Introduction to Alan Moore | 4 Graphic Novels & Their Movie Adaptations
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2024
- A long(ish) video where I introduce one of my favourite author and his works.
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Alan Moore is the only celebrity to ever show up in one of my dreams and it's happened multiple times. That's unsettling when you consider that he identifies as a magician.
I do feel as if a lot of the time he’s goes abit too far up his ass but as far as writing goes. He’s the best there is and of my 4 years of reading comics Frank Miller is the only writer I’ve seen that’s on his level and in some cases, better
@@rolan5948 Neil Gaiman is great as well.
@@rolan5948 Also Mike mignola
He identifies as a magician?
i personally re read one of the Alan Moore Classics every year. i really recommend his swamp thing and miracle man. great stuff.
Nice video. Take note of two other Allen Moore stories to read. Superman: Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow, and my favorite graphic novel EVER Batman The Killing Joke. Both excellent stories, make sure you read these along with the four she mentioned.
Good job, I am awaiting my copy of Jerusalem, it should be here Friday. Its been awhile since i bought a book sight unseen but i enjoy his works. Today it seems many writers are just phoning it in for a quick buck, but i believe Mr Moore is always trying to challenge the reader with something new so im excited. He sold me when he was saying he was gonna publish it at 10,000 pages, knew that would be overkill (think is lil less than 1300 now) but a Tolstoy sized book is always intriguing
His work on Superman is also impressive such as for the man who has everything and whatever happened to the man of tommorow both were final Superman stories before pre crisis era.
Very useful your opinion of "From Hell". Nice video!
Impressive how movies on alan moore's work are great until you actually read the books... then they became really bad.
Not watchmen
+Clark Kent is superman Bruce Wayne is batman the movie is not nearly as good as the comic. It loses the points that make it awesome. It might not be that bad, but still it is a desrespect
I think it's one zach Snyders best works. How is it a disrespectful movie? Explain that to me, dr. Manhattan
Sorry to be late answering you. But ok, again I make my point telling it is a great movie by itself, but there are some points that make the comics amazing and unique and it is not all the history.
The comics spend a LOT of time to explain each of its characters. At least one chapter, some times it extends to other chapters. You can see the human and the "unhuman" part of then, you see it and you FEEL it. Much more than rorcharch frying a guy face in the oil you see that the phrase he sais in fact is "directed" to his psychologist. The comics are mostly free of violence that is constructed and let to the END.. I truly do not understand why snyder let it flow through the movie like that. Some of those thing that he ignores and make the way he wants sounds as disrespectful to me.
Many other points such as symmetry, colours, journals in the end of the chapters, the extention of the comics, diagrams... they are mostly not adaptable to movies and that was some of what gibbons and moore were thinking about when they wrote it in the 80s.
Two days ago I found one (AMAZING)video that synthesize much of what I feel about the movie, and some stuff that I did not even realize and added a lot. It is called "Watchmen- Adapting The Unadaptable". link is /watch?v=5oltd-Jsi2I
Think you should see it ;)
I agree pretty much.. Its basically like Alan Moore himself says .. comics can do things that movies really can't.. I know some people could say "oh we'll you can show anything in a movie!" but it just doesn't work like that.. Certain things don't translate well to the screen. On that note though I love V for Vendetta and I actually really like From Hell even though it like barely resembles the book lol. And I kinda liked watchmen when it first came out but I just recently watched it again and I didn't like very much.. I can't quite place my finger on why but it just didn't feel "right" to me lol.
Had no idea about I guess his lesser known graphic novels. I'm so glad though, because I had watched League of Extraordinary Gentleman, and thought the movie was terrible, but wished it had been made into graphic novels, because it'd probably be awesome. Dunno why I didn't do more research. But now I will check out! Thanks so much:)
No problem! I'm glad I could be of some help.
Listening to you talk about Alan Moore is enticing.
Very good. Thank you.
Would love to see you get into Caitlin R. Kiernan. In particular, the short story collections as i think they are on a different level from her novels. But mabey you already don't like? Anyway, like your talks.
Even a watered down version of his work ...still elevates consciousness.
Great breakdown. V for Vendetta is my favourite of his. I have a hard time with Watchmen but that is mostly because I'm not familiar with most of the references that it makes to politics and culture. Lived in ignorance of the doomsday clock.
Have you read Promethea?
Thank you! The only reason I understand Watchmen (at all) is because I read it in an English class at Uni, so the references were explained to us.
I have not yet read Promethea, but it's something I have been meaning to read for a while.
A better way to describe LOEG: 18th Century Justice League made up of character from fiction writing.
"it is extremely violent... because it is dealing with prostitutes that are being murdered" LOL brilliant explanation
"if you are not human anymore, then you've lost some of your humanity"
Come on people, we've all been a teenager 🍻
I know it’s been a long time since you’ve reviewed a Comic. But I genuinely think you would really enjoy James Tynion’s work when it comes to horror comics.
good job - nice analysis
it kills me, i wish you would turn over the pages a bit and show em. I love the feel of pages even if it's across the screen :3
Nice video, I love Moore. Subbed.
Gran recomendación me encanta tu video eres bella
From Hell is magnificent, I love its ambition, scale and attention to detail. A guided tour of London by Jack the Ripper, how wonderful is that?!
Flavio Sousa I never thought of it that way but you're right!
If you visit or live in London, be sure to do the Ripper tour. I was in London a few weeks ago whilst I was reading From Hell, so made sure to spent time in Spitalfields and had a drink in the Ten Bells. You get a real feel of what it was like back then. This is possibly my favorite Alan Moore.
I've actually heard conflicting information on what adaptation bothered Alan Moore the most.
I heard one say Matrix, and another say it was Watchmen, and yet another say it was V for Vendetta (even though Moore actually refused to see it according to TV Tropes).
interesting , thanks for the info
man i always loveed moore's work! but i never new he wrote watchmen! thats awesome now thinking about it you can totally tell it's his work and way of story telling if that makes sense... thanks for the info deff giving your video a like and thumbs up!! im now a subscriber
LOVE YOU !!!
make a video on Stephen greenbelt it wiil be lot of thxx u
Have u seen werewolf by night ? I hope they let Michael do swamp thing
great video u have a new subscriber
check out swamp thing thats where gaiman started off as well
Extraordinarily gentlemen
Alan Moore is really great.
You should read The Ballad of Halo Jones
Yall should read Alan Moore's Neonomicon :)
It was great! But i thought it lacked the depth of his most famous works. Still, miles ahead from a simply "good" book!
Talking about the genre of The League, to paraphrase Moore himself, life isn't divided into genres. It's a romantic drama action comedy fantasy thriller with some pornography thrown in.
What's a BookTuber?
He wrote the foreword to my comic 'Creeps and Underdogs' it's on Amazon if you're interested (it's very cheap!) It's political too
What's that under your lip?
MCR DID THE SONG FOR THE WATCHMEN YES YES YES YES
Lovely hair
Love your channel! My only not pick and this is stupid and I'm not trying to be rude. Pretty much all of the Alan Moore comics you review are not "graphic novels." An example of a graphic novel he wrote would be lost girls. Since it is one cohesive narrative that is released complete. Most of Moore's comic work are released in what's called "trade paperbacks." Trade paperbacks are collections that cull every issue of a comic's run and put them into collected volumes. They usually belong to an ongoing series to make it easier for new readers to have past individual comics all together in once convenient book that they can read without having to go to a comic stores back issue bin hoping they find a complete run done by a particular author or story arc. That said keep up your awesome channel!
i am sorry english is not my main language what does pulp ficton mean
Pulp fiction refers to action packed stories made mainly for entertainment purposes. Many early comics and some modern ones fall under this category. What she means by "Alan Moore is more than just a pulp fiction author" is that even though he uses the techniques of pulp writers to grab readers' attention and entertain them, there is also depth to his stories which makes readers think. One can think of comics as the medium through which pulp writing and "serious literature" can meet and of Alan Moore as someone who does that mixture of writing well.
I really liked how you talk. So sober
Thanks! Sober?
orlando mora she takes cocaine for breakfast and heroin for dinner
thinking about buying watchmen, from hell and swamp thing
Those would be excellent buys, especially the first two. Have you read anything yet?
@@mabusestestament froma alan moore, i have read only league of extraordinary gentlemen
My word what is steam punk???
are you going to try to get a complete Alan Moore collection?
Probably not for a little while. These graphic novels are the only ones I have read so far
Thoughts in Books how has your collection grown since?
we need a review of Swamp Thing please, cheers.
Armando chavez I did one recently!: th-cam.com/video/tghgfPSL4Ww/w-d-xo.html
+Thoughts in Books yay!
Alan Moore does comics. Graphics novels are not the same thing. They are only cousin mediums.
Untrue
I kind of like lost girls too.
I wouldn't say the movies are ruined once you read the comic, they are just different things. I enjoy bith the movies and the books for what they are.
my 2 recommendations are promethia and the bojeffries saga
+Robert Munro I'm on the 4th book of Promethea and I have to say it's my favourite of all time.
yeah it pretty much blew my skull off
the way you are is really cute
From Hell is his best book IMHO, it is kind of tough getting through though....that's from the subject matter, not the way he chose to write it.
Aaron Ross I will definitely have to re-read it one of these days. It was very...grotesque...but I think it needed to be for a subject like that.
What do you yhink of Providence?
Any opinion on Lost Girls?
Not yet! Hopefully I will have it read and reviewed soon.
awesome
What about the killing joke?
+Robert Petrie there's not a film based on it yet (and one hadn't even been announced when this video was made).
That's right
steampunk is basically the science fiction from victorian age and their main writers were Jules verne and h g wells so... yeah it is steampunk and sy fy
+Indigo halm I would imagine steampunk is looking back over the Victorian age and modifying it, while science fiction during the Victorian age (Verne and Wells) would have been Sci Fi, no?
+Thoughts in Books true
If you guys like Steam Punky type of stuff I'd reccomend the comic "Monstress" its up to issue 12 or so now and its really good. The world in it is pretty steam punk style mixed with some other elements..and it has beautiful art and pretty cool story and characters.
WATCHMEN has Free Speech Law & Order character, Rorschach, very American vigilante
Alan Moore didn't draw From Hell. He's heavily involved in the artwork of all his books, but he can't get carried away in malicious excitement with his artwork (Mark Millar-style), because it isn't him doing the art. Please forgive any misinterpretation on my part, but that isn't clear with the emphasis you seem to place on that in the From Hell section.
The art was intended to be anatomical, NOT titillating (his thinking was, if anyone was getting anything positive from seeing the consequences of violence in all its horror, this would be an unambiguous reflection on themself, back when this was an effective technique in comics to make a serious point, not the now-ubiquitous trope); and is 'about' the birth of tabloid media power as an extension of the Victorian expressions of power (see: 'architectural oppression'), not the Ripper Murders - that was just the narrative on which the messages had to hang - as narrative, not an empirical history, nor an argument, nor conspiracy theory.
From Hell is gruesome but good.
According to the genius himself, "Promothea" is the work he considers as his best...
Gavrilo Princip It's also the work I keep telling myself I need to read. One day!
hi, i loved your Chanel. You are very pretty. rs.
"Alan Moore has a lot of strong female characters and complex female characters" Can you please go tell that to Gail Simone.
Will you please explain the context?
ur cute!
smart girls are hot
I think it's really telling that snyder comes from a background in advertising, on the discrepancy between the spirit of the comic watchmen, and its dour film version. I felt it was almost like small, slick vignettes for a forthcoming movie, with a more of a focus on perfecting his signature of violence porn, than character development or story. Snyder has also been castigated for, what some think, is a pro-american, imperialist agenda. I would go so far to call his stuff propaganda. With that being said, It's no surprise that most of snyder's repertoire is comprised of frank miller's works, whose works are quite right-wing and misogynistic, and in the case of the horrid 'holy terror', downright xenophobic and bigoted.
To be fair I have only just read FROM HELL. Yes, it is far superior to the movie we got. No, Sir William Gull (the doctor who originally diagnosed Anorexia Nervosa, among other things) was not Jack the Ripper. Nor did Victoria Regina order the murders in order to protect the reputation of her second son, the Duke of Clarence).
But as to Alan, yes, THE WATCHMEN might have actually pleased him a little if he had given it a chance (and taken the money they were offering him...but, he didn't...so there it is).
As for the rest...read Alan's books. Don't waste time on the movies.
Hot chick
just read swamp thing, v for vendetta and watchmen. skip everything else
Ervin Bernardez From Hell is great too
Superman:for the man that has everything is good aswell
disregard OP entirely
You have a huge blackhead on your chin.
Yes, piercings come in black as well.
The books are fantastic, the films are...shite.