Percival Constantine
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An action fiction novelist and a lifelong fan of comics and film. Discover my fiction at percivalconstantine.com.
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How Can Marvel Use The X-Men?. Top Story - March 2020.
For the past twelve years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a mutant-free zone. And attempts to turn the Inhumans into the MCU's take on mutants ended up falling flat. But now that Disney has purchased many Fox assets, including the film rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, Marvel has the chance to introduce mutants. The question everyone asks is, "is it too late?"
By Percival Constantine4 years ago in Geeks
SHOPLIFTERS Exposes Unseen Japan
This is a transcription of an episode of my podcast, Japan On Film It's been said that one of Japan's most-valuable exports is its culture. The Japanese passport has been ranked as the most powerful in the world because Japanese citizens can enter 191 countries without a visa. And in large part that is no doubt because of the soft power Japan wields in the world. Whenever I tell people I live in Japan, I always get one of the following responses:
By Percival Constantine4 years ago in Humans
The Ronin that Sticks Out
This is a transcription of an episode of my Japan On Film podcast. Yojimbo, one of the all-time classics of not only Japanese cinema, but cinema in general. It’s really hard to overstate just how important Yojimbo was to the world of movies, but first, a little bit of background.
By Percival Constantine5 years ago in Geeks
Motherhood and the Other
The association of family in the horror film is as old as the genre itself. Even as far back as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, themes of family are present (Cesaré is a creation of Caligari, so in essence, Cesaré is his son). American horror films followed this trend in Frankenstein (such as the conflict between the monster and Fritz, similar to sibling rivalry for the affections of the father, in this case, Henry), eventually recognizing the family in a literal sense with the sequels (Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein). In his book, The Horror Film, Peter Hutchings discusses the concept of family horror and has this to say on the subject:
By Percival Constantine7 years ago in Geeks
