Seeing as your last post was quite literally nothing to do with my argument regarding Watchmen, and was everything to do with you needing to continue to post, I think it's about time I close this off.
Your core argument is that his phrase: "I'm not interested.", means that he does not care. I say "How can you say he doesn't care about what's being done to his work?", you say "I never said that.". So what exactly doesn't he care about, Cresh? I've explained to you that you're misplacing the context, and rather than him simply not being interested because he doesn't care, it's because it's a fight he can't win, and considering they've removed his name, he has no reason to fight the aforementioned losing battle.
Now comes the evidence that he does, in fact, care, despite not being interested enough to wage a war against Hollywood;
Passage 1:
"Alan Moore adamantly opposed a film adaptation of his comic book, arguing, 'You get people saying, that Watchmen is very cinematic, when actually it's not. It's almost the exact opposite of cinematic." Moore said that Terry Gilliam, preparing to direct Watchmen for Warner Bros. at the time, had asked Moore how the writer would film it. Moore told Graydon about his response, 'I had to tell him that, frankly, I didn't think it was filmable. I didn't design it to show off the similarities between cinema and comics, which are there, but in my opinion are fairly unremarkable. It was designed to show off the things that comics could do that cinema and literature couldn't.".
Adamantly opposed? Specifying precisely why he doesn't want his movies adapted, and why he thinks they shouldn't be? Sounds like he cares.
Passage 2:
"Moore also told Entertainment Weekly in December 2001, 'With a comic, you can take as much time as you want in absorbing that background detail, noticing little things that we might have planted there. You can also flip back a few pages relatively easily to see where a certain image connects with a line of dialogue from a few pages ago. But in a film, by the nature of the medium, you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second.'. Moore had opposed the adaptation of Watchmen from the beginning, intending to give any resulting film royalties to Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons. According to Moore, David Hayter's script was as close as he could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen. However, Moore added, 'I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read a certain way: in an armchair, nice and cozy next to a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee.".
Well then. Specifying WHY his works do not work as a movie, specifically Watchmen. Opposed to it from the beginning? Sounds like he doesn't care, doesn't it?
Let's recap before I proceed further:
You said: He doesn't seem to care (That his work is being travestied in this way).
Yes, that is what you meant, because you posted that in reply to me saying he does. So obviously that is what you meant that he didn't care about, any denial is weaselling.
I said: He does care, he just isn't continuing to fight a losing battle after they've adhered to all his wishes, save for not making the movie.
You said: He's not interested.
Further misunderstanding the context of that quote, continually denying that he cares, whilst also claiming...that he does care. So it remains to be seen from you what exactly he doesn't care about, since he evidently cares that this is happening, and is opposed to it, if not actively.
On with le proof.
"In January 2008, Alan Moore revealed that he had negotiated to have his name removed from Zack Snyder's film and to have all royalties go to Dave Gibbons. He said that Gibbons had asked him if he was interested in being updated about the film, but the writer declined. Moore said, 'I won’t be watching it, obviously. I can at least remain neutral to it as long as they’re taking my name off of it and not playing these silly, ultimately futile games like they were doing last time, which worked out so well for them.".
Note that bolded part.
He said he can remain neutral, disinterested if you will, AS LONG as they adhere to his wishes. He is still opposed to it happening, his opinion has not changed, so again, the pendulum swings back your way, Cresh.
What doesn't he care about? You've continually said he doesn't care, about what? About the movie being made? I've proven he does. About his work being butchered? I've proven he does. So what doesn't he care about? Is this all stemming from your off interpretation of "I'm simply not interested.", which I have since also proven to be out of context?
You have questions to answer.
Next piece of proof, last piece of proof:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JSb_ZPliu3Q
Hmm, sounds like a man who definitely doesn't care about this.
"Eventually I decided to refuse to accept any money for the films, and to ask if my name could be taken off them, so as I can avoid the embarassment of seeing my work travestied in this manner.".
Sounds like a man who doesn't care...let's continue.
"The most recent film that they've made of mine is apparantly this V for Vendetta, which was the final straw between me and Hollywood.".
Clearly his emphasised that it was the final straw between him and any dealings with Hollywood, hence "I'm not interested.", which comes from them adhering to his wishes this time. Therefore he has nothing to be interested IN, it doesn't mean he doesn't care. He has proven many times, as I have, that he does. You now have video footage of him expressing his opinion and care.
More? Ok.
"They were written to be impossible to reproduce in terms of cinema, and so, why not leave them simply as a comic, in the way they were originally intended to be?". Are you still proposing that he doesn't care, or clinging to your "He's not interested." misquoted nonsense? There's more, we're not through.
"And, [b]if you HAVE to make them into movies, please make them into better ones than the ones I have been cursed with thus far.".
1) Note the bolded part. He is accepting the inevitability of Hollywood doing this, that is why he's not interested anymore, because they've adhered to all his other wishes, so what else can he do? It doesn't emphasise a lack of care, in any way, it shows a presense of it, but an admission that acting upon it is futile.
2) He feels he has been cursed with his works being adapted into movies. It doesn't sound like he lacks care, it sounds like he's rather peeved.
If the next reply has nothing to do with my post and has no mature counters or relevance, I will report you for spamming and trolling. So where do we go from here? You've weaselled and dodged, lied and flip flopped your way to me having to comprehensively beat you down with undeniable facts and proof. What's the next step? Where do we go? Logically it should be you admitting you've been defeated, but there is more chance of Watchmen being great than there is of that happening, so what's going to happen now?
You've got nowhere to go in this debate, unless it's your aim to continue posting "I'm simply not interested.", despite the proof that Alan Moore has contradicted your use and application of his quote.
With that said, I anticipate your quote by quote reply of nothing relevant to this thread. I've put you in a point where you literally cannot counter my argument, all you can do now is reply with continued ignorance or petulance.
Away you go. If your next reply is anything like your last, I'll report you to enough mods that something will eventually be done about you. I'm already about to report you for admitting you're not trying to debate, and therefore you're trolling, so one more won't look good for you.
-AC