A symbol I respect
Nov. 19th, 2009 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreSo, I finally just downloaded the Director's Cut of Watchmen because it seems the distributors don't think Australia is important enough to release the nifty DVDs with all the add-ons. (Please, correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to be able to purchase a region 4 copy of the Extended edition).
I'm currently watching it, having read the graphic novel since seeing the movie in the cinemas. There was a discussion I read recently about how they chopped out a lot of the sciency stuff in the movie. And last night I came across a scene like this that shat me to tears.
The bit where Dr Manhattan is explaining how the marketing guys wanted him to have a symbol, and if he's to have one, it will be one he respects, and he's drawing the dot and circle on his head.
Now I realise that the movie didn't explain WHAT that symbol is! In the GN he explains how they offer him the cliched electrons whizzing around a nucleus and how it's meaningless. What he draws on his forehead is a hydrogen atom - one electron and one proton, the first element, where everything else derives. It's beautiful and simple and the DAMN MOVIE DOESN'T EXPLAIN IT!!
Boo to moviemakers.
I'm currently watching it, having read the graphic novel since seeing the movie in the cinemas. There was a discussion I read recently about how they chopped out a lot of the sciency stuff in the movie. And last night I came across a scene like this that shat me to tears.
The bit where Dr Manhattan is explaining how the marketing guys wanted him to have a symbol, and if he's to have one, it will be one he respects, and he's drawing the dot and circle on his head.
Now I realise that the movie didn't explain WHAT that symbol is! In the GN he explains how they offer him the cliched electrons whizzing around a nucleus and how it's meaningless. What he draws on his forehead is a hydrogen atom - one electron and one proton, the first element, where everything else derives. It's beautiful and simple and the DAMN MOVIE DOESN'T EXPLAIN IT!!
Boo to moviemakers.
