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More News From the Watchmen Movie
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And it's good news. Check out this http://chud.com/articles/articles/15570 ... Page1.html]report on a set visit from Chud.com.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
'If you filmed everything, it's a five hour movie,' said Zack [Snyder]. 'There's
nothing wrong with that - I'd love a five hour movie. It's just not practical. The movie's job is not to replace the book. That's the most important thing. I hope people see the movie and go, 'Gosh, I have to buy Watchmen the graphic novel.'' He gets it! I'm so pleased. Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Would a major motion picture go through with an ending where millions of New Yorkers are killed? And even if they did, would they go with the ending that
Moore wrote, where the 'bad guy' gets away with it? I was absolutely baffled when I read that the studio wanted to change the ending. The ending makes the movie! Ozzy is a (former) hero doing a dastardly deed for the greater good. If he loses at the end, that changes him to mere failed villain. Watchman is set in a "grey" moral universe, and the ending is a great grey ending. Is Ozzy a villain for murdering all those people, or is he a hero who did what needed to be done no matter how distasteful? The fact that you can make valid arguments for both sides is what makes this a great story.  Quote: [i]I hope people see the movie and go, 'Gosh, I have to buy Watchmen the graphic novel.'' [/i]Well, I saw the TRAILER and thought, "Gosh, I have to buy Watchmen the graphic novel." (and did) so mission accomplished. -- If you become a monster to put down a monster you've still got a monster running around at the end of the day and have as such not really solved the whole monster problem at all. 
Incidentally, Alan Moore wants nothing to do with the movie.
In other news, water is wet, fire burns, etc. What makes this all the more ironic is reading a magazine interview today with the director who noted he was previously a member of the group that thought a movie adaptation of Watchmen could not and should not be made that adapted it properly. He only campaigned to make it after seeing that the studio was going to make it anyway(apparently no less than four directors had scripts in consideration by the studio) and that he'd rather do his damndest to try to make a GOOD Watchmen movie than to say it can't be made and watch someone make a total piece of garbage because "Hey, Watchmen iz teh popular". --- "Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay waste."
Trailer looks really good.. concerned about the ending, though..
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies |
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