"While attending a Great Books course, Williamson learned that Henryk Sienkiewicz had created one of his works by taking the Three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas and pairing them with John Falstaff of William Shakespeare. Williamson took this idea into science fiction with Legion of Space."
Cool! I've never read any Legion of Space, but I think I've read the original(?) material by Sienkiewicz, though now I can't recall which books(s) of his Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trilogy) best fit that description. I do remember the general vibe: great rollicking, sprawling adventures that reminded me of some of the best elements of recent fantasy serieses. (Kinda no longer politically correct in some elements like their portrayal of the Tartars etc., but hey.) The movie adaptations of the second two books were pretty good too (there's a more recent movie of the first book, but I haven't seen that one yet).
In a vaguely kinda similar vein, recently we watched yet another Toshiro Mifune movie, Incident at Blood Pass, a kinda-maybe sequel to Yojimbo. As if to reflect A Fistful of Dollars, certain elements (esp. the music) persistently made me think of it as a "ramen Western", so to speak.
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on 2007-04-24 04:19 am (UTC)Cool! I've never read any Legion of Space, but I think I've read the original(?) material by Sienkiewicz, though now I can't recall which books(s) of his Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trilogy) best fit that description. I do remember the general vibe: great rollicking, sprawling adventures that reminded me of some of the best elements of recent fantasy serieses. (Kinda no longer politically correct in some elements like their portrayal of the Tartars etc., but hey.) The movie adaptations of the second two books were pretty good too (there's a more recent movie of the first book, but I haven't seen that one yet).
In a vaguely kinda similar vein, recently we watched yet another Toshiro Mifune movie, Incident at Blood Pass, a kinda-maybe sequel to Yojimbo. As if to reflect A Fistful of Dollars, certain elements (esp. the music) persistently made me think of it as a "ramen Western", so to speak.