That's called pain. Get used to it.
there for almost twenty years, the DC imprint Vertigo, which saw the light of day in 1993 to make comics with more mature content including graphic violence for an older audience interest. For this emerged Vertigo so prized works such as Y: The Last Man , 100 Bullets, and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Garth Ennis' Preacher . But the most famous child of the imprints is Hellblazer that his first steps 1988, under the direction DC-validated before it went to Vertigo on and thus become the längstwährendem title. It owes its existence Hellblazer none other than comics guru Alan Moore.
For it was Moore, John Constantine invented in 1985 as a minor character for The Saga of the Swamp Thing before the occult detective three years later, led by Jamie Delano own comic book series was granted. Over the years, would also try Neil Gaiman, Brian Azzarello, Garth Ennis and Andy Diggle at the Liverpool chain smoker. Specifically, the story arc written by Ennis Dangerous Habits was a classic of Hellblazer series and was eleven years after its release in 2005, the plot structure of the comic book adaptation Constantine by Francis Lawrence.
As for his character-drawing, is John Constantine - whose appearance was modeled after the British singer Sting - not necessarily a very sympathetic figure. For Constantine's headstrong actions often ultimately pay the price of his friends and acquaintances. If in the directory named after the hero movie version at one point (from context) is torn: "I do not need another ghost is following me around," then this should be understood as an allusion to the countless spirits of Constantine's friends to follow him in Hellblazer and continually remind his mistakes.
"He's more about manipulating people than using magic," says Karen Berger, editor of Vertigo, the British anti-hero. Thus, Constantine also not a classic comic book hero with superhuman abilities, but a guy of flesh and blood, by means of black magic, occultism and esoteric and, rather more, thanks to cleverness beats the devil and Co. always a cheat. Different from the situation in Constantine, which was renamed to avoid confusion of the public with the Hellraiser series (as Hellblazer originally to be called) and the year before started Hellboy prevent.
So the blonde was occultist from the Liverpool of the Thatcher era to the black-haired exorcist from Los Angeles. His job carries Constantine (Keanu Reeves) just so off, because he as a child of his ability - he can see angels and demons - driven to suicide and was now trying (s) erheilen a way to heaven. Smartly dressed in a black suit Reeves is the reluctant hero. Especially dramatic is the religious heritage of committed mortal sin, since Constantine, here is the plot structure of Garth Ennis from Dangerous Habits taken up to end-stage lung cancer suffers.
a convincing election represents the narrative arc but basically everything that Hellblazer stands. Very black humor, Constantine shows here in the final at his best when he jumps to the first death from the blade, by playing Lucifer, Beelzebub and Azazel to today. Particularly interesting Ellis' story is the fact that Constantine in the face of his impending death means not only the one side (in the form of the Archangel Gabriel), but also the other (the demon Ellie) searches. In Constantine integrating Dangerous Habits ultimately founder on the attempt to tell more than is necessary.
said Francis Lawrence, who celebrated his directorial debut with this film, fortunately no secret of the fact that Constantine will tell against the habit of other comic book movies any Origin story. At least as half later but finally, when mounted via flashback, a fictional Origin Story and try to get to the main plot in correspondence. Knapp summarized this is the reason why is sentenced Constantine as coherent-stringent work to failure. Rather than focus on the individual fate of his hero, is the whole world in danger.
comes in a totally irrelevant subplot of a Mexican in the desert by the Nazis discovered the Holy Lance, known in English far more striking Spear of Destiny. With it, he trudges to Los Angeles, where she perfidious plan archangel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton) is to serve Lucifer (Peter Stormare) son Mammon from the body of a medium, in this case homicide Angela (Rachel Weisz) to release to This sparked the hell on earth, and only those who benefit from God's grace they deserve. And all so the world can rescue degenerating into a catharsis of the hero.
"I love the fact that the movie never bothered to try to explain itself ", is a producer Akiva Goldsman full of praise. What itself in order would, if what the film shows at least follow a certain sense. Instead Constantine is vollgemüllt (otherwise it can be said not) with invented characters such as Hennessy (Pruitt Taylor Vince) and Beeman (Max Baker), although, as in the finale, Chas (Shia LaBeouf), for the acts of Constantine their lives may, without this, however, been fully appreciated within the story. They die only for the mandatory death of the irreplaceable figures.
Even if Hennessy is death is a charming tribute to Jamie Delano's first Hellblazer output hunger (and later still nice but consistently reminisziert useless further, for example, Feast of Friends), Lawrence's debut almost negates everything you need for the Vertigo comic actually. Since Constantin shows begin as casual-cool Exorcist, from which it later is suddenly the comic foreign audience that his soul to Lucifer is so desirable that he would pick them up personally. What in the finals then only serves a to clarify the situation, which Constantine could not clean itself.
The bleak and run-down Liverpool eighties gives way to surprisingly empty multicultural metropolis of Los Angeles, where Constantine in pointless scenes in front of gas stations kloppt with flying monsters or elsewhere Gwen Stefani's husband Gavin Rossdale with a Christian Knuckles the demons face polished. The action brings the same little further as the extra integrations known Hellblazer characters like Papa Midnite (Djimon Hounsou), or Shia LaBoeufs Chas. That the much more interesting character, Ellie (Michelle Monaghan), the squeeze to the victims fell (with one scene in Act III), speaks volumes.
From the gloomy character of the original, which was prescribed a lot more in reality than is the case with Constantine with its pseudo-shock element is not much left or gets lost in all the holy water-grenade head and half-demon scenes. Also wants the ill-prepared (as conceived by the writers) do not act to harmonize the Holy Lance with the Ennis' accepted framework regarding Constantine's cancer. In addition, figures such as Hennessy or Beeman simply not been introduced, than to the public (or Constantine) would be of importance.
this case, the film has its moments, be it the well-voiced character introduction by means of exorcism ("This is John Constantine, asshole"), the least interesting staged trip to hell and foremost the many allusions to Dangerous Habits , especially the excellent Tilda Swinton occupied. The androgynous angel Gabriel with a suitable person to fill such was perhaps the most successful move for the comic adaptation. Where convince smears also Weisz and Stormare (the latter with proper camp-factor), LaBeouf is miscast as ever and Reeves used interchangeably.
Constantine fails already on its market orientation. It was only as the title character from British to American, the producers showed interest at all. The exchange across the Atlantic did the Hellblazer universe also leaving and let the plot at the end are as interchangeable as the acting abilities of its leading actor. A pure, localized in Liverpool, adaptation of Dangerous Habits with Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans in the lead role would be mutually beneficial to the film safely. "There's more than one road to hell," said Constantine at the end of Going for It cynical. And Constantine is one of those roads.
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