>>94554096In the radio show, due to different standards, he wasn't allowed to just shoot and kill people.
But in the majority of drawings of the character the twin pistols are practically glued to his hands.
>>94554030Well it's been over 23 years since that movie, and in 12 years from now the character is going to be a century old. And he's never had a tv series besides a failed 1954 pilot.
>You didn't like Alec Baldwin as The Shadow?I think Alec Baldwin was decent. He was a pretty charming Lamont Cranston but his Shadow was quite lacking. It feels like they cast him for star power.
I like the movie in it's cheesy glory, and it has a gorgeous look and soundtrack, but all things considered, it is a bad Shadow movie. It takes too many cues from comic book movies and Tim Burton's Batman and tries to apply a tone and approach to the character that is ill-fitting and does little to set him apart from the other superheroes that 90s audiences had already began to be tired of. The tone should be closer to something like the Daredevil series, or No Country For Old Men. The movie discarded a lot of the things that made The Shadow unique. Russell Mulcahy was the wrong director.
And the plot and characters of the movie are weak because it tried to cram all 4 Shiwan Khan novels as well as an origin story (another mistake when adapting The Shadow) into a 1.5 hour runtime, and this simply can't be done.
I'm not saying that The Shadow doesn't have silly moments or that it should be srs business 100% (there's a pulp story where he talks to beavers), but if the movie's job was to reintroduce audiences to The Shadow and sell them on what makes the character work so they could have a franchise, it failed hard at it.
Again, I don't hate the movie, it's fun and enjoyable and gorgeous, but it got a lot of things backwards and at the end it failed and helped to reinforce the stigma that The Shadow is too old and pulpy to be interesting again. And I don't think this is true.
