going to be in the end (but since it's a good story well told one anyway wants to continue). The pictures are very good indeed - there is not much else to tell about them except - they are worth indulging in for a good while.
All in all a very good book that can only be recomended further to everybody!
Book Review: Can't wait for the movie.
Summary: 4 Stars
Aronfsky shows us once again, his ability to think outside of the box. This is going to be a very visual movie, with a very original concept. Nice to see these young writer/director(s) are still using their imagination.