You mean so you're not subjected to awful dialog? Gods I hope that's not the case. So much of Watchmen is in the dialog. MizA noted that the scriptwriting will probably make or break the movie more than its visuals/directing.
Reading Moore's comments in the EW interview he calls 300 racist, homophobic and stupid - I could see the last one, but I didn't get the first two.
Racist is maybe a stretch: there really was a battle between Persia and Sparta, and AFAIK it's uncontroversial that the persians of the time would have been duskier-skinned than the spartans. You can make an argument that the film trafficked in a certain sort of visual stereotyping of the exoticism of the persians, but trying to find a political statement in the production design of that movie beyond 'heh heh heh cool' may be reaching.
Homophobic: there's a throwaway line early on where one of the spartans dismisses the athenians as 'boy-lovers.' The line originates in the comics (IIRC), and is just Frank Miller being an ass as always: the spartans were as much practitioners of pederasty as the athenians and most of the other greek states/tribes/whatever. So yeah, demerits all around for that one.
I so hope they don't botch this one.
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Date: 2008-07-18 01:40 pm (UTC)I, too, am biting my nails.
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Date: 2008-07-18 07:39 pm (UTC)If "300" was any indication, it'll be visually stunning and best watched with the soundtrack off.
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Date: 2008-07-18 08:03 pm (UTC)Reading Moore's comments in the EW interview he calls 300 racist, homophobic and stupid - I could see the last one, but I didn't get the first two.
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Date: 2008-07-18 08:21 pm (UTC)Homophobic: there's a throwaway line early on where one of the spartans dismisses the athenians as 'boy-lovers.' The line originates in the comics (IIRC), and is just Frank Miller being an ass as always: the spartans were as much practitioners of pederasty as the athenians and most of the other greek states/tribes/whatever. So yeah, demerits all around for that one.
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Date: 2008-07-18 08:40 pm (UTC)I think he was referring to the graphic novel (which, I confess, I have not yet read). I don't think he even saw the movie.