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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Who Watches the Watchmen?
I saw 'Watchmen'. Enjoyed some of it, and was lulled to sleep by others. Zack Snider did a 'paint by numbers' approach to this film. Use of secondary colors for tone of movie as done in novel? Check. Panel by panel accuracy with the graphic novel as the scenes in the movie progress? Check. A bigger and more blue penis than the book? Check. Failing to make a statement as an auteur of modern cinema and as a thinking person interpreting a classic piece of modern literature? Priceless.
Watchmen could clearly have used a daring screenwriter who would go for the jugular and say fuck off to the fan boys of comic book shops and make a good 'movie' for filmophiles.
Zack Snider is clearly a skilled director and has a lot of chops when it comes to making a film. That's why he wants Watchmen virgins to remain Watchmen virgins before the see the film. Like any good performer, he doesn't want to reveal the source of his material. And boy was he faithful to the comic. Too faithful. If the squid and the island and the psychological profiler's relationship with his wife can be omitted, why not go full tilt and make a movie that is relevant and resonant to our time.
Bring the movie into the fucking twenty first century. Go for the jugular. George H.W. Bush is still president, we are still in operation Desert Shield/Storm and the Nuclear threat is a unified extremely radical faction of Islam with the Hussein Family of Iraq, The Prime minister of Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, North Korea, China and Pakistan takes the place of the Soviet Nuclear threat.
Transpose the novel to our time and it would have a more potent and virulent film. Would it rile the vile up in comic fans? Sure. but who cares? Art, is supposed to anger. I've yet to see someone protest a work of 'paint by numbers'.
Watchmen could clearly have used a daring screenwriter who would go for the jugular and say fuck off to the fan boys of comic book shops and make a good 'movie' for filmophiles.
Zack Snider is clearly a skilled director and has a lot of chops when it comes to making a film. That's why he wants Watchmen virgins to remain Watchmen virgins before the see the film. Like any good performer, he doesn't want to reveal the source of his material. And boy was he faithful to the comic. Too faithful. If the squid and the island and the psychological profiler's relationship with his wife can be omitted, why not go full tilt and make a movie that is relevant and resonant to our time.
Bring the movie into the fucking twenty first century. Go for the jugular. George H.W. Bush is still president, we are still in operation Desert Shield/Storm and the Nuclear threat is a unified extremely radical faction of Islam with the Hussein Family of Iraq, The Prime minister of Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, North Korea, China and Pakistan takes the place of the Soviet Nuclear threat.
Transpose the novel to our time and it would have a more potent and virulent film. Would it rile the vile up in comic fans? Sure. but who cares? Art, is supposed to anger. I've yet to see someone protest a work of 'paint by numbers'.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
about comics
I love comics. I've been reading them all my life. The favorite part of the Sunday paper for me as a child was the comics section. I loved the art, the stories and the liberty to which the medium lends itself. From Mandrake the magician to Allison Clay, from the uncanny X-men to the Justice League, throughout my life, I have often looked to comics to escape from the real world to a fantasy land of sorts. One of the best thing about comics is its immediacy as an escapist platform. With books, you must know the language of the book you are reading, with video games and visual media, you need a monitor to view the video on and a machine to broadcast or host the entertainment. Comics requires no such ammenities, it is immediate. Just open the page and start reading. The critical difference between comics and books however is the pictures, the drawings, and some would use that difference to dismiss comics as a credible art form. For those of us who appreciate the format however, we kn0w the pictures are not just for illustrative purposes, for in the hands of a master artist, emotion and subtleties that can scarcely be addressed by words, are discretely and profoundly expressed in one comic book frame and or panel. It is my hope to point out these idiosyncrasies of the marriage of artists snd writer in the medium of comics with this blog. In the posts to come, I will attempt to analyze and criticize my favorite comic book stories and how they relate to their creators and authors.
For now, Here is a brief slideshow of comics in my collection that I have photographed with a Samsung Blackjack II P.D.A. with a 2 megapixel camera and a Samsung Duo Cam SC-D6550 NTSC
For now, Here is a brief slideshow of comics in my collection that I have photographed with a Samsung Blackjack II P.D.A. with a 2 megapixel camera and a Samsung Duo Cam SC-D6550 NTSC
Sunday, February 22, 2009
CELEBRATION
Wus up? I jus gotta celebrate. I read all the comics in my backlog. New Krypton,
Spawn, (there's a new spawn out and he's kick ass), Trinity (exemplary story telling by Kurt Busiek, can't wait to see where that series goes), batman, Avengers. If you collect and read comics, then you can probably relate. Sometimes you can have a backlog of up to 100 comics to read. Well I just read them all! Wow! I feel absolutely venerated. I'm gonna go out and get myself something to eat.
Spawn, (there's a new spawn out and he's kick ass), Trinity (exemplary story telling by Kurt Busiek, can't wait to see where that series goes), batman, Avengers. If you collect and read comics, then you can probably relate. Sometimes you can have a backlog of up to 100 comics to read. Well I just read them all! Wow! I feel absolutely venerated. I'm gonna go out and get myself something to eat.
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