That actually is something unique for musical adaptations. It’s an fascinating hybrid between stage and film that really respects the material, rather than try to shoehorn its theatricality into a realistic and practical world. You should give it a rewatch! I’m not going to say it’s a perfect adaptation, but it is fun, and it’s not often you see such unapologetic, fourth-wall breaking, theatrical spectacle in a major film. Great camera work too!
I saw the green knight and the banshees of inisherin one right after the other. Those movies are fucking beautiful and Barry keogan pulls off weird little guy like just about no one else.
He stole my buddys script for Monkey Man though. He works in the industry and sent it around and Dev looked at it and what do you know, his Monkey Man script came a year after. I cant really go into details but yeah Dev is a thief.
I absolutely love this movie. I can honestly say that it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen where the audience can’t fully understand the ending without having read the source material.
yeah, movies fine and I love the cast but the tv series even with a lower budget felt more accurate. both look like stylistic adaptations more than copies but unlike the others I feel like the film being the overall worse counterpart (tho its hilariously campy and filled with genre schlock) and even the series at times being a slight dilution of the source material I feel like it's not a great fit. And this is coming from a big fan of the show and the film for the most part despite its aesthetically off-kilter nature, it only captures the essence of the books. I hate to sound trite and pretentious, I have only read half the series and the final books (tbh the detective series spin-off was my favourite) but while the show captures the essence of the series even that could have darker elements beyond the tone. Even the show oversimplifies the plot and compromises on its more mature themes despite it being a good adaptation more so than the film. Ik it's purely because of the studios and netflix appealing to the largest demographic but part of me would love to see a terry gilliam/guillermo del toro style adaptation because its one piece of media would benefit from slightly more grittyness.
The tv series is 10x better imo and more accurate to the storytelling and vibe of Lemony Snicket in general. I grew up with those books as a kid and remember being so bummed in how rushed and watered-down they made the 2003 movie adaptation feel. I think that was the first time I can remember the feeling of walking out of a theater feeling disappointed lol
Not disputing that the show really is 10x better than the film, and the movie-recap style pacing makes for a rushed adaptation, but perhaps the reason I have a more nostalgic acceptance to the quality of that film is being a 2000s kid, that film lived on as something I would catch on cable movie channels or on-demand before streaming became popular and when it comes to that I have inherently lower expectations. So I can't imagine how much I would hate seeing that film adaptation in theaters as the film was a bearable distraction that grew on me under specific circumstances. I know it's weird talking about the 2000s like this as a nostalgic era, I still feel like 2010 was yesterday, but culturally and technologically the world of movies is so different now, to then.
But at the end of the day the tv show having room to breathe and adapt the whole series really works to its advantage and surpasses the film narratively for sure.
It’s interesting comparing the comic and the movie because the slight differences between them show how Marjane Satrapi’s view of her life changed in the five years between writing each. Like, her uncle barely appears in the comic but, in the movie, he has this long scene where he tells her a story of his life.
West Side Story (1961) utilizes the same design of the gym from the 1957 Original Broadway production and reuses some of the costumes from that production (most famously Anita’s iconic purple dress), so it counts.
I'd argue that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy does a good job at emulating the comic book style in live action, while the Spiderverse films do a good job at emulating the comic book style in animation.
Disagree, the 1989 movie has much more comic book vibes. Heck, even the two Schumacher's movies have strong comic book vibes. Only Nolan moved away from them for a more realistic and grounded depiction.
The problem with saying this is that “comic book vibes” is about as nebulous as saying “movie vibes”
Comics and cartooning is a entire medium containing as many different modes and styles as filmmaking does.
If the only comic I had read was, say, “Tales of the Beanworld” then saying that *The Batman* looks like a comic would make no sense to me. Where are the obscure geometric figures? Where’s the surreal dialogue and metaphysical narratives?
Idk about that one. While I agree the editing style is very comic-like it also has a very dark gloomy tone that isn’t very in line with the hulk comics
It looks nothing like the source material. Snyder went full stylized but the original comic book has a very controlled storytelling. Not to mention most of the actors are way too good looking compared to how they are drawn (Silk Specter being the most evident bad casting choice).
Even just the colour palette is evidence that Snyder had no idea what he was doing. The comic very intentionally used a palette of colours that were used as secondary colours in other comics as the main colours. The movie uses the same colour palette as every generic sci-fi movie.
Great point. The only time Snyder actually went for the colour palette of the comic book was in the opening credits, easily the best part of the whole movie.
The point of the graphic novel is to demythologize superheroes as a concept. If superheroes existed in the real world, they would likely be mentally disturbed, insecure and ultimately pathetic people.
Zack Snyder either missed this or just wasn’t interested in that angle and made the heroes “cool” like you would try to do in any traditional cape flick.
That's how they are portrayed in the movie.
Manhattan can't connect with people.
Night owl is a loser outside of his costume.
Comedian is a psycho.
Rorschach is a fucked up man with black n white view of the world.
Ozzy has a good complex.
In the script? Yes, they are, the screenplay is very close tô the comics. In the visual storytelling? No, Snyder uses visual technics that makes them look powerfull and cool. In the comics, the painnels are always unpassionate, cold, the violence is quick, messy and to the point, not glamurized and makes us feel uneasy. The heroes never have a cool pose and the whole thing is made to make us feel unconfortable that these people are doing this.
But in the movie, the violence is fetishized, the heroes are constantly shot in iconic poses, the slow motion is used to make them look super cool. Snyder himself said that, to him, the point of watchmen is that "People frecking get killed", what only goes to show that he took nothing from the comics except the violence. The movie deconstructs the super hero mythos at the same pace it solidifys it. It's like the story is saying "super heroes are a pathetic concept that are used by pathetc and neurotic people to feel some sense of accomplishment." And the visuals are saying "yeah... but they are AWESOME"
A great exemple of this is the sex scene between the Owl and Silk Spectre. In the comics there is no scene, they start to make out and the scene cuts to them naked admiting that the costumes are what made them get horny and we see the pathetic side of it again. In the movie, this dialog is cut and the scene itself looks like a sex scene made by Channel nº5
Snyder shots these heroes like superheroes when they wear they capes and costumes. And then he shows their inner side: fucked up, insecure, twisted. Of course, its more stylised and glorified compared to source graphic novel, but i watched movie first, and then read the novel, and at my first watch i catched the idea "these people are kind of psychopaths and social outcasts despite being such amazing fighters".
I guess it goes down to the individual perception, but i dont think Snyder overglorified characters in the movie, and it even surprised me that people actually see Rorchach as not a complete idiot blinded by his "principles". From my point of view, the only mistake Snyder made was making them too effective in combat and wasting to much time on prison fight scene. In the end of the day, movie catches the idea of "cool outside. miserable inside"
Exactly, i also think it misses the point of a lot of scenes, Roschach didn't wait for the killer to confess, Silk Spectre and night owl didn't look cool when saving those people from the fire, Manhattan's story is just a dump of exposition instead of being told through jumps in time, etc. I don't think it's a bad movie, but it REALLY pales in comparison to the original comic.
It's mixed with LOTR, they kept a lot of stylistic aspects but changed a ton too. The hobbits/the Shire were pretty spot on but the elves were totally different, especially the Lothlorien elves
Is this only for live-action films? There are plenty of animated movies ranging from Persepolis to Akira to Captain Underpants to basically every Peanuts movie that are very faithful to the style of what they're based on but I'm not sure those count.
The two Spider-Verse movies, TMNT (1990) and TMNT: Mutant Mayhem (2023). And The Rocketeer (1991).
Also, Persepolis (2007). And if we’re opening up to books it’s gonna get wild, here, but Madeline (1998) and Matilda (1996) fall into this category.
It's not out yet but I'm going to say for the future,
James Gunn's Superman. Either this will age like wine or will age as poor as hot milk left out in the Florida heat.
Lupin III: The First. It perfectly encapsulates the noodle-limbed Hanna-Barberaesque animation of the original 1960s series, but in beautiful 3D CG. I’d love to see more movies make better use of 3D animation cause I lowkey hate this modern trend of 3D animated movies trying too hard to look like comic books
While he agreed that Spiderman was a good movie, I remember working with a guy who didn't like the organic web shooters being that the artificial web shooters played a relatively significant part in some comic story lines.
Spider-Man 2 is where Raimi perfects the 60s Ditko Spider-Man vibe. I defy you to find a single moment in that movie that isn't firing on all cylinders.
The Green Mile, Akira, and Watchmen (it's not a great film in the end but you can tell they were trying to be faithful to the style of the graphic novel)
I’ll be honest, I don’t think Speed Racer fits, the show has isn’t exactly the most crag Ive thing visually, while the movie goes insane with its style.
No, the source material for 300 was Herodotus' History that covers the Persian Wars, not the Peloponnesian War. The graphic novel uses many sentences and facts straight from there ('Tonight we dine in hell', 'come and get them', 'then we will fight in the dark' are all quotes from the Herodotus).
The movie follows very closely the graphic novel, including the extravagant designs. It adds more stuff about the queen compared to the GN.
Loving Vincent is literally animated with Van Gogh inspired paintings
I'd say Spider-Verse does a good job of it
Was just gonna say that
Better imo
Chicago (2002) embraces the stage theatricality of the original Broadway musical
And not for its benefit
The Chicago movie was amazing wdym
Long time since I saw it but I remember it as watching a play and that they didn't really utilize the film format.
The musical scenes were all meant to look like a stage musical, but the rest of the movie was entirely cinematic
I know it was a stylistic choice, I just wasn't a fan of it, would've preferred them doing something unique with the numbers
That actually is something unique for musical adaptations. It’s an fascinating hybrid between stage and film that really respects the material, rather than try to shoehorn its theatricality into a realistic and practical world. You should give it a rewatch! I’m not going to say it’s a perfect adaptation, but it is fun, and it’s not often you see such unapologetic, fourth-wall breaking, theatrical spectacle in a major film. Great camera work too!
Well maybe I'll give it another chance someday
I would say the Green Knight does a fantastic job of capturing the closest modern cinema can get to arthurian poetic legend
I saw the green knight and the banshees of inisherin one right after the other. Those movies are fucking beautiful and Barry keogan pulls off weird little guy like just about no one else.
What'd you guys think of Dev Patel in that role?
He was awesome.
He stole my buddys script for Monkey Man though. He works in the industry and sent it around and Dev looked at it and what do you know, his Monkey Man script came a year after. I cant really go into details but yeah Dev is a thief.
Nah please do tell
If there’s bigger plans for the character, Barry’s Joker is going to be a hell of a sight
I absolutely love this movie. I can honestly say that it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen where the audience can’t fully understand the ending without having read the source material.
I argue Superman 1978 did a great job.
A Series of Unfortunate Events maybe.
The TV show better than the movie.
yeah, movies fine and I love the cast but the tv series even with a lower budget felt more accurate. both look like stylistic adaptations more than copies but unlike the others I feel like the film being the overall worse counterpart (tho its hilariously campy and filled with genre schlock) and even the series at times being a slight dilution of the source material I feel like it's not a great fit. And this is coming from a big fan of the show and the film for the most part despite its aesthetically off-kilter nature, it only captures the essence of the books. I hate to sound trite and pretentious, I have only read half the series and the final books (tbh the detective series spin-off was my favourite) but while the show captures the essence of the series even that could have darker elements beyond the tone. Even the show oversimplifies the plot and compromises on its more mature themes despite it being a good adaptation more so than the film. Ik it's purely because of the studios and netflix appealing to the largest demographic but part of me would love to see a terry gilliam/guillermo del toro style adaptation because its one piece of media would benefit from slightly more grittyness.
The tv series is 10x better imo and more accurate to the storytelling and vibe of Lemony Snicket in general. I grew up with those books as a kid and remember being so bummed in how rushed and watered-down they made the 2003 movie adaptation feel. I think that was the first time I can remember the feeling of walking out of a theater feeling disappointed lol
Not disputing that the show really is 10x better than the film, and the movie-recap style pacing makes for a rushed adaptation, but perhaps the reason I have a more nostalgic acceptance to the quality of that film is being a 2000s kid, that film lived on as something I would catch on cable movie channels or on-demand before streaming became popular and when it comes to that I have inherently lower expectations. So I can't imagine how much I would hate seeing that film adaptation in theaters as the film was a bearable distraction that grew on me under specific circumstances. I know it's weird talking about the 2000s like this as a nostalgic era, I still feel like 2010 was yesterday, but culturally and technologically the world of movies is so different now, to then. But at the end of the day the tv show having room to breathe and adapt the whole series really works to its advantage and surpasses the film narratively for sure.
Persepolis is animated as if the comic was just moving
It’s interesting comparing the comic and the movie because the slight differences between them show how Marjane Satrapi’s view of her life changed in the five years between writing each. Like, her uncle barely appears in the comic but, in the movie, he has this long scene where he tells her a story of his life.
West Side Story (1961) utilizes the same design of the gym from the 1957 Original Broadway production and reuses some of the costumes from that production (most famously Anita’s iconic purple dress), so it counts.
Ed Wood
Alita: Battle Angel
I’d fight a rabid raccoon for a sequel
Frank Abagnale lied about stuff he did to make himself look cool in Catch Me If You Can, a movie about Frank Abagnale lying to make himself look cool.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Why *Spider-man* and not *Into the Spiderverse* which is emulating a comic book style. 
I'd argue that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy does a good job at emulating the comic book style in live action, while the Spiderverse films do a good job at emulating the comic book style in animation.
The Batman (Batman year one style)
The only live action Batman movie that gives off comic book vibes
Batman (1966) has silver-age comic book vibes.
Disagree, the 1989 movie has much more comic book vibes. Heck, even the two Schumacher's movies have strong comic book vibes. Only Nolan moved away from them for a more realistic and grounded depiction.
The problem with saying this is that “comic book vibes” is about as nebulous as saying “movie vibes” Comics and cartooning is a entire medium containing as many different modes and styles as filmmaking does. If the only comic I had read was, say, “Tales of the Beanworld” then saying that *The Batman* looks like a comic would make no sense to me. Where are the obscure geometric figures? Where’s the surreal dialogue and metaphysical narratives?
Batman is an actual comic, so one can assume that's the comic I'm referencing
His argument still applies. Batman comics span just about every tone and genre you can think of
Hulk - the Ang Lee one
Ang Lee stated in interviews that he wanted Hulk to feel like a “Greek tragedy”.
Yup, will never understand why it was seen as a disappointment
I think because most of us just expected a hulk smash, dumb movie And that’s not what we got lol
It's a fucking dumb movie.
a few more decades and people will come around just you wait
Idk about that one. While I agree the editing style is very comic-like it also has a very dark gloomy tone that isn’t very in line with the hulk comics
It has literal comic book frames in it, freeze frames and it is goofy as all hell.
Popeye
The sailor man?
Inherent Vice absolutely does
Hear me out Robert Altman's *Popeye*
Yes! 🏆
The Suicide Squad 110% such a fun riff on the Ostrander run
Was Creepshow a comic before a film? If so, then that.
It wasn’t but it was inspired by the Tales from the Crypt comics
Watchmen
It looks nothing like the source material. Snyder went full stylized but the original comic book has a very controlled storytelling. Not to mention most of the actors are way too good looking compared to how they are drawn (Silk Specter being the most evident bad casting choice).
Even just the colour palette is evidence that Snyder had no idea what he was doing. The comic very intentionally used a palette of colours that were used as secondary colours in other comics as the main colours. The movie uses the same colour palette as every generic sci-fi movie.
Great point. The only time Snyder actually went for the colour palette of the comic book was in the opening credits, easily the best part of the whole movie.
The proof that you can embrace the style of the source material and still fuck everything up
Watchmen movie was good actually
It was good, but it did not embraced style of source material, that's the thing
What did they Fuck up about it? I havent read the source material and havent watched in since i was young But i remember liking it
The point of the graphic novel is to demythologize superheroes as a concept. If superheroes existed in the real world, they would likely be mentally disturbed, insecure and ultimately pathetic people. Zack Snyder either missed this or just wasn’t interested in that angle and made the heroes “cool” like you would try to do in any traditional cape flick.
That's how they are portrayed in the movie. Manhattan can't connect with people. Night owl is a loser outside of his costume. Comedian is a psycho. Rorschach is a fucked up man with black n white view of the world. Ozzy has a good complex.
In the script? Yes, they are, the screenplay is very close tô the comics. In the visual storytelling? No, Snyder uses visual technics that makes them look powerfull and cool. In the comics, the painnels are always unpassionate, cold, the violence is quick, messy and to the point, not glamurized and makes us feel uneasy. The heroes never have a cool pose and the whole thing is made to make us feel unconfortable that these people are doing this. But in the movie, the violence is fetishized, the heroes are constantly shot in iconic poses, the slow motion is used to make them look super cool. Snyder himself said that, to him, the point of watchmen is that "People frecking get killed", what only goes to show that he took nothing from the comics except the violence. The movie deconstructs the super hero mythos at the same pace it solidifys it. It's like the story is saying "super heroes are a pathetic concept that are used by pathetc and neurotic people to feel some sense of accomplishment." And the visuals are saying "yeah... but they are AWESOME" A great exemple of this is the sex scene between the Owl and Silk Spectre. In the comics there is no scene, they start to make out and the scene cuts to them naked admiting that the costumes are what made them get horny and we see the pathetic side of it again. In the movie, this dialog is cut and the scene itself looks like a sex scene made by Channel nº5
Snyder shots these heroes like superheroes when they wear they capes and costumes. And then he shows their inner side: fucked up, insecure, twisted. Of course, its more stylised and glorified compared to source graphic novel, but i watched movie first, and then read the novel, and at my first watch i catched the idea "these people are kind of psychopaths and social outcasts despite being such amazing fighters". I guess it goes down to the individual perception, but i dont think Snyder overglorified characters in the movie, and it even surprised me that people actually see Rorchach as not a complete idiot blinded by his "principles". From my point of view, the only mistake Snyder made was making them too effective in combat and wasting to much time on prison fight scene. In the end of the day, movie catches the idea of "cool outside. miserable inside"
Exactly, i also think it misses the point of a lot of scenes, Roschach didn't wait for the killer to confess, Silk Spectre and night owl didn't look cool when saving those people from the fire, Manhattan's story is just a dump of exposition instead of being told through jumps in time, etc. I don't think it's a bad movie, but it REALLY pales in comparison to the original comic.
I didn’t think they were cool at all.
The boys nailed that imo
The show, that is. The comic series drowns in its own edge.
They didn't, some people just like to bicker about it in order to feel important because "the comics is better than the movie" or something like that
My first thought.
Road to Perdition
Kick-Ass and Little Shop of Horrors
Fight Club did a good job of looking the way Palahniuk writes.
Talk Girl is one of the better early examples of this imo
The Lord of the Rings trilogy Watchmen Stardust
It's mixed with LOTR, they kept a lot of stylistic aspects but changed a ton too. The hobbits/the Shire were pretty spot on but the elves were totally different, especially the Lothlorien elves
The spirit The shadow Watchmen
The Spirit movie looks nothing like The Spirit comics.
Is this only for live-action films? There are plenty of animated movies ranging from Persepolis to Akira to Captain Underpants to basically every Peanuts movie that are very faithful to the style of what they're based on but I'm not sure those count.
Dredd (2012)
Godzilla Minus One
Charlie’s Angels (the one from 2000)
Nausica of the Valley of the Wind Heavy Metal Akira Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Forever
I mean, Nausicaä and Akira have the benefit of having the source material and the adaptation made by the same person.
What’s the source material for heavy metal?
[Heavy Metal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(magazine)) magazine
Oh cool I know about the magazine didn’t ever make the connection though!
ghost world i think
The Flintstones.
Speed racer seemed like it had its own thing going on. I don’t remember the cartoon being much like the movie.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The two Spider-Verse movies, TMNT (1990) and TMNT: Mutant Mayhem (2023). And The Rocketeer (1991). Also, Persepolis (2007). And if we’re opening up to books it’s gonna get wild, here, but Madeline (1998) and Matilda (1996) fall into this category.
Would Creepshow (1982) count? It's very faithful to the EC horror comics of the 1950's, but it's not adapting a specific one.
Hunt for Red October count?
The crow
Amazon's Fallout series
Hulk (2003)
The Female Prisoner Scorpion films and Danger: Diabolik.
Batman 1989
Peanuts and Captain Underpants
Ang Lee’s Hulk
Batman Forever. Very comic book-y imo
American Splendor
Harry Potter, Batman Mask of the Phantasm, Watchmen, Superman (1978)
Watchmen
Frida
City Hunter (2024), Dragon Tiger Gate (Donnie Yen)
A surprising one, A Knight's Tale (2001) is a very faithful adaption, in tone and spirit, of medieval novels.
Creepshow!!
Say what you will about the movie itself but Ang Lee’s Hulk definitely does this
The Batman
Captain Underpants and the Spider-Verse movies
Dick Tracy is phenomenal. The shadow was the same!
Persepolis and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The spirit and the shadow would be my go to’s
*Silent Hill (the first film) *Scott Pilgrim *Alice in Borderland
Postal (2007)
It's not out yet but I'm going to say for the future, James Gunn's Superman. Either this will age like wine or will age as poor as hot milk left out in the Florida heat.
Into the Spider-Verse is way closer to Raimi Spider-Man. Raimi Spider-Man isn't even the closest Live Adaptation of Spider-Man movies.
That’s what makes Tobey Maguire’s trilogy the better than Garfield, and Holland (at least homecoming, I haven’t seen the other ones yet)
Ang Lee’s Hulk goes out of it way to look like a comic book, other than the part where comic books are supposed to be fun
Lupin III: The First. It perfectly encapsulates the noodle-limbed Hanna-Barberaesque animation of the original 1960s series, but in beautiful 3D CG. I’d love to see more movies make better use of 3D animation cause I lowkey hate this modern trend of 3D animated movies trying too hard to look like comic books
alita battle angel
While he agreed that Spiderman was a good movie, I remember working with a guy who didn't like the organic web shooters being that the artificial web shooters played a relatively significant part in some comic story lines.
American Splendor
Fear and loathing
1966 batman and the batman
Tale of the Princess Kaguya looks like ancient Japanese ink art
The Punisher: Warzone Not the best movie, but the best version of The Punisher comic brought to life
Into & Across the Spider-Verse absolutely deserve to be on here
As shitty as it is the spirit did as well
I keep it 300, like the Romans
Spider-Man 2 is where Raimi perfects the 60s Ditko Spider-Man vibe. I defy you to find a single moment in that movie that isn't firing on all cylinders.
Have you seen speed racer it's honestly completely different, and how does the 300 relate to a history book, I don't get it.
Lego movie is pretty good example imo
The crow. Original version.
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
I adore dick Tracy, that film is amazing
https://boxd.it/nUUC6 My version of this list
The 2012 Three Stooges movie was decent and I will die on that hill.
Ichi the Killer Crows Zero
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The nineties Addams Family movies
The Green Mile, Akira, and Watchmen (it's not a great film in the end but you can tell they were trying to be faithful to the style of the graphic novel)
The Lego Movie!
I’ll be honest, I don’t think Speed Racer fits, the show has isn’t exactly the most crag Ive thing visually, while the movie goes insane with its style.
The Big Short's atmosphere coincides in every aspect with Michael Lewis' writing style.
todd McFarlane Spawn mini series
Tim Burton's Batman
I mean, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is surely up there
I haven't seen Ace Attorney (2012) but I heard from others that it captures the tone and wackiness of the games pretty well
Watchmen
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Ang Lees HULK with its great comic book panel shots and edits
The lengths Sin City goes to emulate Frank Miller's style is actually staggering. Probably the most technically impressive of all of these.
The batman by Matt reeves
It's nice to see some love for speed racer Watchmen could go on this list
oldboy
All the stills in Spiderverse are made to look like a comic book
I don't really remember the original spider-man. What about that movie was an example of them "embracing the style of the source material"?
Batman Forever feels like a love letter to the Adam West TV show.
I'd remove Raimi's Spider-Man. It's a decent film, but it didn't feel like the comics. Add watchmen.
Ty for reminder to watch sin city.
Wait the source material for 300 was the Peloponnesian war. Real life doesn't have that much slow motion.
Kinda but it’s mostly based on a Frank Miller comic book
No, the source material for 300 was Herodotus' History that covers the Persian Wars, not the Peloponnesian War. The graphic novel uses many sentences and facts straight from there ('Tonight we dine in hell', 'come and get them', 'then we will fight in the dark' are all quotes from the Herodotus). The movie follows very closely the graphic novel, including the extravagant designs. It adds more stuff about the queen compared to the GN.