While 80% may be an exaggeration, looking at IMDB's top 250, a huge amount of the supposed best films ever were adapted from books... Goodfellas, The Godfather, Shawshank, Fight Club, Raging Bull (I think), Casino, etc.
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The directors understand the film language, not the 'fans'. Fans who care more about getting everything "EXACTLY RIGHT" than actually creating a solid cinematic interpretation of the graphic novel should be completely ignored: they have no understand of film and should stick to their beloved source material.
Now, I don't know how I would've adapted Watchmen, being that I'm not a scriptwriter or a director... that's definitely a question to ponder. Ultimately, I think Watchmen simply can't be adapted.
Did Snyder add his own interpretation of the novel, or did he just carbon copy the dialogue and themes (with, of course, the mandatory dumbing down for the mainstream audience)?
I don't have an answer as to what SHOULD be done, though.
Out of ImdB's top 10, 6 are adaptions of novels, and 1 is an adaption of a play. Quite impressive statistics. Unless the novels are the best things ever made, then the movies must have done something in order to transcend the source material, don't you think?
Well it seems to me that the person here who is lacking in any knowledge of film direction is you. Because if you had any knowledge of filmmaking at all, you would know I am not wrong. How does copying a book page for page show any kind of understanding in cinematic techniques, artistic talent in film direction or filmmaking? The answer is... it doesn't! Tell me when or give ma an example of when Zach Snyder show any signs of technical direction or artistic interpretation. Show me where he decide, "I want to put my own spin on this". I didn't see it anywhere. What I saw was Dave Gibbons art come to life. What's illogical is your statement.
About the screenplay. The book was great. Alan Moore did a wonderful job in creating an original and classic story. However, the reason that the screenplay didn't work for the film was because it works for the book and only the book. Meaning the book needed to use every word that was written to help illustrate what Dave Gibbons could not draw. Film is a visual art form. Therefore, you do not have to over explain things in dialogue, just show it. The whole sequence with the origin of Dr. Manhattan, could have been a lot shorter, simpler, and direct. Unfortunately, it was drawn out and boring.
And I know that there are a boatload of people who do like the film. But if you had read the forum, there are a lot people who think this is the greatest comic movie ever made. Which, unfortunately it is not.
Sorry, the Spiderman movies suck also. But my reasons for that is for another forum.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]:
-Fight scene with Ozzy
-Prison fight scene
-Rorschach getting his costume back
-Dr. Manhattan being framed
-assassination attempt on Ozzy
-Nite owl's reaction to rorschach's death
-Rescuing people from burning building
Then he changed most of the costumes as well.
There was likely more but that's all that sticks out at the moment. How you didn't see any of this is beyond me.
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eh, I preferred that they fought against Veidt some more and that someone actually cared about what happened to Rorschach instead of them completely ignoring it. But whether the scenes were better or not is irrelevant.
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There are definitely things in the movie that surprisingly I thought they did better than the comic.
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It's a risk Snyder should've taken. Just look at "The Matrix", "The Godfather", "American History X", and "2001: A Space Odyssey" just for a few examples.
What do you mean life experience has nothing to do with it? Of course it does! It has everything to do with it. I feel that the real waste of time is arguing with you. Because, like I said before you have nothing to argue about.
You're constantly one-upping yourself in the immaturity department, sir. And if we're applying life experience, let me just say that I've been a member here for close to 5 years and I've learned what people are worth debating with; judging by your posts here you're not one of them. If you can't debate without resorting to childish logic and meaningless insults, then what's the point?
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