Presentation: "Watchmen: from comics to movie"

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1. Watchmen FROM COMICS TO MOVIES
2. • Published in 1986 and 1987 by DC Comics. • Created by Alan Moore (writer) and Dave Gibbons (artist). • Originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics – once DC denied the proposal, Moore created his own characters. • Alan Moore is frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history. • The plot reflects the contemporary anxieties and parodies the superhero concept – the main villain, Ozzymandias, is a former ally of the other characters.
3. • Released in 2009 by Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures and Legendary Pictures. • Directed by Zack Snyder – 300, Sucker Punch and Man of Steel • Main cast: Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino • Alan Moore didn’t approve the movie – he hates all filmed adaptations of his work.
4. Question: Is it possible not to lose the main message when we’re adapting a graphic novel into a film?
5. Let’s compare them! Graphic novel Movie “Thermodynamic miracles... Events with odds against so astronomical they’re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter…until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.” “Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I’ve longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that, in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life for generation after generation, until, finally, your mother loves a man, Edward Blake, The Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate, and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds, it’s you, only you, that emerged.
6. • “Tradução e Adaptação: Encruzilhadas da Textualidade em Alice no País das Maravilhas de Lewis Carrol, e Kim, de Rudyard Kipling” – Lauro Maia Amorim • “Tradução Intersemiótica” – Julio Plaza • “Linguística e Comunicação” – Roman Jakobson – translated by Izidoro Blikstein and José Paulo Paes