![]() ![]() And then we've got the prince as the Geronimo kind of guy saying: "Or, we could kill them all!" You've got the fatalistic old Indian chief who says, "We've had our time so quietly follow me down into the shadows." That's the old elf king in this film. I compare it to the cavalry wiping out American Indians. ![]() In Hellboy II, we wanted someone more understandable and sympathetic. Mignola: It was hard to understand the motivation of Rasputin in the first film. How did you picture the rebel fairy prince? Wired_.com_: _No superhero movie is complete without a villain. I'd be going, "We don't need a big parade of a roomful of monsters." I'm a less-is-more guy and del Toro is a more-is-not-enough guy. ![]() Mignola: My original idea was to do the Troll Market as a tent city of homeless people under the Brooklyn Bridge where you start to notice, "Hey this guy has scales," or "That one's got a cloven hoof." Del Toro thinks so huge, he wanted to go underground and show the whole fairy world, which is a lot more expensive. Wired_.com_:_ So you two had different approaches to the Troll scene? The onscreen realization of the character is below. Mignola's sketches for Wink, above, were inspired by Hellboy II co-star Selma Blair's one-eyed rescue dog. ![]()
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