Seriously, he didn't.
Rape is the worst thing that can happen to anyone-woman, child, or man. And it happens all too often in real life. The victim is left with nothing and the emotional scars never fully heal. Distrust is created, innocence is lost.
I'm simply trying to clear up confusion about a scene in the film Watchmen. I am in no way defending attempted rapists versus rapists. I am merely stating how the scene literally played on screen. I am not trying to convert anyone to see the movie, just getting the film's facts straight.
Either way attempted or not, rape is the most despicable act another human can inflict on another.
Eddie (the Comedian) walks in on Sally (the original Silk Spectre) while she's changing and tries to seduce her at first. She slaps him and they fight since he wants her willing or no. It's an attempted rape. Eddie is a vicious bastard and has her bent over a pool table but not once does a part of him touch so much as her nipple in the scene. He keeps her pinned to the table while he unfastens his belt. Sure, had Hooded Justice not intervened he would have actually raped her.
However if you want to be angry at Watchmen, be angry at Alan Moore for the fact that the victim eventually has sex with her attacker of her own volition, gets up knocked up, and worst of all falls in love with him. For a while in the book it looks like Sally is raped at a different time by Eddie and the product of that off screen rape is Laurie. Later when Laurie (Silk Spectre 2) finds out that Eddie is her father, it is revealed that Sally consented to having sex with him. The film never uses that device. It is mentioned that Eddie "finishes the job" he started but at the same time it's revealed that Sally willingly had sex with him at that time.
In the end, Laurie tells her mother that it was okay about Eddie being her father.
Bottom line, if you ever see the words Alan Moore attached to a film adaptation know that there will be a rape or an attempted rape. Alan Moore has issues with women. Worst of all, he includes rape situations in his books simply because he can. However those who rape or try it get theirs in the end. Eddie gets thrown through his high rise apartment window. Evie's attacker in V for Vendetta is ruthlessly beaten by V, never gets back up. Mina Harker is raped by the Invisible Man who is a serial rapist; he's torn in half by Mr. Hyde who is very protective of her.
Natually that does not excuse the rape.
I'm simply trying to clear up confusion about a scene in the film Watchmen. I am in no way defending attempted rapists versus rapists. I am merely stating how the scene literally played on screen. I am not trying to convert anyone to see the movie, just getting the film's facts straight.
Either way attempted or not, rape is the most despicable act another human can inflict on another.
Eddie (the Comedian) walks in on Sally (the original Silk Spectre) while she's changing and tries to seduce her at first. She slaps him and they fight since he wants her willing or no. It's an attempted rape. Eddie is a vicious bastard and has her bent over a pool table but not once does a part of him touch so much as her nipple in the scene. He keeps her pinned to the table while he unfastens his belt. Sure, had Hooded Justice not intervened he would have actually raped her.
However if you want to be angry at Watchmen, be angry at Alan Moore for the fact that the victim eventually has sex with her attacker of her own volition, gets up knocked up, and worst of all falls in love with him. For a while in the book it looks like Sally is raped at a different time by Eddie and the product of that off screen rape is Laurie. Later when Laurie (Silk Spectre 2) finds out that Eddie is her father, it is revealed that Sally consented to having sex with him. The film never uses that device. It is mentioned that Eddie "finishes the job" he started but at the same time it's revealed that Sally willingly had sex with him at that time.
In the end, Laurie tells her mother that it was okay about Eddie being her father.
Bottom line, if you ever see the words Alan Moore attached to a film adaptation know that there will be a rape or an attempted rape. Alan Moore has issues with women. Worst of all, he includes rape situations in his books simply because he can. However those who rape or try it get theirs in the end. Eddie gets thrown through his high rise apartment window. Evie's attacker in V for Vendetta is ruthlessly beaten by V, never gets back up. Mina Harker is raped by the Invisible Man who is a serial rapist; he's torn in half by Mr. Hyde who is very protective of her.
Natually that does not excuse the rape.