Chain Reaction Part 3 - Stewart Lee talks to Alan Moore

[GreatScottPilgrimage]

Any one who calls this man pretentious has no idea who this man is.

[MajikPanda]

What a brilliant dude. 

[JonathanBloggs]

Hahaha "I don't want anything more to do with films at all"

Oops.

[rude1987]

dogs with capes...haha

[leonheartmm]

THANKYOU!

[randyhelzerman]

how the hell could they joke about a cosmic whale with a bad leg without talking about moby dick????

[DaughterofKyuss]

Thanks for uploading this interview; completely missed it first time round. Thoroughly enjoyable - what nice chaps!

[KiljanArslan]

Its a shame how they butchered League

Super Moby dick is hilarious.

[Eldritchard]

It exists too, he wasnt making it up. I typed it into google, my god hilarious isnt the word..........

[KiljanArslan]

I know its fucking green and has red wings!

[missuscake]

Great interview

[SpiderguyJ]

This is amazing.

[Raskolnikov32]

a genius who has the same working class smokers laugh as mickey pearce. brilliant.

[HartleyHolmberg]

Absolutely brilliant.

And what more could a fan of Alan Moore ask for?

[avastyer]

That lawsuit about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was from Larry Cohen. He's a scriptwriter and director who's done some very comic book-like and satirical films (Q: The Winged Serpent and The Stuff etc). They're actually on a similar wavelength. Shame it all went to court. Americans do love a lawsuit...

[Yeroc6799]

He's really awesome. Such an imaginative, creative person. That analogy he just made between magic and writing was so well-said. He's the kind of guy that makes you think with every sentence. I think the American media has this image of him as an egomaniac or something, but it seems like that couldn't be further from the truth.

[MikeRyu]

Excellent! Thanks for the upload!

[8lu37hRoTtle]

i use to think alan moore was some crazy cynic... a cantankerous bastard... but noo

he's such a jovial guy... super cool...

[Parhell]

i agree. when you see some of the things he says they seem mean, but when you hear it from him you can tell that he dosent mean it like it sounds, he just isnt in to the hollywood thing and just prefers not to be recognized in an industry he dosent feel associated with.

[JETemplar]

I always knew Moore was a Superman fan. His Whatever Happened to The Man of Tomorrow feels like a love letter.

[JtMills]

I hope he actually is willing to check out the Watchmen movie. I don't know how he feels about carbon-copies, but I mean how much more faithful can you really be?

[JETemplar]

He said That he read the script and screenplay and that was as close as anybody could get to adapt the Watchmen (Which that honor alone makes me want to see the movie). But that he wont be seeing it, that he is giving his share of the money to the artist and that he wants his name out of it.

He says that Watchmen is meant to be read in a couch with a cup of coffee and looking back at pages to review little things that become big things as the story proggress and that's impossible in film.

[seansalvador1]

@JtMills

Copying the costumes and setting exactly is no substitute to telling the story properly. Making films is no longer about telling stories, it's about visuals (the awful trend of needless CG) and selling.

[PDBrazill]

wonderful stuff!

[ThatNickGuy28]

I swear, I could listen to Moore's voice all day. For someone who looks like a crazed hobo, he's one of the finest speakers I've ever heard.

I've read most of his works, from most of his ABC work to Watchmen. The only thing I've yet to read is From Hell.

Of his works, I couldn't finish Promethea. it was a beautiful book, but the plot kind of took a nosedive in favor of becoming a history book on magic.

[shiftplus]

From Hell is his best work. Really. Read it soon :)

[FarmerHeard]

@ThatNickGuy28 dude, just shut the fuck up

[ThatNickGuy28]

@FarmerHeard

u mad bro?

[seansalvador1]

@ThatNickGuy28

I loved Promethea and i'm really not into supernatural, spiritual, magical nonsense. It was one of the most beautiful things i've ever read, great story and the artwork..! What can i say abut the art?!

[ThatNickGuy28]

@seansalvador1 Oh, absolutely. JH Williams III is one of the finest modern artists today.

My issue with Promethea was that it started out as this great, mystical adventure with a rich mythology. About halfway through, though, it turned into Moore stepping onto a soapbox to talk about the many levels of magic. The prevoius pacing took a total nosedive.

[seansalvador1]

@ThatNickGuy28

It's called a framing device. The story was the frame which was used to discuss the magic (and that's also one of the points, especially Hermes Trismegistus being the origin of Promethea's power etc.), it's also a theme in other Moore works that fiction is a kind of reality in-and-of-itself: a kind of magic.

[ThatNickGuy28]

@seansalvador1

Sure, and I get that. My point is that the pace and structure of the story was very different once the two women began traversing through the different levels of reality. Previously, it was a great woman-empowerment themed superhero comic with a rich mythology. There were some moments of discussion regarding magic (such as the "sex" issue), but it was still an adventure story, not a lecture.

[seansalvador1]

@ThatNickGuy28

Sorry, i'm not having a go, but that's the point of framing. It's supposed to be like that.

[JoJaDaRu]

One of the best Moore interview's I've heard. He sounds so completely reasonable... against all odds at times.

[Stepper11]

Excellent set.

[Sou1Cru5h]

i could listen to this man all day

thanks for posting this

[magiclightbox]

There are a couple of extra snippets from this interview at stewartlee(dot)co(dot)uk/archi­ves.htm

[AlanMooreVids]

Thanks a lot.

[0BatGirl0]

I love Alan, such a great guy. You don't get to see his sense of humour much.

[cdowg187]

Alan Moore is SOOOOOO charismatic it's amazing!