Will Pop Culture Embrace ‘Watchmen’?
came. Why are the actors so young? They’re supposed to be retired superheros, right? Why is Rorschach so short? Dan Dreiberg should have a pot belly like he does in the graphic novel. Rumors followed. The script changed the original ending and no “Tales of the Black Freighter” in-story narrative. Then the trailer calmed the doubters. Director Zack Snyder was religiously faithful to the heart of the graphic novel in ways that mattered visually and verbally. The integrity of the novel and its violent depiction of an alternate 1985 America was not compromised for the moviegoing demographic and big box office returns.
Watching Watchmen.
Perhaps a more fitting title would have been “Will Pop Culture Embrace ‘Watchmen’? Maybe it Has Already.” What does ‘Ghost’ (1990) and ‘Watchmen’ have in common? Ask “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof. The graphic
