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'Persepolis' book, movie - two versions of same story
Laura Katzer
Issue date: 2/11/08 Section: Culture
Satrapi later attends school in Vienna, struggles for acceptance, falls in and out of love and returns to Tehran as a young woman.
The adult Satrapi is just as humorous and rebellious as the young one.
It is really impressive how Satrapi blends so much humor and very real emotion into black and white line drawings and a slender amount of dialogue.
What could have been a didactic or bitter tale is full of hard but meaningful memories. But like the comic books Satrapi's parents gave her to teach her about dialectic materialism, Che Guevera and Karl Marx, Persepolis only tells one woman's tale in what amounts to a sea of other just as nuanced experiences.
Still this is one amazing memoir that is very worth reading.
The film version
The film Persepolis is a brilliant animated movie based on the graphic novel (of the same name) by Marjane Satrapi. It's also a great film adaptation of a graphic novel.
The film uses flat black and white hand drawn animation for the majority of the movie, the look accurately reflects the comic-strip style of the book.
The directors were right to preserve the comic-book feel. They make full use of the black and white contrast by imitating the style of film noir and expressionism.
The visuals are extremely powerful for their relative simplicity and the use of black is extremely effective.
Persepolis was made in France and is entirely in French with English subtitles.
The film starts with Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastroianni) who just arrived in Paris and is musing over her memories of life in Iran. Her mind wanders to when she was a child living in Tehran before the Shah was deposed.
Little Marjane (voiced by Gabrielle Lopes) is six years old and has two goals: to one day shave her legs and to be the last prophet of Islam.
Like many Iranians, Marjane's mother (the voice of Catherine Deneuve) and father (voiced by Simon Abkarian) are dissatisfied with the Shah's rule and participate in protests against it.
The adult Satrapi is just as humorous and rebellious as the young one.
It is really impressive how Satrapi blends so much humor and very real emotion into black and white line drawings and a slender amount of dialogue.
What could have been a didactic or bitter tale is full of hard but meaningful memories. But like the comic books Satrapi's parents gave her to teach her about dialectic materialism, Che Guevera and Karl Marx, Persepolis only tells one woman's tale in what amounts to a sea of other just as nuanced experiences.
Still this is one amazing memoir that is very worth reading.
The film version
The film Persepolis is a brilliant animated movie based on the graphic novel (of the same name) by Marjane Satrapi. It's also a great film adaptation of a graphic novel.
The film uses flat black and white hand drawn animation for the majority of the movie, the look accurately reflects the comic-strip style of the book.
The directors were right to preserve the comic-book feel. They make full use of the black and white contrast by imitating the style of film noir and expressionism.
The visuals are extremely powerful for their relative simplicity and the use of black is extremely effective.
Persepolis was made in France and is entirely in French with English subtitles.
The film starts with Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastroianni) who just arrived in Paris and is musing over her memories of life in Iran. Her mind wanders to when she was a child living in Tehran before the Shah was deposed.
Little Marjane (voiced by Gabrielle Lopes) is six years old and has two goals: to one day shave her legs and to be the last prophet of Islam.
Like many Iranians, Marjane's mother (the voice of Catherine Deneuve) and father (voiced by Simon Abkarian) are dissatisfied with the Shah's rule and participate in protests against it.
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