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Superheroes, when you hear it probably you think about Marvel characters. Characters who always win, never dies or even get hurts. Heroes who always win against their enemies, no matter who they are. We always can be sure that at the end good will triumph.
Watchmen breaks with what we know from stories about hero, instead of group of people with crystal personality we get individuals which we never have expected that they will save the world. Team of persons which one is sociopathic and the other one has alcohol problems or and the other have disease that would cause we deleted these person from our list of “Good heroes”. In same intro to the movie we learn about black past of our heroes history while in the background we can hear the song of Bob Dylan “The times they are a changin” which perfect fit with the theme of film.
In the word created by Alan Moore we get revised our current history of introducing superheroes. By this procedure a lot of historical events has been completely changed.
America won war in Japan, because of using superheros instead of using atomic bomb and also they won the overwhelming predominance of the cold war with the Soviet Union.
The US with that force became a country which dictates terms.
It should be mentioned that despite the fact of first second of this movie we can see that Batman would never “rise” because thanks to one of the Watchmen, Bruce's parents would be rescued.
Heroes are used in the political struggle and wars. In the first minutes of the film we can see as one of the main characters in Watchmen probably at the request of R. Nixon kill the current president.
People begin to protest because they fear incredible power which nobody can control. Therefore, more and more frequently push against government to ban the the activities of Watchmen. The government relented and officially retired from cooperation with watchmen.
Watchmen is very underrated film because everybody expects just another story about superheros who who have defeat the villain with a lot of special effects.I can say it’s definitely not a film for these persons. But if you looking for a long, complicated movie that will really make you think about the concepts of right or wrong and heroism you absolutely have to watch it.
Question:
Do you think this types of heroes is more closer to our reality than Marvel characters?
Would you like to superheroes existed?
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There would definitely be an act akin to the Superhero Registration Act as depicted in Marvel Comics in place. Best case scenario, they would have to become federal employees taking orders from the government.
There would be specialized police units set up to deal with it superhumans.
I'm fan of Batman and DC heroes. You can see battle inside of them when they have to make decision what is good and what is bad. They are not only good, smiled and willing to help. They are very human in being superheroes.
I'm not sure if I'm fan of gray heroes, I'm not sure what will be sowded in the moie, but I'll watch to form an opinion
I would like to superheroes exist... if I was one of them ;) On a more serious note, I think existance of superheroes would bring a lot of problems, so it's better when we can meet them only in comics, books and movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13MZm2N66E
I really like that the creators of that movie broke patterns about superheroes in our mind. Because last superheroes movies are getting kind of predictable for viewers.
I agree that such kind of heroes is able to save the world and even more likely to save the world. The beauty of imperfection.
Science childhood I remember we dreamed about being a superhero or just having superhero friends. With my friends of we were discussing a lot of which talisman from Jeki Chan cartoon we would like to have. Or a snake to become invisible whenever we want. Or to be very strong. That’s a great topic for nostalgia.
Of course, I would like the superheroes to exist, but only if I could be one of them).
I also liked Deathpool who was a bit different from other super heroes. I haven’t seen Watchmann yet but I might now.
I am not really into movies that are based on DC Comics or Mavel. I feel like they're the same films and nothing is really new and you can always predict what will happen.
I think it is nice way to show people that there can be something else than idealized superheroes. They made them more like some people and less like superheroes.
I think this quote from Skyrim is best to comment on your article ;)
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Perhaps if DC managed to pull it together and do movies like Batman vs Superman right - without them being slow, boring and "gritty" - it could surpass Marvel at least in the story department. Some of the fresh DC stories, like the Injustice series are simple and interesting enough to make a good movie out of them.
Batman would never “rise” because his parents was rescued... My life will never be the same...