Lately my girlfriend finally managed to make me watch these Italian
heroic fantasy TV films from the 90's called
Fantaghirò (or
The Cave of the Golden Rose, in some countries like France). While I think the backstory and the characters are cool and rather interesting, the films themselves aged poorly: bad acting, bad cinematography, bad synth music, so-so costumes (I mean, some are decent, some are really bad), super bad special effects and even worse dubbing (at least the French version we are watching)... But I must admit it has a certain charm, and Alessandra Martines as the main character is lovely!
As a consequence, here is a fan art - thank
Margaux Saltel for the help with the coloring (I was lazy on this part). Would you read a comic with this kind of artstyle? Please let me know :)
PS. I didn't exagerate the boobs for the Black Queen! Don't blame me for it! :D
"super bad special effects"
ReplyDeleteNa, not all special effects are bad, somethig are pretty good; In addition, the design of the creatures was made by Sergio Stivaletti, not exactly the latest in this work.
However, I admit that this series has ups and downs, but bear in mind that this is a low-budget Italian TV product, and the 90s for more; years in which Italian television was already beginning to fail, offering increasingly banal, stupid and repetitive products.
Today the situation has worsened by far, and at the time a product like this seemed almost a blockbuster compared to the other television junk that was served to us.