Storytellers Unplugged for March

[truepenny]

Post here.

It's about the movie of Watchmen, which we just got back from seeing. There aren't any spoilers.

There is a spoiler here, though.


The movie made several changes, most--although not all--of them for the better (at least in terms of meeting the storytelling needs of its particular medium). But the one that just filled me with glee is that when Laurie accidentally activates Archie's flamethrower, she's not down in Dan's basement cleaning. She's snooping. [ETA: buymeaclue, a more alert reader than I, points out that Laurie's snooping in the book, too. Mea culpa!] And she doesn't press the button for the flamethrower because she thinks it's the cigarette lighter. She presses the button for the flamethrower because she wants to know what it does. My inner twelve-year-old tomboy is so vindicated.

Also, while all the casting is eerily perfect and the performances likewise, Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach is solid-state awesome.

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[onewiththequill.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the graphic novel (though I will as soon as I can get my hands on it), but I adored the movie. Rorschach is the new love of my life, and his friendship with Nite Owl made me all melty inside.