Vito Corleone, Tony Montana, Tony Soprano, Walter White. These are a few of the crime lords that have been immortalized in film and television. But before these characters were created, there was Marvel Comics’ Wilson Fisk more commonly known as the Kingpin. He was created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr. and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #50 (1967), which was two years before the publication of Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather. After a host of colorful villains, like Green Goblin, Octopus, Chameleon, and Vulture, Kingpin seemed gritty and realistic. With his pudginess, he resembled 1870s New York crime boss William Tweed. Kingpin is a compelling villain because he is a self-made man with no special powers, gadgets, or inherited wealth and has presented problems for multiple heroes. Many comics villains are deranged lunatics, but he is just a businessman, who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.
- 9/10/2013
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
Two films on release in the UK later this week, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the documentary Project Nim, demonstrate that fact is stranger – and sadder – than fiction
Project Nim in pictures
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which goes on general release in the UK from Thursday, is a prequel to the original film. Or perhaps it's a prequel to the prequel? At the film's climax there was clearly still more "evolution is revolution" to come from 20th Century Fox's simian uprising franchise.
The fictional life story of the chimp Caesar, played by Andy Serkis, is similar to the real-life story of a chimp called Nim who was born at the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in Tuxedo, New York, raised by a human family and learned to communicate through sign language.
The fictional Caesar undergoes genetic modification and develops spoken language,...
Project Nim in pictures
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which goes on general release in the UK from Thursday, is a prequel to the original film. Or perhaps it's a prequel to the prequel? At the film's climax there was clearly still more "evolution is revolution" to come from 20th Century Fox's simian uprising franchise.
The fictional life story of the chimp Caesar, played by Andy Serkis, is similar to the real-life story of a chimp called Nim who was born at the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in Tuxedo, New York, raised by a human family and learned to communicate through sign language.
The fictional Caesar undergoes genetic modification and develops spoken language,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Carole Jahme
- The Guardian - Film News
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