Comments on: Watchmen: The City is Afraid of Me. I’ve Seen It’s Face.

By: crisper

crisper — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:08:49 +0000

In reply to jorm.

I think the whole point of a great Story is that it can work no matter who or where or how it's being told. Details are unimportant; or rather, they are super important, but can be tailored for the medium the Story is in.

By: tague

tague — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:42:18 +0000

Dextromethorphan, Xanax, Dissocative hallucinations, and a ginormous blue penis sound like the makings of your great american novel.

By: jorm

jorm — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:04:25 +0000

In reply to crisper.

Hrm. Is there anything that you, personally, have written that you don't believe could survive the trip to the screen?

I ask because I can think of a couple things I have done which I think gain their power from someplace other than visualization. But I've never done comics, so having actual "visuals" has never been an issue one way or the other.

I do not believe that the Story disappears when changing media, personally. I think it changes, perhaps.

There are some books that I think are done better as films (The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club), and then there are books that would have been so very easy to get right and instead somehow got put into a blender (The Sci-Fi channel's A Wizard of Earthsea broke my heart in fifty places).

By: crisper

crisper — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:09:00 +0000

>Sadly, there is a depth to the comic that simply cannot be placed on screen.

Which is what Moore always says when asked why he thinks WATCHMEN was, and is, unfilmable. I have to confess, it's something I don't quite get, this idea he seems to hold to, that a Story is inherently tied to its medium of expression, and that moved to a different medium, there is no longer any way that the Story can survive in a way worth doing.

By: subtly_modded

subtly_modded — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:41:14 +0000

I do really wish Hollis Mason's death had made it in. There was a lack of visceral (and I know I'm using that word an awful lot, but it's just so right for this) depth to Dan's situation. I know that fits with how his mask career just sort of fizzled, but still.

I keep starting to write sentences about this and then abandoning them. Still not yet coherent in my ability to respond.

also - *big, squishy hug*

By: evilheff

evilheff — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:35:59 +0000

I expected them to lose black freighter, under the hood et al, and R's psychiatrist but rumours persist of a feature-super-heavy DVD/bluray with all of that jazz present. losing hollis masons death is a little weird to me, but when you're trimming a book which could easily be made into a two-or-three-part super-epic, like LOTR, I guess everylittlebit helps.

Im still apprehensive about changes to the end, whilst the squid hasnt really ages well, it... fits, neatly, like the action figure catalog, and the giant computers, for me, its a flavour thing, now-retro book, needs now-retro ending.

IDK, seeing it tonight.

By: strontium90

strontium90 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:10:02 +0000

Dextromethorphan and Xanax sounds like a nightmare combo to me. I hate medicine :(