Daily Dialogue — November 9, 2013

“I’m not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.”

— Watchmen (2009), written by David Hayter and Alex Tse

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is dramatic reveal, suggested by hoernsch. Today’s suggestion by David Proenza.

Trivia: Zack Snyder based his storyboards for the film on the panels of the actual graphic novel. He has stated that in order to be true to the source when adapting a graphic novel to the screen, the original visual art should be respected as much as the written portion. Snyder personally asked Dave Gibbons, the novel’s artist, to design the first teaser film poster. Gibbons enthusiastically agreed and designed the poster to have subtle visual clues hinting at the film’s plot. When casting the film, each actor was presented with a script and a copy of the book. They were allowed to carry the latter on set and re-write dialog to better match that of the source material. Dozens of scenes reenact panels from the novel. A good example is Rorschach squatting on the windowsill about to enter The Comedian’s apartment near the start of the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by David: “I love a villain who’s one step ahead of the hero. And Veidt, the “World’s Smartest Man”, proves why he’s called such by keeping the heroes distracted while his master plan was already carried out. Now that’s efficiency!”