Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to gather praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite
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偶然又翻watchmen的時候,突然讓我覺得不喜歡少年派的原因根本還是在於,這一整個故事從未讓我産生過半點信任(跟“第一個故事”還是“第二個故事”沒半毛錢關係)。比起吃人、吃老媽、素食主義者大塊吃肉等等等等,長達400天的絕對孤獨和恐懼纔是重點吧,這足以徹底、永久的改變任何人,或者釋放任何人的本質。最簡單的情況莫過於watchmen中tales of the black freighter的描述,純粹的瘋狂。除此外讓人嗬嗬的,大概還有導演的立場,清晰、明確的錶達曖昧和含混,嗬嗬嗬。事實上派的劇作相當精緻,尤其是敘述架構、視點的選擇,老練狡猾,工於技巧,隻是人物的轉變在我看來相當弱外。歸根結底,還是對於人的認識不同。
評分近年變得更喜歡 reunion 敘事瞭:木梁刻下的「超和平 Busters」,秘密基地裏寫下的「預言之書」,或是一紙宣告義警違法的「Keene Act」。那些鄉愁,經年纍月漸漸褪色的誓約和正義,走上不同道路的人們麵對時代洪流的深深無力。隻是,為何重逢的契機總是死彆生離?
評分故事無敵。敘事手法無敵。
評分很奇怪原著和電影評分差這麼多,兩者甚至連許多分鏡都一樣(區彆是電影的《黑船傳奇》要在導演最終剪輯版中纔有。風格就是絕望,絕望到我連阿媽都不認識瞭),是我最喜歡的科幻電影。
評分近年變得更喜歡 reunion 敘事瞭:木梁刻下的「超和平 Busters」,秘密基地裏寫下的「預言之書」,或是一紙宣告義警違法的「Keene Act」。那些鄉愁,經年纍月漸漸褪色的誓約和正義,走上不同道路的人們麵對時代洪流的深深無力。隻是,為何重逢的契機總是死彆生離?
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