film is very yellow and violent-even more violent than the original. The classification is three-level film (the United States is also R-level). This of course limits its audience. But it is very exciting, the classic scenes in the original work have appeared, and it is very cool. Be sure to watch the IMAX uncut version.
The film is extremely faithful to the original manga-except for the end, this will be discussed later. The loyalty mentioned here not only means that it has inherited the mirror-to-mirror copying of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors", but it is also completely the same with the atmosphere of the 1980s and the Cold War mentality.
I would like to remind you: if you haven't read the original comics, don't read it. This includes people who like X-Men, Batman and other comics. If you think you like comic hero movies, but you haven't seen the original "Watchmen", don't watch it either.
Otherwise, you don’t understand when you read it.
I'm not the original party, I can agree with adaptations like Transformers, but this movie is different, and it is really impossible to understand without looking at the original.
Starting with the LOGO that has never opened, the film has been fully thought-out, with the same yellow and black color and font as the original cover, and firmly grasping the psychology of residential male fans.
The opening is the death of Laughing Blacksmith. The fighting in this scene is much more exciting than in the book, and it can be seen that Black is indeed still young, and the level of violence is particularly high-don't worry, this is just a warm-up, and it is just a pediatrics compared to the more violent places in the back.
In fact, the film provides a little more explanation of the background than the comics. At least Kissinger, who is familiar to the Chinese people, appeared on the scene. The comics are also extra-text reasons. Reagan was in power when Alan Moore was creating. He didn't want Reagan fans to feel that the work vilified their idols, so they didn't need to pay for the book, so he carried Nixon out-the impeached Nixon wanted to come. There won't be many fans. But Nixon was in the 1970s, and he was not right at this time, so he was re-elected for four terms-by the way, I can also emphasize that Ya is a great dictator, who can kill two birds with one stone.
How can you give the movie time to explain all of these things?
The film thought of a way to explain the background, which is to pull the main background from the 1940s to the 1980s in the story in the opening song. It must be said that this opening song is done very well! Accompanied by Bob Dylan’s famous song "The times they are a-changin'", it tells the story of the "militia" team from heroes that everyone admired to being murdered, imprisoned in mental hospitals, and masked heroes. The government issued a ban...These background events were mixed with historical events, and even matched the lyrics just right!
(It’s a coincidence that I have been humming this song before I watched the movie, although I didn’t know it would appear in the movie before—you can imagine how surprised I was at that time!)
However, I didn’t do my homework beforehand. Students, it is easy to miss the meaning of this series of backgrounds.
Back to the film-from then on did I copy the original without changing the lens.
Later, Rorschach made an investigation, and it was actually cooler than the original, especially Rorschach's ink mask became dynamic, very GEEK-but even though it is dynamic, it is difficult to judge whether different inks represent different expressions.
Witte feels a little bit motherly, not like the number one man in the world who is strategizing and winning thousands of miles away, just like a willful awkwardness. It directly affects how he feels after the plot.
Manhattan is very standard-yes I use the word "standard". This character is the most inscribed character, but it is also the most difficult to express, because he does not have the joys, sorrows and sorrows of a mortal, but must act out his sense of alienation from the human world. Since there is no expression and no change in intonation, he needs to perform completely in body language-in fact, this is quite good. If you don't consider that 80% of the time in the film, he walks around with his blue penis exposed. Outside.
(The scene of Manhattan in Vietnam is very cool, but people who don’t know the original will definitely think what this TM is about.)
Ye Xiao is the most humane and the most pleasing, and his battle uniform is better than the original, it doesn’t look so fat-in fact, besides Rorschach’s ink mask, Ye Xiao’s uniform is the only movie that looks better than the original. The uniforms of Witte and Silk are both terrible. Of course, Silk Ling is not only in the uniform. The movie version of Silk Ling is not cute at all, but it can fight a lot-the fight in the dark alley is good X bloody!
And there is an important difference in the dark lane. Ye Xiao and Silk Ling do not kill people as in the original work, but do not take the initiative to kill people-they are not completely moral and clean. In this way, they finally agree to accept reality and cover up the truth. persuasive.
The scene of H in the spaceship is a bit too long, although I don't mind. However, it can be seen that the director wants to "it is R grade anyway, it is better to make good use of it".
Rorschach's scene in prison was great! Totally badass!
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The biggest change from the original film is at the end. In the original work, Werther created a monster to kill half of the people in New York, and then falsely claimed that it was an alien monster invasion, which prompted the United States and the Soviet Union to cease war and join forces; the film changed it to Werther’s presence in many cities around the world (including New York, Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong, etc.) caused a nuclear explosion, and then pushed to the head of Dr. Manhattan, saying that Manhattan has decided to be an enemy of mankind (people had questioned Manhattan before, which was a pavement), and let the United States and the Soviet Union strike out and fight Manhattan together. .
Therefore, loyal fans of the original work also have different opinions on the changes in the ending. I prefer the way the movie is handled. After all, alien monsters? Who would believe such nonsense? It is more credible to give them a visible and real threat, and Manhattan is willing to cooperate anyway.
Another difference is that in the original work, except for Rorschach, everyone else agreed to keep Witte secret. In the film, Ye Xiao and Silk Ling appear to have reservations, which actually left hidden dangers for Werther’s plan; of course Werther believes that they will not say it and it is unknown, but in the end they did not even change their names like comics. , Could it be considered that Werther was hit hard enough by Manhattan and ignored them?
In short, the film is good, and the changes are understandable. After all, for audiences in the 21st century, it takes a lot of courage to shoot a film that strictly follows the views of the 1980s. As the opening song sings: The world has changed.
The world has changed, do you want to change?
The reaction to this film was very polarized. Those who liked it said it was very good, while others said it was useless. The US box office has plummeted by 70% since the first week.
This response is very reasonable. Fans of the original work rushed to see it at the first time, and it won't be delayed until the second week; non-fans thought they would see a comic movie where the hero defeated the enemy, and when they found out that they were wrong, they would naturally curse it.
This reflects the problem of the film: although it is very good, it is too niche, and it is not even as friendly to the audience as "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors". This movie is not like Spider-Man and Iron Man. They choose not to choose a comic to be adapted, but to choose a character to tell their story (just a faithful comic setting), so even people who haven’t read the comic can watch it. Very HIGH; and "Watchmen" is different, this film is a faithful copy of the original book, and the original itself is a work that can't be understood without seeing it many times.
However, you can't ask the audience who didn't understand the movie to watch it again.
So people who have seen the original can appreciate the interest of every detail, but for those who have not seen it, these are just meaningless piles. Fans understand this film because the background that needs to be explained is already familiar to them. They understand the personality of the characters and why they act like this; but non-fans have no way to complete it in their brains.
Now, people will understand how correct the original author Alan Moore is: this work cannot be adapted into a movie.
Even if it was a great adaptation, it's the same.
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