From Hell, A Graphic Novel

Still, it would be good as a mini-series as you say and more of an update than Michael Caine playing Abberline, i remember watching that as a teenager, i enjoyed it throughly and Michael Caine was my most favourite actor when i was 16 yrs old.

[Aelric]

Ahh, so you meant "are they making another film..". Gotcha! Sorry.

I think the novel is pretty unfilmable in regards to a cinematic release. It would be much better off adapted as a 12 part mini-series, preferably in my opinion by HBO and the BBC. They'd have more room to work with all the plot threads and actually bring the graphic novel to life.

Aleric

Hi Aleric,
Yes, i wondered if the film from Hell was from the novel or the novel after the film, but i did catch so it seemed that there might be another film being made.
I hope so, it would be interesting to watch...

[Aelric]

Still back on track, will they be making a film from this novel, soon? I can't say i have read it but i did watch the film from hell and as regarding the filming of said JTR's victims and some atmospheric Victorian scenery...and ere....Buildings, it was by far the best on film to date.

The film From Hell was an adaptation of the graphic novel. Disney were first involved in getting it adapted, and the change of focus from the Ripper to a standard whodunnit originates with them. To be honest, it seems like a remake of the Michael Caine tv mini-series to me, which I prefer. That said, FH has bags of atmosphere and is really well shot and the set design is wonderfully accurate to the period.

I guess the ancient races had a higher knowledge when it came ot creating temples, shrines and phallic objects. Perhaps as a symbol of their building prowess, or as their pre-occupation with the male anatomy.

I shall consult "Chariots of the Gods" later...

Mind you ever though of the female side?.....everything gets swampt with males prowess pasted everywhere, like bunny girls for instance!.........But getting back to it, if those buildings had a cellar inside, given the first entry the first words would be ' It's dark in here '........Still there are different descriptions of cellars, cold damp and musty with fungus....Doesn't bear thinking about does it especially the ones with spiders spinning webs, those sorts of building belong to churches i'm sure, but i vote the fungus as Flower & Dean Street. Still i think ' septic can be rendered for both sides....U know ' turnip ' etc.

Sorry, just had to have my mad 2 minutes!

Still back on track, will they be making a film from this novel, soon? I can't say i have read it but i did watch the film from hell and as regarding the filming of said JTR's victims and some atmospheric Victorian scenery...and ere....Buildings, it was by far the best on film to date.

[Mike Covell]

I guess the ancient races had a higher knowledge when it came ot creating temples, shrines and phallic objects. Perhaps as a symbol of their building prowess, or as their pre-occupation with the male anatomy.

I shall consult "Chariots of the Gods" later...

For Mike

I also want to know,
if a needle structure like above is a phallic symbol, what was all those buildings in tudor times that weren't very high for shorties but were at least 12 to 15ft in length about? Would it be an Eric the 12 inch and nearly just as wide, shaped like a turnip.......Oooh Nasty!

Are they supposed to be pointy, best see my Doc!

It is quite an erection, and some might say, Rock Hard!

Anyway, enough of that, Graham Hancock, Robert Duval, and David Icke have all written books on ancient structures and oblisks and they all came to the same conclusion as yourself.

Oh no...Do your worst throwing David Icke at me like that! Next you'll be mentioning the ' Flying Saucers ' bit...In that case i'll have to see the Doc to be sure there aren't any leakages!
Now that'll get me worried when i clap eyes on my fruit bowl tommorrow, i'll feel short changed if i've haven't got any banannas, trying to desperatley to over compensate with the envy...With a Kiwi, I know my other half would make it fly!

[truebluedub]

Well seeing big structures like this as being based on a phallus is nothing new: http://books.google.ie/books?printse...=1&output=html

Chris Lowe

[LTowell]

Another thing to recommend the book is that, even with such great source material, the Hughes Brothers decided to do a reworking of Murder By Decree instead.

[Mike Covell]

Some might say that the needle is a phallic symbol. I'm just wondering on the basic of it being a pointy thing.

Are they supposed to be pointy, best see my Doc!

It is quite an erection, and some might say, Rock Hard!

Anyway, enough of that, Graham Hancock, Robert Duval, and David Icke have all written books on ancient structures and oblisks and they all came to the same conclusion as yourself.

Some might say that the needle is a phallic symbol. I'm just wondering on the basic of it being a pointy thing.

[AdamWalsh]

Here is a photo I took last year of Cleopatras Needle in London and a scan of it from the book - I tried to re-create it

[BillyE]

In the book "From Hell" as it pertains to the William/Caroline Gull love scene we are thankfully only privy to the audio of the event, not the visual, as the panels involved are completely blackened. The word balloons are disturbing enough, and intentionally so.

The bathtub scene involved Annie Chapman and Edward Stanley, known as "The Pensioner". Hope this helps.

[Ron Beckett]

I found this a few years ago in the local bookshop and I loved the atmosphere and the differing takes on the Masonic underground stream of history. I also loved Garth Ennis Preacher series. The appendix and the quotes at the start of each chapter were thought provoking too. I was informed by 'Bailey' in another thread that Alan Moore didn't like what was done to his novels by directors and had been quite pointed in his exempting himself from any links to the movies esp. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell. Bailey also said that Watchmen is being made into a movie. I myself am awaiting the movie of Rex Mundi by Arvid Nelson(author) and I will even admit to liking the Sean Connery as an opium sot in The L of EX Gentlemen. No-one else seems to like the movie but each to his own. The From Hell mention of Nicholas Hawksmoor and the Spitalfields Christ Church sent me into another area of searching for how masons controlled the police force in London,esp the City force and how if you are not on 'The Square'you can't get promoted past a certain grade,even in NSW and Victoria the public service was closed in some respects, mainly to keep out Catholics. The TV in the background just said that the Northern Territory balance of power could be held by a chicken farmer who has seen a UFO. That's a good note to start a new thread, When Sea gulls attack,with peri-peri sauce,thats Perry to all you Masons.