Watchmen: The real Laurie / Silk Spectre
http://hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com/2009/03/stop-hating-on-laurie-juspeczyk-female.html
does an excellent job of explaining why Laurie is a strong and interesting character in the comic, and in the process demonstrates just how badly the movie treated her. This just adds to my feeling that the deep flaws in the movie had nothing to do with big changes, subplots cut, or even the use of exact dialog/narration/visual quotes. The flaws were all in the relentless omission or smoothing over of the fine details that linked things together and gave the book its true depth. And Moore's right- you really can't film that. Certainly not in a just under 3 hour movie.
does an excellent job of explaining why Laurie is a strong and interesting character in the comic, and in the process demonstrates just how badly the movie treated her. This just adds to my feeling that the deep flaws in the movie had nothing to do with big changes, subplots cut, or even the use of exact dialog/narration/visual quotes. The flaws were all in the relentless omission or smoothing over of the fine details that linked things together and gave the book its true depth. And Moore's right- you really can't film that. Certainly not in a just under 3 hour movie.