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I think a big part of Moore's problem with these adaptations is that, one and all, they've missed the central concerns and/or points of the original works. 'V for Vendetta' for example, has been, it is said, transfigured into an argument for democracy's superiority to fascism. Which, (a) presumes there's a difference between this great big body of people demanding one thing, and this othre great big body of people demanding one thing out of a sense of loyalty, unity, and paranoia, and (b) has really close to nothing in common with the general concerns and movement of the comic.
'From Hell' was an interesting film on its own, I suppose, but it was a murder mystery Depp-as-drunken-dandy-boy thing, and the comic was very clearly not. Well, mystery, I'll give, but not that sort of mystery.
And the 'League...' adaptation? Would anyone try to defend that at this point? Didn't Sean Connery punch the director over that thing? Let's let Moore have a few rounds of foot-stomping and badmouthing in a spread in a major paper or seven. He's earned it, and they've earned it pissing on the material while claiming how beloved and respected et al, it all is.
I'm fully prepared for any non-Gilliam director doing 'Watchmen' to start putting the 'The...' in front of the title in every interview, muddling up the names and such, while in production. All the while claiming to adore Moore's work, that Moore adores the film and its director, producer, and the third camera operator from the right in scene thirty-six. With Tom Sawyer and more contrail-kniving.
Somehow, I seriously doubt Moore would care as much about some paying-the-bills cross-over he penned for the Liefield Corporation du jour. |
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