Whether in comics or mainstream culture, the "Watchmen" comics have always been regarded as classics in the classics, and they have been ranked among the 100 best English novels of "Time" in a century-you know this is especially discriminatory to comics. The list of pure literature!
This film was born in 1986, and is titled by Uvinalis’ verse "Who is going to watch the watchman". Under the background of Reagan’s Cold War fears, it puts mankind’s despair of society, self-reflection, and suspicion of heroism. All the comics eaten have created a hero, villain and anti-hero eschatological legend that is different from all previous comic universes. I believe comic readers will not doubt that "Watchmen" has indeed changed the entire comic industry.
Alan Moore, who was enshrined by "Watchmen", is even more interesting than the book. He is also a cartoonist, novelist, composer and mystic. He has "V for Vendetta" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Close to the body, I never disdain the capitalist market’s admiration for his comics, and look down upon those like "Watchmen" and "Doomsday Bells". Even in the face of the boss, DC Comics, he has to show his identity as a stickman. To curse the entire DC universe. (Look how terribly cursed DECU is!)
Hollywood is naturally not Alan Moore’s dish, especially after he has repeatedly emphasized "V for Vendetta" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" movies that are not satisfied at all. When Terry Gilliam, director of "The Anaconda Troupe", approached Alan Moore to talk about the film adaptation of "Watchmen", the reply he got was "It will never be made into a movie." Faced with such a good subject, Zach Schneider, who had to use his capital to cook mature rice, forcibly filmed the movie. Even if this movie did not sell well at the box office, it has been criticized many times in the industry for copying the script, which clearly lacks the essence of "Watchmen". In the end, it did not get the opportunity to sign Alan Moore, which does not seem to prevent many fans from being signed. Regarded as "the greatest superhero movie in film history".
Having said so much, I think you should be able to understand why when the HBO project version of "Watchmen" was approved, Alan Moore obviously didn't care about the project. "Watching the Earth" screenwriter Damon Lindelof still took the initiative to provoke it. In the "war of curse", I wrote a five-page long letter to Alan Moore, and to the audience also to myself, explaining how much I admire this comic and how honored I am as a fan to take over this project. I have always treated Alan Moore. Treat him as a dad...Of course Alan Moore still ignored him.
But I think when Alan Moore sees what this younger generation actually shoots, even if he doesn’t admit that he likes it, at least he will appreciate this film in a true sense and develops on his basis. It belongs to this era of "The Watcher". ".
"Watchmen" is based on the background 35 years after the end of the original. After the Pharaoh’s conspiracy succeeded, people’s lives became sunny, but the contradictions in society did not disappear as imagined, and the uneasy emotions fermented in the crowd. Especially the impact on law enforcement order and the recurrence of racial issues. In order to protect privacy and prevent family members from being retaliated, the police put on masks to protect themselves; while wearing Rorschach masks, the racist terrorist organization known as the "Seventh Cavalry Regiment" was looking for opportunities to retaliate against society.
In such a shaky society, the masked hero known as "Dark Night" has been involved in social unrest with the police chief and colleagues because he secretly worked for the police for many years. A grand armed riot is "the bell of the end". "We are approaching step by step.
What everyone does not know on the surface is that behind the turbulent situation, there is hidden the Pharaoh, who is living in seclusion, and is brewing the next conspiracy...
The drama version of "Watchmen" portrays a new year for us in 2019 that is different from what we know well. That year, liberal leader Robert Roford served as president of the United States for thirty years in one breath. The TV shows "American Heroes" featuring the militiamen in the 1980s. Vietnam became a state in the United States, and the pollution of war made the sky. It started raining octopus. Racial discrimination was wiped out ideologically that year, but threats such as the "Roford Act" still squeezed the fate of people of color to the edge. In the comics that year, Rorschach, who only wanted to dedicate her life to justice, became a totem of racist terrorists, but the supposedly upright police put on masks to protect their identity and cover up possible crimes.
These outrageous world views constitute the reality that we are living under. The black western heroes depicted in the beginning of the series are real. The Tulsa genocide, which claimed the lives of hundreds of blacks in 1921, was not groundless. The story uses a large space to show the hatred hidden under the peaceful society, which drives the behavior of the characters. For a generation of viewers living in peaceful times, the focus on racial issues and justice anxiety that still exists today is always more real than the Cold War background. It’s hard for you to talk suspiciously about political correctness and doubt the choice of black women as the protagonist. After all, you can’t think of a casting that fits this theme better.
Just like in the comics, "Watchmen" magnifies the focus of its concerns, and magnifies the tacit understanding into the philosophy of strange things and strange things, allowing the authorities and bystanders to collide with even one answer. What does "Watchmen" want to prove? The screenwriter Lindelof doesn't seem to want to stamp this era with moral corruption, to differentiate between justice and evil in the world, just like "Black Robe Picket" to talk about an anti-hero topic. By obscuring the appearance of the police and criminals, and placing the hero's motif in the rift of the times, perhaps what he wants to talk about in the end is the apocalyptic anxiety that is nowhere to be placed in "Watching the Earth", which is also the intention of Alan Moore. The set in the original book "The Watchers"-the greatest enemy of mankind is still himself, who will keep the Watchers.
As a film and television adaptation of the "Watchmen" comic IP, although you can see that it tried its best to get rid of the influence of the original book and tell a brand new remix story, you can still see a lot of tribute-related elements mixed in without too much effort, for example. Said the news of the death of Pharaoh in the newspapers of passersby,
In a blink of an eye, the Pharaoh played by Uncle Iron Jeremy Irons returned to the audience's field of vision. The smartest person in the "Watchmen" universe is now in exile, surrounded by clone servants as mentioned in the comics.
The "tick tick tick" clock suggests that the end is approaching, silently suggesting his conspiracy ensuing.
For example, although he didn't say it straight, the chief of police who has a drug addiction and is qualified to drive a Ye Xiao fighter might be Ye Xiao himself.
For example, Luo Xiaji's 1985 was used as the secret room password.
For example, in addition to the large-scale Rorschach tribute show by the terrorists, the "eyepieces" of the police masked officers also used methods similar to the Rorschach test when interrogating the prisoner, but used the Rorschach symbol to stimulate the criminal instead of analyzing the Rorschach symbol itself. The interrogation is a bit like a lame tribute.
For example, at the beginning and end of "Watchmen", the blood-splattered laughter symbol is replaced with a blood-splattered police badge.
The story of the drama version of "Watchmen" just opened a small head, you may not know where the story will eventually go. But I think you can at least feel that the accumulated power hidden in every aspect of the production is eager to try, and you will look forward to what kind of answer this Alan Moore fan will take out in order to please the idol. After all, we are not watching another superhero series-we are watching the watchmen .
View more about Watchmen reviews
