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I'm saying basically the same thing you are, that a lot of the things that make Watchmen special are borrowed from film, and hence would not make a film special in any way.
Some, yeah. But as Boboss points out, some of the truly vital elements are comics-specific; the regular grids (and the subliminal rush of excitement when that regularity is violated), the symmetry of composition, the pseudo-documentary backmatter, and especially the heavy use of narrative captions. I can't see how Chapter 4 (Dr. Manhattan's everything-at-once perception of time), or the parallel narrative of the Times Square street scene and the pirate comic "Marooned," could possibly translate to film.
And to me, those are two of the most important elements of the book. Maybe their importance isn't immediately apparent, but they're essential to the thematic unity of the work.
It'd be easy enough to shoot a superficial adaptation of WATCHMEN—to simply "tell the story" as it happens in the book. But it wouldn't be WATCHMEN, would it? |
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