Who Watches the Watchmen? I will!
Posted on | November 15, 2008 | No Comments
What serves as inspiration for my writing?
Many things. It could be anything from a tragic newspaper article or video game, to a mundane incident or a random scent. But every once in a while a movie comes along that gives me chills, that taps into something so primal, so innate in me that I say to myself, “I must watch that!” just so I can gain a little motivation for my own screenwriting and filmmaking.
It happened to me when I saw the trailer for Terminator 2. It happened with The Phantom Menace. This year it was The Dark Knight. And now it’s happened again. With the second trailer for The Watchmen.
If you’ve never heard of this movie adaptation of the Alan Moore comic mini series (yes, it’s a comic book — don’t believe the crap you hear about it being based on the hit “graphic novel,” that’s just PR-speak for a comic book), just know that it’s one of the most critically and commercially acclaimed comic book series of all time. And probably the most storied, sophisticated and influential story in modern comics history.
In Watchmen, Moore writes about a 1980s of a different time line, one in which costumed heroes have been outlawed and the USA is one step away from a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. While the world is threatened with a nuclear holocaust, two retired heroes (Rorschach and Nite Owl) discover that one of their former allies (The Comedian) has been murdered.
Is there a conspiracy to pick off former heroes one by one? Is it the work of the Soviets? The US government? A former archenemy?
From what I can see, director Zach Snyder (300) has done a pretty amazing job of capturing the essence of Moore’s comic. Now, “watch” the trailer below yourself and see if you get a sudden jolt of inspiration.
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