On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:11:22 -0700, Phantom scojocupcake wrote:
> On Mar 21, 11:33 am, SighFi <w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Alan Moore... bloomin' brilliant!
>>
>> Even a funny tale on his life story :)
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7307303.stm
>
> An undeniably fine writer but his constant moaning about how Hollywood
> has ruined his work seems mighty hyproctical. I'd say 99 percent of
> articles about Moore's work have him moaning about how his work is
> unfilmable or how Hollywood continues to destroy his books. From what
> I've read on the matter, I believe most of his work belongs to him, not
> sure about Watchmen, perhaps it's the property of DC Comics - but he
> takes Hollywood's money and still complains:
>
> "Moore is not interested in the adaptation, however, and has insisted
> his name should not be attached to the movie.
>
> He believes most modern films are not only artistic failures but
> "probably detrimental to modern culture."
>
> I accept I am a hypocrite - I say I am leaving this board forever and
> come back but it's a silly if rather tired joke - Moore's hypocrisy is
> the worst kind - he bites the hand that feeds up. Hey, Alan, if you
> don't want Hollywood to ruin your books, don't sell the rights to them.
> Quite simple. Don't take the money. But he does and still complains.
> Anyway, his rank hypocrisy doesn't take away his achievements as a
> writer.
>
> scojomoo
Hmmmm... not sure... still living in a semi... a real hypocrite might
swallow their pride/opinion and take the money and shut up, and do more
to make more money from filming more of their stories.
I think the problem of going from comic to film is that more is said in a
comic from less visual action... also the gaps between frames allow the
reader to fill in the gaps more themselves rather than film which leaves
little to the imagination by its nature.
But I think some comics converted well to film, I rate sin city and 300
highly... (but have not read the originals so cant compare) Dredd was not
too bad... but a lot have been crap... but then I don't like the DC style
"super" hero anyway.
Zenith... that might make a good film... if they did not yankify it too
much! Now that was a classic uber hero story... best one I have ever
read...
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