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"Most importantly, Hayter cuts out most of the incidental characters, or whittles their roles to the bare minimum. Rorschach’s prisoner psychiatrist is in the film, but his wife and home life problems are not. We get a glimpse of the newsstand and the comic reading kid (no real pirate comic content, though), but they’re more cameos than anything."
Ah! The two Bernards and the whole streetlife business is essential to making the ending work. Hopefully this is the case of where it'll be a developed visual motif that isn't written, because if you don't care about those characters who die, the whole moral question at the end is so much simpler. As Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic," and if you don't know the people who die, it's much tougher to understand Rorshach's point. I was really conflicted at the end of the book because in theory Manhattan is right, but so many characters I knew died, that can't stand.
But, the fact that the rest seems to be intact is a good sign. Without the pirate comic, it would be tough to fit in scenes with the Bernards, and they wouldn't have any sort of direct purpose, and when you're trying to adapt a work this dense, scenes with no direct purpose probably have to go. |
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