Watchmen as a comic was written specifically to be a comic. It would need a massive rewrite to work as a film. Otherwise the impact is muddled. I can elaborate on that sometime if anyone cares
For real, I feel like people who think it can be filmed haven't read the comic, which they should do and it takes like a few hours tops. You can for sure do the overall story as a movie but the way it's formatted really tells half the story, it was meticulously designed to work as a comic and really can't be altered from that medium without losing a lot
Yeah, in pretentious terms it's ergodic, like the book Pale Fire. It's structured for the reader's ability to flip back and forth between pages, consult previous issues, and overall not be limited by a linear perception of the story's events. Also things like the speech bubbles. Rorschach has jagged, malformed bubbles in the present which the reader could interpret as his mask or a scratchy voice. But then the scenes in the 60s show Rorschach with normal speech bubbles, then he has normal ones again when not wearing his mask. I don't know how that particular aspect could be shown in a film. The 2009 movie just had him do a throaty Batman voice throughout the whole thing.
That's just some minor examples too. Alan Moore is an obsessive madman genius.
I like reading Rorschach with a Reddit debate bro kinda voice. They shouldn't have given him a cool voice. Zack Snyder fucked a bunch up. Theres also the details in the panels that would be hard to do on a moving format
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Watchmen could have been amazing with a better director
as the status quo gets worse and worse, the appeal of some doofs in tights trying to "uphold" it without helping working people gets dumber and dumber
Watchmen as a comic was written specifically to be a comic. It would need a massive rewrite to work as a film. Otherwise the impact is muddled. I can elaborate on that sometime if anyone cares
For real, I feel like people who think it can be filmed haven't read the comic, which they should do and it takes like a few hours tops. You can for sure do the overall story as a movie but the way it's formatted really tells half the story, it was meticulously designed to work as a comic and really can't be altered from that medium without losing a lot
Yeah, in pretentious terms it's ergodic, like the book Pale Fire. It's structured for the reader's ability to flip back and forth between pages, consult previous issues, and overall not be limited by a linear perception of the story's events. Also things like the speech bubbles. Rorschach has jagged, malformed bubbles in the present which the reader could interpret as his mask or a scratchy voice. But then the scenes in the 60s show Rorschach with normal speech bubbles, then he has normal ones again when not wearing his mask. I don't know how that particular aspect could be shown in a film. The 2009 movie just had him do a throaty Batman voice throughout the whole thing.
That's just some minor examples too. Alan Moore is an obsessive madman genius.
I like reading Rorschach with a Reddit debate bro kinda voice. They shouldn't have given him a cool voice. Zack Snyder fucked a bunch up. Theres also the details in the panels that would be hard to do on a moving format
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The extended version/director's cut of watchmen was good. But I agree, could have been amazing, didnt2 live to it's full potential.