It has been made into a movie, the french film : Folle à tuer ("crazy to kill")(1975) with Marlene Jobert (Eva Green's mother). Two other Manchette/Tardi were adapted:"West Coast Blues" made into "3 hommes à abattre"("3 men to kill")(1980) with Alain Delon ,and "Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot"made into "Le choc" ("Shock") (1982) again with Delon, and "The Gunman"(2015) with Sean Penn. Not great movies, the best one being perhaps "3 men to kill".
This one for me is not his best work but neither the worst. Although the worst Tardi's is still good. There are a lot that I personally rank higher than this and generally his latest works aren't the best ones. I can also say that no matter who he is adapting, the text is mainly his. So he is not taking words from the novels just because he likes them. I don't know how the translation is but the captions are always rich, they don't simply state what's going on, they add the mood and they are there to set the pace. The fact that he is not dynamic nor has crazy spectacular things showing off is what makes his comics auterish and, yes, it is common in Europe to have this "stage play" as you call it, but this is exactly what Guy Ritchie doesn't! Guy is a mainstream/alternative director. Tardi's more into the likes of Melville and other french nouvelle vague polar directors, with grotesque irony in the middle. Tardi's one of my favourite writers (and ofc authors), I love to read his dialogues, I love his grotesque irony, his subtle references to France politics and culture. He never tells them directly, even his approach to a documentarian thing like wwii is peculiar. I don't remember how it was in run like crazy. I could even try to put them in order of preference, from the best: It was the war of the trenches You are there (idk if you'll like it, but surely it was one of the most important EU comics of the 70's) Goddamn this War! (Some would disagree and put it lower) Le Cri du Peuple (not traslated I think) Cockroach killer (the story from NY mon Amour) Griffu (this one was written by Manchette, not adapted, and I think it's the best of his polar works because Tardi was around his peak and it was written in 70's and there was nothing in comics in terms of noir genre that came close to it) Like a Sniper (the best Manchette adaption and I believe that it's better than the novel itself, which is quite good) Le der des ders (not translated) The first 2 Nestor Burma adaptions, especially the second (they are far superior to the novels according to common thoughts and Tardi doesn't even like these novels, he liked the setting, so he improved them) West coast blues La Debauche (not translated) Run like crazy run like hell Elise and the New resistance I, Renè Tardi, prisoner... Adele Blanc Sec (this is actually one of my favourites of the bunch but objectively I don't think that as a whole series it can stand with his best works and it was his best seller. I don't think that you will like it). There are still some more that I recommend but the list is already long. The channel for the love of comics did a video on Tardi 's fantagraphics release, you can check it to have an overview.
It has been made into a movie, the french film : Folle à tuer ("crazy to kill")(1975) with Marlene Jobert (Eva Green's mother).
Two other Manchette/Tardi were adapted:"West Coast Blues" made into "3 hommes à abattre"("3 men to kill")(1980) with Alain Delon ,and "Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot"made into "Le choc" ("Shock") (1982) again with Delon, and "The Gunman"(2015) with Sean Penn. Not great movies, the best one being perhaps "3 men to kill".
Very cool!
In my humble opinion Tardi should have been a newspaper strip artist. But that stopped being a real thing a long time ago.
He woulda been great at it!
love Tardi's crime stuff. this ones one of the stronger ones
Ooo, disagreement in the comments! Go argue with the people who think this is a middling one. Hahaha.
This one for me is not his best work but neither the worst. Although the worst Tardi's is still good. There are a lot that I personally rank higher than this and generally his latest works aren't the best ones. I can also say that no matter who he is adapting, the text is mainly his. So he is not taking words from the novels just because he likes them. I don't know how the translation is but the captions are always rich, they don't simply state what's going on, they add the mood and they are there to set the pace. The fact that he is not dynamic nor has crazy spectacular things showing off is what makes his comics auterish and, yes, it is common in Europe to have this "stage play" as you call it, but this is exactly what Guy Ritchie doesn't! Guy is a mainstream/alternative director. Tardi's more into the likes of Melville and other french nouvelle vague polar directors, with grotesque irony in the middle.
Tardi's one of my favourite writers (and ofc authors), I love to read his dialogues, I love his grotesque irony, his subtle references to France politics and culture. He never tells them directly, even his approach to a documentarian thing like wwii is peculiar. I don't remember how it was in run like crazy.
I could even try to put them in order of preference, from the best:
It was the war of the trenches
You are there (idk if you'll like it, but surely it was one of the most important EU comics of the 70's)
Goddamn this War! (Some would disagree and put it lower)
Le Cri du Peuple (not traslated I think)
Cockroach killer (the story from NY mon Amour)
Griffu (this one was written by Manchette, not adapted, and I think it's the best of his polar works because Tardi was around his peak and it was written in 70's and there was nothing in comics in terms of noir genre that came close to it)
Like a Sniper (the best Manchette adaption and I believe that it's better than the novel itself, which is quite good)
Le der des ders (not translated)
The first 2 Nestor Burma adaptions, especially the second (they are far superior to the novels according to common thoughts and Tardi doesn't even like these novels, he liked the setting, so he improved them)
West coast blues
La Debauche (not translated)
Run like crazy run like hell
Elise and the New resistance
I, Renè Tardi, prisoner...
Adele Blanc Sec (this is actually one of my favourites of the bunch but objectively I don't think that as a whole series it can stand with his best works and it was his best seller. I don't think that you will like it).
There are still some more that I recommend but the list is already long.
The channel for the love of comics did a video on Tardi 's fantagraphics release, you can check it to have an overview.
Thank you so much for all of the infotmation!