[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Annuga

I'm pretty sure 'original principles' refers to the narrative purpose Moore intended that the movies did not pick up on, the man has been very vocal about disliking adaptations of his work as a whole outside of the Justice League episode For The Man Who Has Everything. Haven't seen V For Vendetta nor read the original but I have read and seen the other two. For example, ehen The Comedian is about to rape Sally, the camera sexualizes Sally's body with certain camera shots, making her more 'alluring', the fact it is a rape scene should tell you all you need to know about why this is wrong. For the Killing Joke, at one point, Joker says "Why aren't you laughing?" In the movie, he angrily yells this while beating the shit out of Batman but in the comic he seems puzzled, confused, as if he was questioning if his 'one bad day' point was truly wrong before Batman appears out of a mirror, as if to symbolize shattering Joker's point of view. Moore was a man that was very particular with details like that


TLDR: I think he's massively upset that they missed the point of his work to the point he doesn't want association, feeling ashamed about the perversion of his work

When I mentioned Moore above, I was referring to his work on Swamp Thing. He also strayed very far from the original idea and treated the main cast of characters extremely harshly. So he himself can be reproached for the same abuse of the original, even despite the approval of Len Wein, who was the editor of DC Comics at that time. You can always say that money was king.
I generally agree about film adaptations of Moore?s works. But here I can only repeat what I heard from one screenwriter: ?If you want the film to turn out the way you intended, you must shoot it yourself.? Directors are also creative people with their own quirks, and few are able to meticulously transfer a script to the screen without introducing something of their own.
What bothered me more was that Moore once said that Watchmen was impossible to film. This is already an exaggeration. It's impossible to film One Hundred Years of Solitude, but Watchmen is quite easy. Although, personally, I would make a series, entrusting each chapter to a separate director. Because Snyder's glamorous bombast really doesn't suit the story.