Watchmen
Posted on 11/03/2009 in Homepage 3, Specials
Watchmen by Zack Snyder is the film adaptation of the comic-book by Alan Moore (author of V for Vendetta and Constantine) and Dave Gibbons.
The comic-book
The twelve-issue comic-book was released from 1986 to 1987 by DC Comics, and follows a group of vigilantes, superheroes with personal, moral, relational problems, very different from the “standard superhero”. The Watchmen - expert Dr Manhattan who has superpowers thanks to a nuclear explotion – are human persons, original, special and controversial but normal.
The graphic novel is a cult for millions of fans and it has been studied more time for its formal complexity and deep contents.
The work has won the prestigious Hugo Award and it is onto the Time Magazine’s 100 greatest novels list since 1923.
Watchmen is set on 1985, in a alternative America where superheroes live normally in the society; the Cold War between USA and Soviet Union are open, USA has won the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon is shown to be elected to his third term as President. One of the superheroes is murdered so a group of heroes, investigating the murder, discover an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power in the world.
The movie
The film adaptation by Zack Snyder – director also of 300 based on the homonymous comic book - is faithful to 
the original graphic novel. Alan Moore, who has written Watchmen, was disagree with the movie project (he was disgree also with the adaptation movie of V for Vendetta) while Dave Gibbons, who drawn Watchen, was in favour of the movie.
Snyder has realized the movie thanks to amazing special effects able to tell the story. Make up, visual and digital effects, has been made by a lot of companies such as Moving Picture Company 
based on London, Los Angels and, since 2007, Vancouver where the Watchmen’s sfx have been realized with 250 shots of the key scenes, CG characters and CG sets.
Moving Picture Company has been guest at FFF2006 (eight edition) with Nicolas Aithaddi, who presented the Harry Potter’s visual effects, and Stuart Lashley who presented to the audience the digital effects of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of Were-Rabbit, open movie at FFF2008.
The movie is released in both conventional and IMAX theaters. Also the game Watchmen: The End is Nigh is released and it’s a prequel of the movie.
Interviews with Zack Snyder (director) and Des Jardin (VFX)
