Feb 20 2008New 'Watchmen' Image: Disfiguring Burns
Last month, Watchmen director gave some comic frame-to-storyboard comparisons to show how similar his vision was to the original comic. Now, on the official blog, Snyzer has offered up a final shot from that sequence from the film. It's like watching a child grow up from birth to adulthood, only the child is constantly burning people with a match and an aerosol can.
That's a wrap! [Official Blog]
Reader Comments
1. GC - February 20, 2008 12:56 PM
I came
2. Scooby - February 20, 2008 2:42 PM
I'm sorry I didn't like the book.
3. blah - February 20, 2008 3:13 PM
i'll be there on opening day, but if this movie sucks, i'm done with anything comic adapted..forever. if you can't even make a great story like watchmen decent, then there's no hope for anything ever getting a good adaptation. (is alan moore even involved with this project at all?)
4. Bobeyo - February 21, 2008 9:16 AM
Well, #3, considering the almost religious devotion to detail that directors seem to show Alan Moore and Frank Miller, replicating their comics frame by frame, I'm thinking you'll probably like it. Me, I find it disgusting that comic books get so much respect from filmmakers, while novel adaptations end up with a ridiculously butchered storyline so that they are almost unrecognizable.
5. blah - February 21, 2008 7:54 PM
I don't know about that. Sin city and 300 seemed to be the only adaptations that were frame for frame. Honestly though, they were both pretty boring. Those stories were more about their art style then the plots, which really aren't thematically all that deep. on the other hand, alan moores works are often intensely researched and contain layers with in layers and always end up as crap on screen. for instance, look at from hell. the graphic novel is filled with notes and research on jack the ripper, as well as various talk of symbolism in early london..the film is a cheesy thriller starring johnny depp that has little to do with the book, except for the identity of the killer. league of extraordinary gentleman was a great book about literary characters interacting while solving a greater mystery..the film is an action movie starring sean connery. look at V for vendetta. this one was so close..but then it too devolved into being about the flashy action sequences rather then a dystopian hero and his dismantling of an Orwellian government and just a statement on fascism on the whole. ..do you see where this trend is going?
is it any wonder this guy hates hollywood?
6. Pat - February 21, 2008 7:57 PM
#2, there are two excuses for not liking Watchmen:
a) You don't know very much about superhero/comic book history
b) You don't know very much about American history
Both of the above reflect more on you than on Moore's book.
#4: No one has shown any devotion to detail when adapting Alan Moore's books. LXG was an embarrassment (given, it was hard to adapt, but that's no excuse for the ugly travesty that is the LXG movie) and V For Vendetta was butchered. A lot of people liked it, but I thought it failed both as a film and as a comic adaptation.
Comics get respect because they're shorter and easier to adapt than novels. A comic is a storyboard. A lot of thought and careful editing has to go into making a good novel adaptation, and some of the best films based on books are the ones that changed the most (a lot of Hitchcock's films come to mind, as well as Cronenberg's adaptation of Naked Lunch and Welles's adaptation of The Trial).
7. Pat - February 21, 2008 7:59 PM
Oh P.S. I came too. Rorschach is the shit.
There's no way the film will be as good as the book (the pirate comic bit would be almost impossible to do and it's one of the best bits in the book), but as long as it's enjoyable and keeps the spirit and themes of the novel - something V For Vendetta fell far short on - it'll be nice to have both.