Should've been done thirty-five minutes ago ... *ba-dum-tish!*
My mouse scroller thing is stuffing around again. Ugh. Add that to my phone, which has gone completely bonkers, and my headphones, which keep breaking. Technology doesn't like me.
Anyway! Watchmen. :D
( Watchmen discussion - spoilers for both graphic novel and film. )
Anyway! Watchmen. :D
( Watchmen discussion - spoilers for both graphic novel and film. )
That's actually a really profound way of looking at the topic, through the use of sound, and I hadn't actually consciously considered it. That's what makes the comic ending so affecting, having so much death and devastation happen in those panels and having no sound to kind of distract you from it. You get the full force of it all. You're absolutely right - an ending like that would have lost its impact in a cinema full of people.
True. I guess it just gets to me because I love thinking of Rorschach and Dan back in their kickarse crime fighting days, before the Roche case completely messed Rorschach up (and I know there never really was any indication that they were ever really close friends, but in my head I just see them being awesome together and actually caring about each other >.>;;), so when I think about Dan not being there when he dies ... guh. >.< This is what happens when personal canon collides with actual canon, I guess.
But you actually raised an interesting point. I've been thinking of things from a 'film before book' perspective. I've always wondered how events would've been taken if I went the proper 'book before film' way. I'm curious now. Anything that really stood out to you that I can pick your brains about? 8D It's cool if you don't want to.
Rofl, dude, you can go on all you want. I adore making book to film comparisons, and reading other peoples, and discussing them (although I rarely have anything interesting to say) ... xD Fun times.
Thanks for the comment! I love the times where I can talk these sorts of things out with other fans. 8D <333
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I once read a camera movement breakdown of one of the scenes in The Dark Knight and I got all pissed 'cause they guy pointed out two reasons for a circling movement but failed to recognize the obvious. Fuffufufufuu.
Citing the "sound factor" is about the only way I can describe to fans how it works and have them understand, including myself. I liked the movie ending for the movie, but I couldn't figure out why it couldn't have worked for the book until I figured that out. Once you get it figured out, it makes a hella lot of sense.
Hmmm. Going from book to movie, there wasn't much I would change, actually. They did a great job in keeping almost everything. I did hate that they didn't show Hollis's death scene, though, since he just kind of becomes a loose end and that's something no movie wants.
So yeah. :>
Omg I love talking about movies. I'm such a neeeerrrrrddd. xD
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That's the good thing about reading those kinds of breakdowns and articles, though - you can find things to call them out on. xD
I'm very much with you regarding Hollis's death. I was sitting there at the end of the film wondering, did he die in the bombs, or did something else happen to him? But in one of the B-Rolls you see them filming the scene where Dan beats up the knot-top who tells him about Hollis's death ... so it might still turn up on the DVD/s somewhere. Hopefully.
Talking about movies is just so much fun. So many different interpretations and opinions to consider. =D
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