From shh, With the 20th Century Fox lawsuit against Warner Bros. over Zack Snyder's Watchmen still unresolved, the Los Angeles Times' "Hero Complex" blog recently interviewed comic creator and author Alan Moore and got his opinion on the movie that many have felt might finally get one of Moore's stories right. Moore apparently hasn't had his opinion about Hollywood swayed or changed, because he isn't just against the adaption of his graphic novel finally coming to the big screen, but seemingly against movies in general.
In the interview, Moore says that he finds "film in its modern form to be quite bullying," and as far as the much-publicized lawsuit, Moore seems to be thrilled about the legal problems surrounding the film which is due out on March 6, 2009, two months after the trial date that's been set for the case. "Will the film even be coming out? There are these legal problems now, which I find wonderfully ironic. Perhaps it's been cursed from afar, from England, and I can tell you that I will also be spitting venom all over it for months to come."
Then again, Moore has never watched any of the film adaptations of his books, and Zack Snyder probably shouldn't feel too bad that Moore isn't positive or supportive of the hard work he's been putting into making Watchmen faithful to Moore's original work.
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Even Moore must know, at this point, that this isn't any kind of legitimate position. He's being a petulant child, holding his "I don't want to go to the beach; I'll just sit in my room and read a book, you jerks" position as long as he can.
He's happy about the lawsuit? I mean, the only thing I can compare that to is Dan Aykroyd being happy about the demise of the Wired movie in 1988 (and saying, lightheartedly, that he'd "cursed" it). But that was totally different!
Now he's pissed because movies themselves are somehow illegitimate? When he put references to The Day The Earth Stood Still and Casablanca into Watchmen, had somebody told him about those movies (since the art form is apparently too illegitimate for him)? Oh, wait, those are older movies and the art form has only "become" illegitimate.
At this point he can't embrace the movie without reversing all his lofty rhetoric, so he won't. (Again, like a petulant child.) What a strange guy.
"At this point he can't embrace the movie without reversing all his lofty rhetoric, so he won't."
Yep, cognitive dissonance alive and well.
Totally agree Jpx. I was going to try to write something similar but you hit it. He's a little full of himself and yet then again, his points about hollywood aren't untrue either. Hollywood is full of bullying.
On one hand he's got a point about the translation of graphic novels into movies: not just the fact that the material often gets tee-rashed (League of Extraordinary Crapplemen), but that there are specific elements to the art form that he's explored and developed like nobody else and thinking you can turn that into a movie and not lose something is wrong.
On the other hand, lighten the fuck UP, you gloomy bastard!
Couldn't have put it better myself octo.
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