JFerio Wrote:I do believe that was part of the point of it. It took a long, hard look at things that comics before that point hadn't dwelled upon regarding the realism of their worlds.Thats part of what deconstruction really means, IMO. Break a story down to its base components and take a hard look at all of them.
On the subject of book vs movie... there is one big hole in the 'reconstructed plot' of Veidt... Framing Manhattan as the villian requires Manhattan to maintain a presence of some sort so that people continue to fear him/his works in order to remain banded together against him. In this reguard the book's mysterious extradimensional entities worked better IMO
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children