Canadian student goes from comics reader to filmmaker
The Calgary Journal wrote about a student filmmaker who first began as a comics reader:
Eli Smart knew from a young age he wanted to be a filmmaker. Unlike many others, Smart’s chance to test the waters with his big dream came in his teens, when he was given the opportunity to produce a film.Well congratulations to him for his ambitions and inspirations, but today, the Marvel movie machine's gotten awfully rusty, no thanks to the PC mindsets the studio management took up just as Stan Lee was about to pass on, and as a result, live action superhero films today are meaningless. So, pursue a film career if you must, but there's really no point in obsessing over adapting comics to screen now. At least this article does confirm there are moviemakers who grew up reading comics as much as being fascinated by film.
Homeschooled by his mother in Calgary, Smart’s world was small as a child. His life revolved around his family, neighbours and the kids on his block. He found himself drawn into the larger-than-life worlds of the comic books he read.
“When you’re a kid and looking at it, it’s just like, ‘Whoa, there’s a guy who can fly in the air and punch things really hard.’ That’s like the coolest thing ever for my three-year-old brain,” Smart says. [...]
Smart entertained dreams of making Marvel movies when he was 12, but the possibility of actually pursuing filmmaking at this time in his life was only a prospect for him. Until it wasn’t.
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