Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Mole


Instead of watching more noir westerns I checked out Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo. Unfortunately my copy is knackered, skipping half way through and now unwatchable. I'm gonna have to save my slowly-falling-in-value New Zealand dollars and buy another copy. What I saw was what I remembered, a surreal spaghetti western with occult, alchemical themes. I want to take elements of this occult western and mix it up with the era of Victorian globalization in which my graphic novel takes place. What else can go in the mix?. Herzog's Aguirre, Kurosawa's Yojimbo, the Lone Wolf and Cub manga, Conrad, Melville, Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, other spaghetti westerns (the Django movies, The Great Silence), Alan Ward and Judith Binney's historical works on the time period, Vincent Ward, Ian Wedde's Symmes Hole, Maurice Shadbolt's The Lovelock Version and his New Zealand wars trilogy, Steampunk, Weird West, Deadwood....