and it feels strangely like an essay about Watchmen.
I just read it again this week. Straight shooting, I'm not an Alan Moore fanatic. But there's a whole list of really good reasons why Watchmen is proof that most comic writers should just slash their wrists.
I breathed an audible sigh of relief when the Watchmen film project was (at least temporarily) postponed. It'd be like writing a symphony about a painting. How the hell would you do it? How do you make a movie about reading a pirate comic? Watchmen was about composition, and each panel of it demanded several moments to recognize all that was going on. The human eye is drawn to what dominates the frame, yet the action in Watchmen is driven by what's in the background. If the film were to be truly faithful to the comic, thirty percent of the time would be dedicated to a few people standing around a news stand.
This is cruel, but I hope it dies on the vine.
So stack that on to the pile of topics I need to explore further.
It's nearly 2 am, and I honestly don't have a good excuse for being conscious right now.
Oh, and for a truly surreal sonic experience:
Dr. Who Theme/Britney Spears remix
'Cause, you know, it's 2 am.
Friday, June 24, 2005
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