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When they announced the different story (away from supervillains controlling the world) I wasn't up in arms like a chicken little fanboy. I was willing to give it a chance. After all, the fantastic sci-fi story did sort of cater more to comic book fans than a general movie audience. But I was shocked to find out that their new interpretation was a flipping weavers guild with a loom of fate. Huh???? And now the assassin guild's mission is to prevent chaos through nothing more than faith in a thousand year old sheep weaving device? Okayyyy. Yeah, that's a much more believable and workable premise.
Now watching the Blu-Ray and the extras included on the making of the film, you can tell that the director wasn't happy with the way the screenwriters changed the story as well. Watch the portion on converting the graphic novel to the movie, and he'll even admit, that they felt the script was off, and they actually had to go back to the original graphic novel to capture what they were looking for. They even threw out parts of the script and brought in original lines from the graphic novel when they felt the story wasn't working.
Then I watch the deleted opening sequence that explains more about this "mystic loom" and frankly, I think they should have left that scene in because now we have a 1/2 movie. 1/2 of it is faithful to Millar's vision, 1/2 of it is faithful to this more tame vision from the movie scriptwriters. They should have kept the deleted opening with an assassin killing a king 1,000 years ago because it better explained this new storyline.
To sum it up, while I thought the movie was entertaining, I don't think would have had any problems if they had remained completely faithful to the original comic book storyline. The director even admits its one of the few comics he has read that runs like a movie storyboard sequence. I could see them taking out the hardcore rampant pointless violence because it makes you lose empathy for Wesley, Fox and others, but them keeping his last lines intact where talks to the camera just like the graphic novel again goes back to just being about a hardcore thrill ride where one person realizes that he should live life to the fullest, morals or no morals.
I feel like this movie was confused and couldn't decide if it was going to be more true to the extreme Millar version, or stay more true to the streamlined Hollywood version.
Now watching the Blu-Ray and the extras included on the making of the film, you can tell that the director wasn't happy with the way the screenwriters changed the story as well. Watch the portion on converting the graphic novel to the movie, and he'll even admit, that they felt the script was off, and they actually had to go back to the original graphic novel to capture what they were looking for. They even threw out parts of the script and brought in original lines from the graphic novel when they felt the story wasn't working.
Then I watch the deleted opening sequence that explains more about this "mystic loom" and frankly, I think they should have left that scene in because now we have a 1/2 movie. 1/2 of it is faithful to Millar's vision, 1/2 of it is faithful to this more tame vision from the movie scriptwriters. They should have kept the deleted opening with an assassin killing a king 1,000 years ago because it better explained this new storyline.
To sum it up, while I thought the movie was entertaining, I don't think would have had any problems if they had remained completely faithful to the original comic book storyline. The director even admits its one of the few comics he has read that runs like a movie storyboard sequence. I could see them taking out the hardcore rampant pointless violence because it makes you lose empathy for Wesley, Fox and others, but them keeping his last lines intact where talks to the camera just like the graphic novel again goes back to just being about a hardcore thrill ride where one person realizes that he should live life to the fullest, morals or no morals.
I feel like this movie was confused and couldn't decide if it was going to be more true to the extreme Millar version, or stay more true to the streamlined Hollywood version.
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