Post by gerrard720 on Feb 20, 2009 13:54:47 GMT 1
I know its not football related, but I simply cannot wait for this to arrive on our cinema screens on March 6th this year.
Easily my favourite graphic novel I've read and I just pray Zach Synder has stuck to the underlying message (which the trailer suggests he has) of the film.
Who watches the watchmen?
The masses will find out in three weeks time. If anyone doesn't know the plot, this is a film adaptation of the book "Watchmen" - written by Northampton's very own Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins. This is regarded as the greatest graphic novel ever written and I truly believe I've never read anything quite like it.
You may recall Alan Moore's influenced work before in V for Vendetta although the film took on an overly biased angle towards the "hero" in V. Like I said above, I hope Sydner sticks to the true meaning of the book - the moral battle between the failings in law and order, the doom and gloom subscribers and those who ultimately take vigilantism as a recourse to manage society.
Complicated, deep and delicate as a plot source, the film introduces a group of masked vigilante (everyday humans under their somewhat extravagant capes and costumes) who individually and then collectively decide to put the bad guys away without the patience of waiting for the law to do so themselves.
Add to that the genuine superpower that is Dr. Manhatten, who can construct and deconstruct all matter at a whim, you have the collective group of the watchmen.
But, as Plato summarised in his reflection on social management - Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? - Who Watches The Watchmen?
This will be awesome.
Easily my favourite graphic novel I've read and I just pray Zach Synder has stuck to the underlying message (which the trailer suggests he has) of the film.
Who watches the watchmen?
The masses will find out in three weeks time. If anyone doesn't know the plot, this is a film adaptation of the book "Watchmen" - written by Northampton's very own Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins. This is regarded as the greatest graphic novel ever written and I truly believe I've never read anything quite like it.
You may recall Alan Moore's influenced work before in V for Vendetta although the film took on an overly biased angle towards the "hero" in V. Like I said above, I hope Sydner sticks to the true meaning of the book - the moral battle between the failings in law and order, the doom and gloom subscribers and those who ultimately take vigilantism as a recourse to manage society.
Complicated, deep and delicate as a plot source, the film introduces a group of masked vigilante (everyday humans under their somewhat extravagant capes and costumes) who individually and then collectively decide to put the bad guys away without the patience of waiting for the law to do so themselves.
Add to that the genuine superpower that is Dr. Manhatten, who can construct and deconstruct all matter at a whim, you have the collective group of the watchmen.
But, as Plato summarised in his reflection on social management - Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? - Who Watches The Watchmen?
This will be awesome.