Watchmen

The Film Adaptation of the “Unfilmable” Watchmen In 2009, Zack Snyder filmed the first and only adaption of what was considered to be an “unfilmable” (Van Ness 172) graphic novel: Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Moore was a firm believer in the fact that it was a story unable to be transferred over from a comic to another medium – the story was meant to stay in the medium it was designed for. The graphic novel allows for a complex, metatextual narrative structure to be employed to tell such the story of Watchmen that is filled with much ambiguity. In comparison, the theatrical cut film adaptation of Watchmen cut much of the storyline out that was present in the graphic novel, thus creating more narrative clarity for film audiences, especially those…

WATCHMEN Adaptation Analysis The adaptation of the WATCHMEN graphic novel to a live action movie is overall an acceptable feat, because the director kept most of the main plot points. Although it was not able to go into as great of detail as the comic was able to portray. If you had not read the novel prior to watching the movie chances are you were lost most of the time. Within the novel you are exposed to more characters and are given more background information about all of them, in the…

The comic, Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibson, employs a reoccurring symbol of a smiley face stained with blood covering its left eye. This reoccurrence of the symbol suggests that there is more to it than what the eye meets. It is such a simple symbol that shows happiness, yet is presented in such a convoluted manner in the comic. The smiley face in Watchmen is used ironically throughout the text to show how the characters, and perhaps all humans try to overlook or falsify violence,…

The Comedy of Nothingness: Nihilism of the Comedian in Watchmen In Alan Moore and Gave Gibbons’ 1986 comic Watchmen, a recurring theme throughout the novel is the use of Nihilism. I will be doing a close reading/literary analysis of how nihilism is reflected and used in the comic Watchmen. I will argue that doing a close reading of the character The Comedian in Watchmen, I can show how the philosophy of Nihilism is reflected not only in the comic but how that connection is represented in present…

Watchmen, a graphic novel written by Alan Moore, tells the story of a group of masked heroes during a tense moment in the midst of the Cold War. Within the chapters, we are introduced to a multitude of characters and the relationships they maintain between each other. Through these, we are shown how individual perspectives and characteristics can be affected by the influences of those we are close to. Doctor Manhattan changes his opinion on human society after an in-depth conversation with…

Watchmen in graphic novel form does an amazing job at presenting many different themes about ethics, the weight of war, and even drawing to light how well the different aspects of graphic novels can work together. While the themes, and main plot of the novel and film are similar, some pieces of the story are either lost, or completely thrown away. In “Watchmen As Literature”, Sanders discusses how each aspect, especially the visual aspects in a novel like Watchmen is planned carefully, and not…

Watchmen is one of the greatest graphic novel of all time for the simple reason it makes you question morality on a scale rarely seen in fiction indeed. When considering the characters in the book it’s hard to say that their Good or evil they are simply people who are convinced that they are right.Rorschach is a good ex he follows the law with conviction, but doesn’t see the problems with the law, he is violent very violent his unique way of doing vigilante justice is a reflection of law’s order…

Batman: The Long Halloween, and Watchmen, are very similar in some areas, and very different in some areas. Both books describe the hardships with being a super heroes, such as dealing with death of innocents, betrayed, misconceptions on some people. The Long Halloween still kept the superhero tradition of solving a mystery, beating the bad guy in a unique way, but at the same time, still following the typical tradition. Watchmen has a hero(es) that is trying to solve a mystery of the killings…

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is arguably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel of our time, and for good reason. What makes Watchmen so compelling is it offers many different things to discuss. It can be read as a traditional comic book but at the same time gives the reader insight on end of the world scenarios, and shows us what life may be like with actual superheroes, given the realistic back stories of the characters, Watchmen has a unique complexity that can be discussed in…

In the first chapter of Alan Moore’s graphic novel, Watchmen, a masked vigilante named Rorschach utilizes violence and pain as a method of achieving results. His method confirms and extends a few of the theories mentioned in Harvard professor Elaine Scarry’s published study, The Body in Pain. Rorschach’s violence on pages twenty-three and twenty-four of Watchmen stems from his mission to find out who brutally murdered Edward Blake, a fellow vigilante also known as “The Comedian”. Rorschach…