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[filkertom]

markbernstein aimed me towards a fairly cool student film project adapting a scene from Alan Moore's Watchmen.

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[illusionmajik.livejournal.com]

oh gods
This was just awesome
Wow

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

For a student film, it's very well done. If that seems like damning with faint praise, I didn't mean it in that sense. Student films are intended to be seen more as art than entertainment, and the camerawork and background music established an impressive mood. I didn't even mind the homemade hat on Rorschach very much, or the fact that the guy's "lab" was the corner of someone's basement with a dirty old deep freeze.

But beyond that mood, you'd have to have read the graphic novel to get much out of it. I'm sure that at least half the film class said "What?" after the screening, and the filmmaker would have to sit and explain "Watchmen" to them.

Personally, I would have chosen a sequence with inherent drama in it, that would have been able to stand on its own. Like the episode from Rorschach's past where he found and executed a child murderer, with his explanation of why he did it (to a prison psychiatrist), giving some rationalization for the voiceovers of the scenes that were printed in the comic captions.