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The Price of Keeping Our Heads Down

timtoner says...

If it was only Chauvin, I agree, the problem would not be so profound. But it wasn't. It was eight other cops who looked away. We need to know that the watchmen will watch the watchmen. Patently, they don't. Until they do, the one rotten apple will make the barrel rot.

Jesusismypilot said:

That's not what putting your head down means. And Floyd wasn't murdered by police, he was murdered by Chauvin. It's too bad that working hard is so disparaged now.

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Watchmen Series Trailer

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The Problem With DC's Heroes in Movies and TV

Mordhaus says...

He is a bit off about the Nolan batman, which I felt was highly focused, and dead wrong about Batman killing people. There have been quite a few arcs in the comics about a Batman who killed people due to certain circumstances.

He is correct that most of the DC directors just seem to ignore the everything except the most basic memes about the heroes. I can also sum up DC's failures in two words: Zach Snyder. The man simply doesn't know how to make a functional superhero movie (yes, that includes Watchmen, which I liked but was underwhelming compared to the source material).

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dannym3141 says...

"Transparency is in the eye of the beholder."

It's scary that he would say that, because it's blatant double-speak from empowered people who are supposed to protect us. We should be more scared that the media representatives who were present didn't collectively take him to task on it. We should be even more scared that democratically elected representatives give their passive consent.

Who watches the watchmen?

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Watchmen - Adapting The Unadaptable

Jinx says...

I enjoyed the movie. I read the book first, but only because I saw the trailers and wanted to see the movie, but I was advised to go to the source first. Perhaps because it was all fresh to me etc, that when I saw Zac's "moment montage" I was able to fill in the gaps.

I guess it depends on your definition of adaption. I feel that implicit in adaption is transformation or evolution. The story is in the telling no? Can you cut the story out, leaving behind all context, and still call it "Watchmen"?

The homage to Batman's suit is perhaps not literally true to the source material, but I think in some ways it is kind of true to the spirit of it. Here's Watchman, the graphic novel, was playing with our preconceptions of what makes a superhero comic book. Perhaps Snyder's intention was to use motifs of superhero movies in the same way Watchmen used preconceptions of its medium. maybe.

Mordhaus said:

I disagree that it cannot be adapted to film. It could be done with a director that can function in a storytelling environment, which Snyder simply cannot do. The problem with Snyder was covered very well here recently, *related=http://videosift.com/video/Nerdwriter-Fundamenal-Flaw-Zack-Snyder-Batman-v-Superman
He was exactly the wrong director to have film this. I would have went with Del Toro or Whedon, but even they have their flaws.

Now, if the question is, can an adaptation be done that Alan Moore will feel 'suits' his vision? Probably not. He is an artist, in very good ways, but also in some very bad ones. He has a specific idea of how his creation must flow, which means he will never be satisfied with a medium outside of the graphic novel or comic.

Personally, I think one of the few un-adaptable works would be Gaiman's Sandman, but that's just my opinion.

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