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Posted by Tengu on 13-04-2008 at 20:13:

The Watchmen

http://www.superherohype.com/news/watchmennews.php?id=7032

The Watchmen

Greatest Graphic Novel Ever

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Posted by Metaliant on 13-04-2008 at 21:27:

could you please expand on The Watchmen and looking at the photos of the charactors, a Watchwoman as well as I only have heard of them recently?

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Posted by Tengu on 14-04-2008 at 07:58:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen#Reception

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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 14-04-2008 at 17:01:

Oh cool!

I'm not into graphic novels in general, but Hubby borrowed that one and I couldn't put it down.

I hope they get the rhythm right, between the newspaper and the sub-story and the panels and the plot. That was amazing.

I can see a lot of ways they can screw it up, though. So much of the novel was subtle, at least to someone who's used to getting info from text.

Fingers crossed.

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Posted by Metaliant on 14-04-2008 at 19:47:

quote:

Originally posted by Tengu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen#Reception

Thanks Tengu and I also found a link which is about the movie and read down and found Alan's Moore response to the move. I have copied and pasted it below.

In an interview with Variety's Danny Graydon during Warner Bros.'s first possession of feature film rights for Watchmen, the graphic novel's writer Alan Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, "You get people saying, 'Oh, yes, Watchmen is very cinematic,' when actually it's not. It's almost the exact opposite of cinematic." Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. Moore told Graydon about his response, "I had to tell him that, frankly, I didn't think it was filmable. I didn't design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn't."[23]

Moore also told Entertainment Weekly in December 2001, "With a comic, you can take as much time as you want in absorbing that background detail, noticing little things that we might have planted there. You can also flip back a few pages relatively easily to see where a certain image connects with a line of dialogue from a few pages ago. But in a film, by the nature of the medium, you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second."[66] Moore had opposed the adaptation of Watchmen from the beginning, intending to give any resulting film royalties to Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons.[25] According to Moore, David Hayter's script "was as close as [he] could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen." However, Moore added, "I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way: in an armchair, nice and cozy next to a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee."[25]

In an early interview with Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker, Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons said that he thought the time had passed to make a Watchmen movie. At the time, Darren Aronofsky was expressing interest in directing the film under Paramount Pictures. Nevertheless, Gibbons said, "It was most likely to happen when Batman was a big success, but then that window was lost." Gibbons also told Neon, "In a way, I'm glad because it wouldn't have been up to the book.

Apparently Terry Gillian left production because he felt that the comic book could be filmed.

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Posted by Tengu on 14-04-2008 at 20:23:

Its unfilmable, take it from me.

(says she who read it once 12 years ago)

And its 20 years old, set in the cold war, I fear the moment has been lost.

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