Cellulose
to Celluloid: Flash
Gordon on Paper and Film
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Chapter
Ten: The Sky City of the Hawk Men
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| The
episode of the Hawk Men was more complex in the strip
than the movie. The floating city idea was borrowed
from Johnathan Swift, an apocryphal Goya painting, and
stolen by George Lucas and Leigh Brackett over forty
years later. |
| Princess
Aura is a real wild card during the Hawk Men adventure.
She is nearly an enemy in the comic strip, but nearly
an ally in the movie. Her jealousy and lust create a
lot of trouble for everyone. |
| Sunday
Comic Strip and Saturday Matinee meet again when Flash
revolts, and sabotages the Atom Furnace. |
| Barbarian
King Vultan of the Hawk Men has a choice -- play ball,
or suffer a long fall! |
| Given
the alternative, Vultan chooses to join the Good Guys
and keeps his word, which seems to be rare on
Planet Mongo. At this juncture, in both the movie and
comic strip: Zarkoff is sane, and allied with Flash
and Dale; New character Prince Barin has joined the
Earth People against Ming; Prince Thun leaves the scene
for awhile, and King Vultan forces the Emperor to declare
a tournament which will decide Flash Gordon's future.
The two plots have taken very different paths, and will
diverge again soon, but they converge now. |
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Gordon
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Text and graphic design copyright by Michael R. Evans 2008
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