Alan Moore Culture Show pt5

Alan Moore's Interview for BBC2's Culture Show on 9th March 2006

7th Augst 2010 - a long long time ago, before google moved into youtube land, video sizes, compression rates and a whole other bunch of factors ment if your videos were over 100mb, you had to make them shorter. Not being a video editing genius, i didn't know how to "downscale" the videos, only cut them into smaller segments.
Many moons have passed since that time, many different "terms of use" things have been signed to use youtube, as im sure, a lot else has changed - as well as me not having any copies of any of the Alan Moore videos i've uploaded to youtube - so all i can suggest, if this really really annoys you, is find one of those programs to rip/download youtube videos, put them all together, and watch the whole thing.

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[manny4life]

damn.....I'm sorry for Alan Moore...Hollywood has really raped his work.

[fuhrerschein2008]

Personally, I think V for Vendetta was a good movie. Not as brilliant as the graphic novel of course.

And I can very well understand Moore's opinion because they changed the topic: in the book, V fights against fascism and for anarchy - whereas anarchy is never even mentioned in the film; there, I think, it seems as if V was fighting for a democratic system as Europe and the US have it now.

[Superfreaxx]

@bartocorleone

Watchmen used 95% of the plot from the book. Not 95% of the narrative.

[Superfreaxx]

@GabrielaFA

I'm a guy my experience with watching V for Vendetta was very much the same as yours. I knew that something at the writing or execution level had misfired, then I remembered during the films release campaign that Alan Moore said he hated the script. So to figure out what went wrong, I read the comic and never looked back.

[GabrielaFA]

Needless to say, I am now A HUGE fan of Alan Moore and have read most of his major works.

Sorry for the long story. My point is that I do think Alan Moore hates that his work was 'adapted' into films, because, damn, EVEN I hate it.

I am living proof of the diservice that Hollywood has done to Moore's work.

Had I not read the actual comics, I would have though it was just 'comic stories'.

Fuck Hollywood and their watered down versions of almost EVERY story they 're take'.

LONG LIVE ALAN MOORE!

[GabrielaFA]

Not knowing the background of the films I just thought to myself, Yeah, comics are indeed boring.

Then about a year after watching Watchmen a friend of mine told me he could not believe I did not enjoy Alan Moore's work (I was basing my opinions on the movie, wrongfully) because he thought I would agree with a lot of the views he presents on his comics. He lent me Watchment and just 20 mins into reading it I could tell I had found what I could not point out during the movie adaptations.

[GabrielaFA]

Personally I can say that (maybe cause I'm a girl) I had never read a comic before and had no idea who Alan Moore was until I was about 21 or so.

Prior to that I watched V for Vendetta and Watchmen - not really because I wanted to, but because my friends wanted to watch them. And I remember during both movies being EXTREMELY bored but at times feeling like "there was something there" that I could not quite point and it would dissapear whenever I tried to find it.

[fuhrerschein2008]

@ZombieDragQueen In the film V says: "People shouldn't be afraid of their government, but every government should be afraid of the people", perhaps in slightly different words - while Moore's point is not that the government should afraid of their people, but that there should not be any government at all.

[ZombieDragQueen]

@fuhrerschein2008

Depends on how you define anarchism. Provided that humans would take their responsabilities and cooperated in an anarchistic society, that would be the true form of democracy, where everybody has the same rights and duties based on the collective good of the society. So I think it was clear in the film V was fighting for a radical cause and the message of it is today yet more poignant than when the book was written.

[natmanprime]

I agree with Doctor House!  The Doctor is indeed in the HOUSE with his clarity of thought amidst all the delusion!

His comment should not be hidden!

[natmanprime]

I agree with rbogart123. The most annoying bits were that goddmamn smirk CONSTANTLY on the faces of ozzy and on Kovacs as a child after he bites ear. It totally betrays A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHARACTERS. Also when rorschach goes apeshit on the psychologist (wtf?) and most hilarious when niteowl tells ozzy to shove it at the end of movie and he's then yelling "noooooooo!" when rorschach gets blasted.

Minor points if you don't understand the point of the book.