Alan Moore - Hypocrite

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, at least in theory; no one's works should be considered "sacred", as long as everyone get's appropriate credit and compensation for their work...but you did make a few false statements. So in the spirit of nitpic-ing...

1) Moore didn't make Mina a vampire. In the graphic novel, she's just a strong-willed, resourceful person with a bit of experience of the supernatural.

2) Dorian Gray...not even in Moore's work. They added him for the movie (though I actually liked his character, I must admit).

3) Tom Sawyer...also added for the film...I guess to appeal to American audiences...uh, I guess. He was sort of "meh" for me.

If you've ever read Moore's work (which I highly recommend, he's that good), you'll see that he doesn't just write a story, he 'crafts' it, using the media of graphic novels to do so. Unfortunately, a lot of that media just doesn't transition well to movies, so some of the best parts of his work...what really makes it special...are completely cut out of the movie.

For example, in Watchmen there's a whole issue of the comic that 'mirrors' itself, front-to-back. The first image on the first page has the same composition, character placement, etc, as the last (though with different people, places), the second page mirrors the second to the last, etc...with the center page an awesome fold out of the two stories intersecting. This just cannot be recreated as effectively (if at all) with cinema. There's also a TON of back story included that really fleshes out the character and makes you care about them (if not care for them)...a two hour movie can only include so much of that.

So, I see where he get's annoyed at "his" work being "butchered"...I just wish he'd turn his mind to writing a screenplay or two. I'd love to see what he could do if he really WANTED to make a movie of his ideas. Perhaps it would suck, but it wouldn't be boring.

Thanks for reading!

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This thread is just dumb, not only does turnupthesun not know anything about the comic they're bitching about, but also don't seem to know much of anything about the characters as they were in their own books. No, Hyde doesn't look anything like Jekyl, in the book Hyde was younger, smaller, and apish looking. Him being so much bigger comes up more then once in the comic

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""Alan Moore is notorious for getting annoyed at films which he thinks 'ruin' his work""

""I am not aware of any version of the Dracula story where Mina Harker becomes a vampire. Yet Alan Moore decided to make her one.""

case in point. Because things like this happen with ignorant fools like you. His work gets misinterpreted.




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Hard work and determination only make up for a lack of natural TALENT.

Your points have been dealt with so far (you really should read the original before judging Moore, but you admitted that already), but some people mentioned that Hyde explains the size differences in the second series, and I wanted to remind readers that Jekyl mentioned it before that in the original series when he said that he used to be taller than he was at that moment. Moore had the size thing worked out from the start.

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I would call Moore a whiney baby rather a hypocrite.

Since novels were first adapted for films major changes to the characters and storylines have been made, so Moore should have been expected this would happen to his work. He made the decision to sell his work knowing adapatations would most likely happen.

To stop his concern he has the option of no longer selling his work to producers. I would think if he continues to sell his work to the movies then he should stop complaining