"3 Hour Advertisement"

[JDym]

Do you agree or disagree with Snyder's assessment that the movie should be a "3 hour advertisement" for the Graphic Novel?

I certainly believe so. Although I think believe people would be better off having read the GN first, I have no problem with the movie serving as a vehicle for people to pick up "Watchmen".

Thoughts?

 

[Agentsands77]

Do you agree or disagree with Snyder's assessment that the movie should be a "3 hour advertisement" for the Graphic Novel?

I rather strongly disagree, thinking that the movie should stand on its own in some way. An adaptation doesn't exist to just point to the original, it exists to adapt it in a new way so that it becomes something new. If all Snyder's WATCHMEN is is an advertisement for Moore's comic, I might as well not bother. The point is experiencing something I haven't experienced before.

That said, I do think WATCHMEN will stand apart from its source enough, and if you look at other interviews, Snyder understands that as well. This was just an off-hand comment about how it wants to be faithful to the intent of the graphic novel, which is fair.

 

[Cth]

Millar's of the same opinion, sort of:

Yeah. I've spent the last two days doing 29 interviews (most by phone, though a crew from Universal here all day yesterday) for the Wanted DVD coming out. And so many journos asked if they felt the Hwood interest was bad for comic-books. But I never understand this head. In an industry where we can't afford one page ads outside our own companies, Hwood affords us 100 million dollar commercials for our books. The Wanted trade sold an extra 150,000 copies in the book stores alone in the quarter the movie came out.

As long as the work is good, people will keep coming back and in that sense Hollywood is the best thing to ever happen to comics. And it gives the creators the cash to get a little freedom too. In the bad old days, the companies made the money from movie and game adaptations, but this all goes to the writers and artists now. This gives them the money they need to create MORE new books and also sets them up for old age. Like Chuck Dixon said a couple of weeks back, comics is the only industry that needed a charity to look after ex employees. There's no pension plan in this business, but Hwood just gave us one.

MM

And I agree, I don't want a panel for panel adaptation of any comic property. I view the films as "What If/Elseworlds".. I'd like something inspired by the comic with enough of the essence, but I'm ok with changes.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Didn't Snyder say that he hopes it would be an advertisement for the book only if the movie failed? Like, "Eh, well the movie sucked. But maybe i should go out and get the book."?

If that's the case yea, if not, eh, i'm not too bothered by it. But i'm quite certain that Snyder's added enough of his own style to the adaptation so that it won't be a panel for panel bore-fest.

 

[jackjack924]

I want him to be faithful, but I don't want a panel by panel movie. I think what he means is that yes, he will make the movie as close to the book as possible but it will still be missing elements/taking liberties. If you want the full Watchmen experience, you have to read the book and that's what he means, he wants to inspire people to enjoy the movie but also enjoy the book by which it is based.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Do you agree or disagree with Snyder's assessment that the movie should be a "3 hour advertisement" for the Graphic Novel?

I certainly believe so. Although I think believe people would be better off having read the GN first, I have no problem with the movie serving as a vehicle for people to pick up "Watchmen".

Thoughts?

1) It should be able to stand on its own

2) It will at least generate interest in the GN, no matter what.

 

[SLVRSR4]

I never imagined Rorschach's voice being pure gravel and sand paper, but feel some of the things they'll draw out like Dr. Manhattan's transformation will be nice to see. In V for Vendetta the explosion was one panel, like Jon's explosion in the intrinsic field. That was about the only thing better in the film, but I still want to see it.

 

[RaZaTrOn]

Just watched Film 2008 with Jonathan Ross he was speaking to the guy who plays Adrian and he said he was on the phone to Snyder and he said the movie was about 3 hours 25 mins and he said that Snyder is presenting to Fox that he's made an Art house movie.. so it seems he's trying to keep that run time.

 

[Project862006]

the shortest i would want it to be would prolly be 2:50

 

[Silk Spectre]

Outlandish!! All this talk of those silly things called books, pffft.