Who indeed?
A quote taken from the roman writer Juvanel (50 -130 A.D.). This was the tagline to the now mainstream knowledgeable graphic novel The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I’ve come to love these old episodes of Prisoners of Gravity that have been popping up on You Tube. They were podcasts before the world would know or even understand what a podcast was or what the hell a podcast could be.
Now we have an entire episode dedicated to Moore’s and Gibbons’ Watchmen creation:
part 1
part 2
part 3
Almost forgot to include a quote from Alan Moore from a recent interview conducted by the LA Times.
“I find film in its modern form to be quite bullying,” Moore told me during an hour-long phone call from his home in England. “It spoon-feeds us, which has the effect of watering down our collective cultural imagination. It is as if we are freshly hatched birds looking up with our mouths open waiting for Hollywood to feed us more regurgitated worms. The ‘Watchmen’ film sounds like more regurgitated worms. I for one am sick of worms. Can’t we get something else? Perhaps some takeout? Even Chinese worms would be a nice change.”
Say what you will, Mr Moore. I even agree with the bulk of your ideas. But I still would like to see what Zack Snyder made of your work.
(via the truly wonderful thing that is you tube, la times)
He talks a bit about magic, too.
“Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.”
GDN flashback: Geek Networking of the 1990s was Quaint, Televised, Canadian
(*’Who watches the watchmen?’ -Juvanel (50 -130 A.D.), Satires, VI, 347. It’s curious that I first learned the origin of this phrase only weeks ago at the 2008 Dragon*Con panel that focused on the original graphic novels The Watchmen.)
