"300" and "Watchmen", two comics with completely different styles were made into movies, and they truthfully presented two completely different styles. This is the credit of the original author of the comics. This is due to the different styles of the two comic authors. Being able to restore these two styles to a high degree at the same time is really the director's credit. From "300" to "Watchmen", at least it can be seen that Zack Snyder did not add too much "personal understanding" to the film. You can say that the director is uninspired and thoughtless, but I can also It is said that such a director is the most suitable for adapting a beautiful manga, especially a manga with countless fans.
Different from the blood boiling when I watched "300" at the time, "Watchmen" was at least an hour before the plot left me at a loss. This whole film is full of deconstruction of superheroes and full of strong political metaphors. It did give me a different feeling from other American comic adaptations at the beginning, but due to the unfamiliarity of the original work, the background of its works, and the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, "Watchmen" cannot be like "300". That's a simple and even a bit rude way to take my head out of my eyes at the beginning, and aside from that bull B's intro, this hour hardly excites me. If "300" is the climax of nearly two hours, then "Watchmen" does not give people a hearty feeling at the end of the film. However, "300" still hasn't given me the desire to re-watch it to this day, but after I roughly read the "Watchmen" comics and understood the background of the comics, it made me feel this dull American comic hero film. The aftertaste is very memorable - and this is the charm of "Watchmen", and in fact, Alan Moore's comics have won the pursuit of countless fans because of their cold perspective and sharp criticism of reality. The most critical aspect of adapting a comic book into a movie is whether it can faithfully reproduce its "noir", and the movie "Watchmen" has also achieved this.
However, because the original comics are relatively jerky, this inevitably causes its readership to have certain limitations, and as its adapted movie, its audience will be narrower ("Watchmen" can even be said to be a beautiful comic The "niche movie" in the film), not to mention the tangled plot of the film's many clues, and the symbolic meaning of the film's ubiquity (including the characters themselves), which is the "dull" dialogue in the film. It can make people confused. In short, everything in the film has the meaning of keeping non-fans out. This attitude seems to be more indifferent than those of the directors of literary films. So it's easy to imagine how boring and boring, even extremely boring and boring, "Watchmen" is for those viewers who don't understand the "Watchmen" comics and are bent on watching the heroes of the American comics show their power; And because of the high degree of restoration of the original comics, "Watchmen" will inevitably gain the support of many diehard fans - therefore, "Watchmen" has to face a jealous and polarized comment, either big love or big love Hate, hardly anything centrist.
At the same time, most of the regions where "Watchmen" is released are highly rated, and its political metaphors throughout make it impossible for it to be released in some countries and regions (the violence and erotic scenes in the film directly classify this film as a children's film) In the unsuitable ranks, but even without these elements, the plot of "Watchmen" is not understandable to children. At the same time, it is fortunate that "Watchmen" has not been introduced to the mainland as rumored before, but unfortunately we missed it. "Scissorhands"), so Watchmen will have to deal with its possible box office embarrassment -- even if it's probably one of the best comic book movies. What these sacrifices have in exchange is the restoration of the original comics (the biggest adaptation of the film to the comics is the adaptation of the ending). Although its original author Alan Moore has repeatedly expressed his refusal to watch the film, "Watchmen" has For this kind of purpose, even if he is not happy, it is estimated that he will not have the urge to slap the table and curse his mother directly.
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