Directed by: Luc Besson
Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Gilles Lellouche, Philippe Nahon
Release date: April 14, 2010 (France)
Original titled LES EXTRAORDINAIRES Aventures D'Adele Blanc-SEC, this is a French film based on the comic book as the work of Jacques Tardi. What makes this film feel different is the director, Luc Besson, France's leading film maker whose name is known throughout the world.
Luc Besson himself can be called only one French director is commercially successful and often deal with large berbujet film. This year alone he has been busy with the sequel of ARTHUR ET LES Minimoys (2006) and this movie and become producers FROM PARIS WITH LOVE and L'IMMORTEL with Jean Reno.
Take the setting of Paris before the First World War an egg-old pterodactyl 136 million years suddenly hatched and create chaos in Paris. The only thing that can be overcome only Adele Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin).
He is a journalist who traveled to Egypt to discover the tomb of Ramses II in Egypt. Adele lives fighting mummies in Egypt.
Originally Adele Blanc-Sec is an author of fiction novels and then turned into a journalist.
Adele Blanc-Sec character itself is described as a stubborn woman brave and beautiful, she was even able to get away from danger and enemies of magnitude, Dieuleveult (Mathieu Amalric), an archaeologist.
Back to the sarcophagus, Adele found out that a scientist could raise his younger brother in a coma and at the same time be the one to remove the pterodactyl. He only assisted a regular detective and weird hunter who wants to conquer the beast.
In this film there are many themes covered, magic, patriotism, journalism, corruption, political intrigue and adventure of street crime and of course the style of Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. As the film berseting earlier times, the film is generous in giving the ancient Parisian sights and feels like Indiana Jones adventure film with major stars plus the effects of an amazing woman.
With a budget of U.S. $ 40.8 million less than budget sequel made by Luc Besson Arthur which U.S. $ 88.4 million, but the trailer shows that the actual budget for the usual Hollywood standards, Luc is able to show convincingly ancient Paris.
List of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec comics
1. Adele et la bete (Adele and the Beast) (1976)
2. Le demon de la tour Eiffel (The Demon of the Eiffel Tower) (1976)
3. Le savant fou (The Mad Scientist) (1977)
4. Momies en folie (Mummies on Parade) (1978)
5. Le secret de la salamandre (The Secret of the Salamander) (1981)
6. Le noye a deux tetes (The Drowned Man with Two Heads) (1985)
7. Tous des monstres! (Monsters AU!) (1994)
8. Le mystere des profondeurs (The Mystery of the Abyss) (1998)
9. Le labyrinthe infernat (2007)
