However, creating an animated film was not the first choice of producers Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault (2.4.7 Films).

Persepolis has dreamlike moments the drawings help us to maintain cohesion and consistency, and the black-and-white also helped in this respect, as did the abstraction of the setting and location.' I think this helped everybody to relate to it, whether in China, Israel, Chile, or Korea it's a universal story. 'The novels have been a worldwide success because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. 'At best, it would have been an exotic story, and at worst, a 'third-world' story. 'With live-action, it would have turned into a story of people living in a distant land who don't look like us,' Satrapi says. Satrapi co-directed, with Vincent Paronnaud, the animated film version of her memoir, and she notes that animation was her first choice for the adaptation. The story follows a precocious and outspoken nine-year-old through young adulthood, and illustrates the challenges faced by a modern young woman trying to forge an identity while having to conform within a tyrannical society. The books illustrate - both figuratively and actually - the life of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Persepolis is also the name of the acclaimed graphic novels, published in English in 20, that tell the personal story of author/artist Marjane Satrapi. The name carries the history of a grand civilization, besieged by waves of invaders, that carried on through millennia - a heritage that is deeper and more complex than the present-day view of Iran may reflect. Persepolis is the name of the Persian capital founded in the 6th century BC by Darius I, which was later destroyed by Alexander the Great.

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