{"id":1321,"date":"2009-12-15T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2009-12-15T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:40:14","slug":"the-king-the-worst-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2009\/12\/15\/the-king-the-worst-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The King & The Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish director,\u00a0David Gal\u00e1n Galindo<\/a> has released\u00a0the first three minutes of his short film, The King & The Worst<\/strong>, the trailer of which was featured at here<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

This clip serves as an introduction to the meeting of our two heroes,\u00a0Jack Kirby<\/em> (Luis Yague) and Ed Wood<\/em> (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Benedicto), before the film switches to colour and a mysterious stranger enlists the bewildered soldiers to do battle against supernatural forces, bent on world domination. Luis Yague\u00a0portrays Kirby as a courageous and dedicated solider and is particularly touching in a scene where he longs to be reunited with his wife, Rosalind<\/em>.\u00a0Benedicto provides the\u00a0comic relief as Wood, who quickly swaps his battle fatigues for his trademark pink angora sweater and blond wig. Production values are impressive\u00a0for such a low budget film, especially the costume design, and the film zips along with some spirited direction. The horror\/fantasy theme means that there is some gore and bad language, which strikes as odd for a tribute to a man whose creations inspired children the world over. A minor quibble because ultimately, The King & The Worst<\/strong>, is notable for it’s admiration for it’s protagonists careers and an enthusiasm\u00a0for the horror genre it owes it’s inspiration too.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to David for providing\u00a0Kirby-Vision<\/strong> with a copy of the full twenty minute film for review.\u00a0As of yet there are no plans for a DVD or Internet release of the film. It has been shown as a number of European film festivals and David is currently in the process of securing some more screenings, for further details please see David’s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Spanish director,\u00a0David Gal\u00e1n Galindo has released\u00a0the first three minutes of his short film, The King & The Worst, the trailer of which was featured at here last month. This clip serves as an introduction to the meeting of our two heroes,\u00a0Jack Kirby (Luis Yague) and Ed Wood (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Benedicto), before the film switches to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-galan-galindo","category-the-king-the-worst"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}