Zack Snyder ’s adjustment of Watchmen will seek to simulate the smell and detailed flavour of the graphical novel , but where did that look and feel originate ? The multilayered original comic playscript by Alan Moore and collaborator Dave Gibbons is carry with references to everything from British scifi video to Mayan death divinity . And Snyder project in some new reference point of his own when he made the celluloid . We ’ve put together the most authoritative ace so you wo n’t need footnote when you dig into Watchmen . Moore has summons Ah Pook Is Here , the 1970 collaboration of Malcolm McNeill and William S. Burroughs , as a Watchmen primary source ( you may see an image from it at right , above ) . Ah Pook Is Here never made it into the marketplace as a pictorial novel , but the comic did appear as The Unspeakable Mr. Hart in Britain ’s Olympus clip . The image of the Mayan Death God resemble a sure godly name in the Watchmen universe : Dr. Manhattan . The art and tone supplied a mythical deepness for the institution of a God . Moore has cite Burroughs ’ “ idea of repeat symbol laden with meaning ” as a feature he wished to be .
The British psycho - scifi serial The Prisoner fetch a direct shout - out when Rorschach grumbling “ Be seeing you ” – a recurring line on the show – as he leaves through a window . The production motif pops up in Nite Owl ’s Owlship , the Archimedes :
The Prisoner ’s coy tone of voice and mysterious game tress are found in the dark humor of the original comic – not an surface area that Snyder is peculiarly know for . So we may not be see much Prisoner in the moving picture version of the movie .
Rorshach ’s interrogation by a psychologist in Issue 6 is told through the diary of his inquisitor . Such a machine might be too clunky for celluloid , result in something like the possible action scene of Blade Runner . The struggles of both inquisitor and subject for identity are common stem here , and the lonesome Owlship moving through the the city landscape painting also resonates with the Ridley Scott moving picture . The 2nd Nite Owl is played by Patrick Wilson in the film . His desperate post - hero plight recalls Travis Bickle ’s madden solitariness in 1970s deathtrip classical Taxi Driver . The long pan across Bickle ’s sad phone call in the plastic film ’s mediate , as though the television camera was ashamed to watch , recalls this depiction of Dan Dreiberg in Issue 1 :
Snyder ’s has mentioned the sleaziness of Taxi Driver and David Fincher ’s Seven as inspiration for the gritty factor of Watchmen , all the better to wear off the superhero color .
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