There's an interesting article in today's New York times on the Watchmen movie which opens March 06. In it, Zack Snyder, the film's director talks about the opening scenes of the movie and his difficult job in trying make the film clear to those audiences that haven't read the book as well as to the graphic novels devoted fans.
Here's an excerpt:
The two introductory scenes, Mr. Snyder said, are concessions to audiences who know nothing of “Watchmen,” “so that they will swallow the bitter pill of the next 20 minutes of the movie and listen to a bunch of superheroes rap it out for a while, before anything else happens.”
For more than two and a half years this has been the Gordian knot that Mr. Snyder has been asked to untie: how to preserve enough of the multilayered and reference-rich “Watchmen” graphic novel to satisfy its devotees, while providing enough entry points for a mass audience willing to sit through a $120 million, 160-minute, R-rated movie about contemplative crime fighters who rarely get into fights.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a short movie by any stretch,” Mr. Snyder said. “But it’s the tightest version that I could give them and not feel like I raped it a little bit.”
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