Anyone who thinks Alan is "mad" or "crazy" is tragically normal. Mr. Moore is an inspiration and a man of integrity. I only hope I can be seen to be as odd as him one day.
Smelson If you're hoping other people will see Your Uniqueness as a person there's No Need to be Odd or Strange all you have to do is Be Yourself because We Are All Unique people whether we all choose to see each other that way or not.
By definition, normalcy and tragedy are mutually exclusive. And since absurd mental states may precede bursts of creativity, why would calling him "crazy" or "mad" be a pejorative, anyhow? Further, there is nothing particularly tragic, nor deficient, in valuing the mundane. Quite the inverse is true(-er).
"My head is what happens to a human male head when you don't do anything to it for about 30 years." Yes, Alan. Spoken with true Swamp Thing perspective.
Truly incredible. I've heard him describe bits and pieces of this before, but never this is in-depth. Thank you so much for this. Long recording of Alan's voice are incredible to me, not just because of his amazing voice but also because of the content. Inspiring! Thanks so much for this. xx
Scientists, after intense study have concluded that the phrase: "I would rather change my entire life than look stupid," is at the heart of every British comedy.
+MrCool Mug Check out 'Magic Words- The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore' by Lance Parkin for a detailed biography approved by Moore, another one he approves of is 'Alan Moore-Storyteller' by Gary Spencer Millage, a large hardcover with lots of cool rare photos of him and his family and behind the scenes looks at scripts and storyboards etc from his major works. They're both great books.
Two hours well spent. I disagree with some of the things he says about comics, but so what. The first half really is a magical experience, and if it was all in Moore's head, wow, what a head! The second half demonstrates his enormous integrity and groundedness, and his love for Steve Moore. We should all have such a friend.
i saw a program where they got a novelist to try make a graphic novel,she saw how differing they are.i cannot see which parts you would not agree with.ihave read his comiccs since he was with 2000AD.the ppl he has to deal with are real assholes .
a ssimonem I'm not sure what you're getting at with your example. I don't think even Moore would say that all the people he had to deal with were assholes, although the assholes were mainly in charge. I think he respects Karen Berger, for example. As to my disagreements, I disagree with plenty of people I like and admire - don't you?
Alan Dimes just reinforcing what he said about making films from graphic novels ,it would be better if you said what you did not like,but it does not really matter.i do disagree with ppl i like yes.
Fascinating. What he says about magical experience is true, although he understates the dangers. I'm not sure if a lighthearted book on magic ritual is a good idea. It's only a fact that people have been driven mad by it. There is a reason why magic books are generally so hard to read. I guess that's changing now. Then again it's a free world (kind of) and he can do what he wants. I like the way he keeps grounded and rational, but is still brave and imaginative enough to embrace wider concepts. I've never read his work, but will now...
The danger in magick is to the ego. Since we now have a world being run on ego, then spreading magick can only be a good thing. People are already being driven mad by everyday society. Just trying to earn a living and navigate the sea of media-brainwash and black sorcery being pushed at them from all the ruling elites. Spreading lighthearted magick to the common person is not only a good idea, it's the best idea I've heard in a long time. Take a look around.
"New Age" is a marketing ploy or a psyop. Neither applies to my comments. BTW, I think the word you are looking for is "pursuit." Re: your comment: You could say the same thing about falling in love, having friends, or being part of a family, but that fails to cancel out the great joy that is also associated with those things. Levity is as much a part of human experience as gravity. Those who believe otherwise are rightly called "Saturnine." Their actions and karma speak for themselves.
+JEKAZOL you dont HAVE to summon demons to have a spiritual experience you know? Yes, it can be humbling and turn your psyche upside down but if the goal is the great work why not make it light hearted? obscurum per obscuris never helped anyone.
+signoguns it is but atleast he's self aware, he's always chuckling to himself when he's saying something he knows is smug. I think atleast he uses it to fuel the grandiose images he comes up with, not lord it over people.
Weird thing, I went to sleep with TH-cam playing videos about board games and I had a dream that I was in a hotel and the hotel porter insisted that I partake in a magic demonstration for some of the staff in that very same hotel room I had only just checked myself into,, cue bizarre turn of events. Then I woke up and this Alan Moore video / pod cast was playing at the part where he discusses his experiences with 'magic'.
Good interview. Reading Jerusalem at the moment and its such a good read. Its a joy to read. Watchmen was great and interesting to hear his take on the aftermath. Get his swamp thing books.
It's not that Michael looks like a sorcerer, he just is....great little interview. I also love the fact that he stays in his beloved Northampton, because it's the centre of his magical universe.
He is just some dude that I pass in the street. Two martial arts champions I knew as children, don't like this place but I still live here. Strange place
Lifelong fan of Moore and native Texan. He's a God to some of us here. ❤️ I too was in awe as a kid and when League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was released, it was part of a curriculum in one of my English classes at the University of Texas. The point was to connect to the magazine writing of Hardy and Dickens, etc. How you'd have to wait a month for the next chapter. But of course, my professor was vexed when the comic book issue releases came late. 😜
i tried to be a wizard too. i did a year of a chemistry degree because i thought that was like magic, i then did a philosophy degree, i learnt music because thats the closest thing to magic. platos forms, dark chords, the other man who lives in my head
when Moore is describing his spiritual experience, he talks about how he found the entity to be charming, and a bit fun. It's humorous to me that the Goeta explicitly warns that Asmoday is a demon prone to deceive and betray those who call him, if the summoning has not been preformed properly. Furthermore, I suggest everyone google "asmodeus alan moore" to find his beautiful illustration of the entity.
wolfumz I just looked it up and your right, it is amazing. I thought his description of a 4th dimensional entity was amazing too 49:00. Reminded me of Ezekiel's description of the Cherubim "and the living creatures ran and returned as an appearance of a flash of lightening."
Fantastic interview! I think the whole sorry story about Alan vs DC is basically one of art vs business. They're in the business of making money by selling product. Whereas Alan is an artist, poet, gentleman, scholar and magician. Gods bless Alan Moore!
I had an experience like this. I had to forcefully prevent something from forcing itself into my mind. I had to forcefully shout ( in my mind) at it to go away. Then something invisible walked across my bed. It felt like a small creature. I was completely freaked out. I mentioned it work the next day and I found out another engineer had the same experience a month before and vowed he would never stay there ever again. I’ve stayed a lot but it’s a particular room and all of the rooms above it. I did some research and the hotel is built on an old Roman fort! The room is 111 ( and 211 and 311) at the Westerwood in Cumbernauld, Scotland.
Jesus, I just listened to the bit about Glycon. A snake ( a small creature I sensed). It was popular around the same time the Antonine Wall (140 Ad) was built in Scotland and the hotel is next to the wall. Glycon was associated with money and you won’t believe this ( you can google) but people have bought houses in the area to dig up the cellar in search of Roman treasure and have found hoards of gold!!! The houses are built on top of the Antonine Wall!! Please relay this info to Alan.
I only found out about the Watchmen because I heard about the movie, I did read the comic first though so in a way the movie has done some good when it comes to making a new generation of people aware of the comics. Of course the movie wasn't as good as the comic, but if it wasn't for it I never would have known about Alan Moore
And vice versa; Moore and Morrison don't like each other very much. They have been trading public barbs at one another for years. Coincidentally, they are both into magick. So... Wizard battle??
Watchmen is by far the best comic book ever made that even people who hate comics can get into. This is because all the Watchmen characters are more realistic versions of typical comic book heros, AND critical parodies of them at the same time! Night Owl is washed up Batman, Dr Manhattan is a detached inhuman Superman, The Comedian is a brutal sadistic Captain America, Silk Specter is a burnt out Wonder Woman, Rorschach is nihilistic inversion of The Spirit, and Ozymandias serves as the ultimate villain of the piece in so far as he thinks he is doing good, no matter how horrible he is, and how many people he kills, which is the worst kind of evil of all. Thats why its the greatest comic book 'hero' story ever written. And thats why Alan Moore is a genius story teller.
Dr Manhattan is the reverse Superman. Superman is a non-human god who gains humanity. Manhattan is a human who becomes a god and loses his humanity. Rorschach is more Batman: an insane street vigilante who doesn't care how much pain he inflicts on who he considers criminals.
Yes. But you see, I for one don't *believe* in "inverted" superheroes, "washed-up" superheroes, or any such thing. And I don't see the need for them. 😏 (Especially not those devoid of any sense of humour or proportion, rather like their author.) Imo, Alan Moore is a great big bearded charlatan, who has succeeded in fooling a large number of people. 😏 What he has done to comics seems like a giant category mistake. He has basically removed all that is positive, from a basically fairy-tale-like form. If George Lucas had done the same with Star Wars, he would never have been successful Summary: Fans of modern comics need their heads examined! 😏
I was browsing though web mindlessly, since there are no video, and when Moore said "it was a demon", I suddenly realised that whole this time I was heading toward the word "Daemon" I saw in that exact moment , the title of the new album by Mayhem. This google's AI is so clever. Also, when he ended his Asmodeus story, I stumble upon a poster for Asmodexia movie.
No worries buddy. If you're a Morrison fan check out this video on the tube titled, 'Fat Man on Batman: Grant Morrison', it's over 4 hours long mind you but worth it. I listened to it in morsels while I was bungling around the house. =)
@@nachro2190 You would really need to ask Alan Moore that. From a couple of interviews of Moore I read a few years ago, I got the impression Moore didn't think much of Morrison's work and felt Morrison was copying, almost stalking, him. Moore said in the 80s and 90s practically everything he did, Morrison would then do. Moore wrote Watchmen; Morrison then wrote Doom Patrol. Moore wrote Marvelman; Morrison, Zenith. Moore, Killing Joke; Morrison, Arkam Asylum. etc etc. Then Moore got into Magic and soon enough so did Morrison. The final straw for Moore was in an interview he mentioned an idea he was tossing around for a new story and less than a month later Morrison talked about the same idea, as if it was his own. Morrison also talked a lot about how much he would love working with Moore and how they'd been in contact. According to Moore, he barely knew Morrison and had only met a couple of times professionally. Imo, I felt Grant Morrison at that time just as he was starting out was in awe of Alan Moore and became a bit of an obsessive fanboi, and this turned Moore off Morrison completely.
Odd that they didn't disclose if he was on drugs during that vision. Knowing that he had some mushroom for his other vision that he talked about in another video, I could only assume he took the same kind of mushroom for this "magick" meeting.
Why can't DC bury the hatchet and give the Watchmen wrights back to Dave and Alan so he doesn't think DC is the worst thing ever it really does break my heart that my favorite publisher and writer are never going to come to terms with this
+David Whittaker wtf I don't know how to feel about this. If I was Alan Moore I would hate this and I also kinda don't like this because it's so counterintuitive to every thing Watchmen is.
give him the rights to the character Constantine as well. and then he should give the rights to Image Comics so it can have the Vertigo feel the new versions are missing, or do it himself if he wants to (IMAGINE a Hellblazer run with Alan Fucking Moore- damn that would be cool)
DC are a private company whose main focus is making money. Why would they give up one of their cash cows, just to be nice to some weird old bearded bloke with an odd accent?
Regarding the 2nd interview, I wish he would have learned to record all verbal comms with these vultures. Creatives are far too gentle. It kills me, it really does.
Why into 2 parts? It covered the relevant points for it's run time excluding the squid scenes, which I think was wise to cut out as the general movie audience may have gotten lost with the movie. Studios tend to split films to if they fell they can make more money from it. E.g. Boring Hobbit, Hunger Crap Games and others.
+CosmicUndeadElf the whole look was off. He made the action look like matrix and made the costumes "cool" when that was decidedly NOT the original intention. The action should have looked like it did in SUPER, goofy most of the time and gory and horrible when it was too much, it was never supposed to be cool.
Alan Moore is a very intriguing character. I discovered him very recently on TH-cam when he interviewed the comedian Stewart Lee, who is incidently both an atheist as well as a member of the Humanist society. Two things I have noticed about many good comedians, is that they are; 1. Invariably very intelligent 2. Usually atheists. Stewart Lee (who I think, is a brilliant comedian) is no exception. I am convinced that Mr. Moore is talking about a very real and authentic experience (I am a Christian and believe in both angels and demons). I also believe that the Holy Bible is the Word of God.
Do you guys really think that Alan has NEVER watched one of the movies from his books? If I was him the curiousity would KILL ME i know I would end up watching it.. But he has a lotta good points about comics not really translating well to the big screen although I'll admit I enjoyed From Hell, V for Vendetta and The Watchmen.. I actually really liked the WAtchmen film at first but watching it now I see a lot problems and flaws with it. I still really like From Hell though although basically everything in the book is left out. But the From Hell movie has a great atmosphere in my opinion.
He probably has, but, honestly, as separate entities these movies are pretty cool. As adaptations, they celebrate those who aren't really to be celebrated and focus on premises and characters that weren't the most important or relevant perspectives that the comics were trying to get across. In V for Vendetta, race consciousness was kind of glossed over. Guy Fawkes was a symbol of catholic totalitarianism. From Hell focused too much on the detective and far less on Jack the Ripper. Watchmen was a warning against omniscient heros with the power to direct our lives without question or oversight. So I can understand his disdain as a creator.
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17 years later the Bumper Book of Magic is finally coming out Oct 2024
U better not be lying
@@benjipkcrew That's what I heard, I hope I'm not lying either. I've been waiting years...
It's out! Thanks for the heads up
@@benjipkcrew I just got my copy, now go get yours!
Got myself a copy! Halfway through and love it!! Hadn’t even heard of Alan Moore. This man is brilliant though!
Fierce in appearance, Alan Moore comes across as one of the gentlest souls ever. One of the oldest and wisest too.
Snap out of it agreed
Word
Agreed. He is a on the good side of morality
Yup
He looks scary
Anyone who thinks Alan is "mad" or "crazy" is tragically normal.
Mr. Moore is an inspiration and a man of integrity. I only hope I can be seen to be as odd as him one day.
Smelson If you're hoping other people will see Your Uniqueness as a person there's No Need to be Odd or Strange all you have to do is
Be Yourself because We Are All Unique people whether we all choose to see each other that way or not.
@@micaylab1 Any one of us thinking we are truly unique is a byproduct of our ego.
He’s made me think deeply about things.
By definition, normalcy and tragedy are mutually exclusive.
And since absurd mental states may precede bursts of creativity, why would calling him "crazy" or "mad" be a pejorative, anyhow?
Further, there is nothing particularly tragic, nor deficient, in valuing the mundane. Quite the inverse is true(-er).
@@micaylab1 stfu
That was far and away the most interesting interview I have ever listened to
Say what you want about this man. I think he is a genius.
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Amazingly prescient about the state of politics in the UK. He tells stories with meaning and passion and he is brilliant at what he does.
Only an idiot would think that
Highly over-rated!
@oneoflokis watchmen, Vendetta and Swamp Thing run are enough to make him one for the ages in my book.
Each to their own.
🔥
"My head is what happens to a human male head when you don't do anything to it for about 30 years." Yes, Alan. Spoken with true Swamp Thing perspective.
He forgot smoking LOL
Alan Moore is a goddamn wizard
Creativity is magic
+Drew Davis release the book
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And now he's liberal giveup unlike neal adams
@ didn’t neal rape someone?
"Get up to anything interesting last night, Alan?"
"Chatted with a demon who was good at maths and learned about the fourth dimension. And you?"
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@@adityabhadkamkar8041 fuck off.
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This is a remarkable interview. At some point round 30 minutes Alan Moore hijacks the interview and the interviewer is completely silent in awe of him
Truly incredible. I've heard him describe bits and pieces of this before, but never this is in-depth. Thank you so much for this. Long recording of Alan's voice are incredible to me, not just because of his amazing voice but also because of the content. Inspiring! Thanks so much for this. xx
Scientists, after intense study have concluded that the phrase: "I would rather change my entire life than look stupid," is at the heart of every British comedy.
This has to be the best interview I’ve ever come across.
For real. This is still one of the most interesting things I’ve ever listened to
Fascinating interview ☺️ ... Mesmerizing to hear Mr.Moore speak.
I would love to read Alan's biography. He should really write one.
+MrCool Mug Check out 'Magic Words- The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore' by Lance Parkin for a detailed biography approved by Moore, another one he approves of is 'Alan Moore-Storyteller' by Gary Spencer Millage, a large hardcover with lots of cool rare photos of him and his family and behind the scenes looks at scripts and storyboards etc from his major works. They're both great books.
He wrote sort of a selfportrait in chapter 2 of "Vernall's Inquest" the third and final part of Jerusalem. Great book.
I was just gonna say, read Jerusalem. It’s got his entire family history.
Mentally refreshing,great interview.beautiful.
Two hours well spent. I disagree with some of the things he says about comics, but so what. The first half really is a magical experience, and if it was all in Moore's head, wow, what a head! The second half demonstrates his enormous integrity and groundedness, and his love for Steve Moore. We should all have such a friend.
i saw a program where they got a novelist to try make a graphic novel,she saw how differing they are.i cannot see which parts you would not agree with.ihave read his comiccs since he was with 2000AD.the ppl he has to deal with are real assholes .
a ssimonem I'm not sure what you're getting at with your example. I don't think even Moore would say that all the people he had to deal with were assholes, although the assholes were mainly in charge. I think he respects Karen Berger, for example. As to my disagreements, I disagree with plenty of people I like and admire - don't you?
Alan Dimes
just reinforcing what he said about making films from graphic novels ,it would be better if you said what you did not like,but it does not really matter.i do disagree with ppl i like yes.
Thanks for posting this... Helps me understand my own experiences...
Fascinating. What he says about magical experience is true, although he understates the dangers. I'm not sure if a lighthearted book on magic ritual is a good idea. It's only a fact that people have been driven mad by it. There is a reason why magic books are generally so hard to read. I guess that's changing now. Then again it's a free world (kind of) and he can do what he wants. I like the way he keeps grounded and rational, but is still brave and imaginative enough to embrace wider concepts. I've never read his work, but will now...
The danger in magick is to the ego.
Since we now have a world being run on ego, then spreading magick can only be a good thing. People are already being driven mad by everyday society. Just trying to earn a living and navigate the sea of media-brainwash and black sorcery being pushed at them from all the ruling elites.
Spreading lighthearted magick to the common person is not only a good idea, it's the best idea I've heard in a long time. Take a look around.
That's new age talk. Talking to disembodied entities isn't a light-hearted persuit.
"New Age" is a marketing ploy or a psyop. Neither applies to my comments.
BTW, I think the word you are looking for is "pursuit."
Re: your comment: You could say the same thing about falling in love, having friends, or being part of a family, but that fails to cancel out the great joy that is also associated with those things.
Levity is as much a part of human experience as gravity. Those who believe otherwise are rightly called "Saturnine." Their actions and karma speak for themselves.
+JEKAZOL you dont HAVE to summon demons to have a spiritual experience you know? Yes, it can be humbling and turn your psyche upside down but if the goal is the great work why not make it light hearted? obscurum per obscuris never helped anyone.
+signoguns it is but atleast he's self aware, he's always chuckling to himself when he's saying something he knows is smug. I think atleast he uses it to fuel the grandiose images he comes up with, not lord it over people.
Alan Moore...The Godfather of Comic Literature
I love this interview,a multi faceted individual...honest and unabashed Alan Moore..love it
Alan Moore sounds like what I expect a wizard would sound
This is like getting to sit at papa's feet and hearing a story of the utmost importance.
Alan Moore knows the score
Weird thing, I went to sleep with TH-cam playing videos about board games and I had a dream that I was in a hotel and the hotel porter insisted that I partake in a magic demonstration for some of the staff in that very same hotel room I had only just checked myself into,, cue bizarre turn of events. Then I woke up and this Alan Moore video / pod cast was playing at the part where he discusses his experiences with 'magic'.
Synchronicity! 😄
Started reading Alan Moore with V for Vendetta, as a long term fan of social/political commentary. Loved it, and read everything else he made.
Why people would think nonsense like that is "political commentary"... 🙄🙄
He's talking about that time in the 80's that included Watchman, Dark Knight & Akira
I love how hes self aware of what we are thinking and he seems to just be fucking with us
this was an incredible interview yall!
Good interview. Reading Jerusalem at the moment and its such a good read. Its a joy to read. Watchmen was great and interesting to hear his take on the aftermath. Get his swamp thing books.
I jumped the gun and asked if anyone had read Jerusalem? Have you had a chance to finish it?
I just started reading it as well! It's mighty lengthy but im very excited to dive into this!
It's not that Michael looks like a sorcerer, he just is....great little interview. I also love the fact that he stays in his beloved Northampton, because it's the centre of his magical universe.
He is just some dude that I pass in the street. Two martial arts champions I knew as children, don't like this place but I still live here. Strange place
Magick: It's All In Your Head ...
You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is...
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Lifelong fan of Moore and native Texan. He's a God to some of us here. ❤️ I too was in awe as a kid and when League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was released, it was part of a curriculum in one of my English classes at the University of Texas. The point was to connect to the magazine writing of Hardy and Dickens, etc. How you'd have to wait a month for the next chapter. But of course, my professor was vexed when the comic book issue releases came late. 😜
i tried to be a wizard too. i did a year of a chemistry degree because i thought that was like magic, i then did a philosophy degree, i learnt music because thats the closest thing to magic. platos forms, dark chords, the other man who lives in my head
Best interview EVER!
Alan Moore..............Love your integrity.
this is great. Thanks.
Ha!! Had a moment of weirdness when my name Jeff Barton was mentioned.
Alas, I'm not the same Jeff Barton 😕
Connections are EVERYWHERE
did anyone else notice the people in the video? if you stare at it for a while images of people start appearing.
I always expected Alan Moore to be a grumpy, bitter old dude. This is a remarkably nice surprise.
Alan Moore and The Onion: two of my biggest influences!
Him- "You're a scary fucking dude."
Moore "I don't think so..."
when Moore is describing his spiritual experience, he talks about how he found the entity to be charming, and a bit fun. It's humorous to me that the Goeta explicitly warns that Asmoday is a demon prone to deceive and betray those who call him, if the summoning has not been preformed properly. Furthermore, I suggest everyone google "asmodeus alan moore" to find his beautiful illustration of the entity.
wolfumz I just looked it up and your right, it is amazing. I thought his description of a 4th dimensional entity was amazing too 49:00. Reminded me of Ezekiel's description of the Cherubim "and the living creatures ran and returned as an appearance of a flash of lightening."
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Thank you!
oyyyy like the way Alan moore speaks.
one of my favourite people
It's not THE Watchmen.
Has anyone read Mr More's 2016 novel Jerusalem?
eddie b currently reading it now. It’s a real tome but I’m enjoying it.
Fantastic interview!
I think the whole sorry story about Alan vs DC is basically one of art vs business. They're in the business of making money by selling product. Whereas Alan is an artist, poet, gentleman, scholar and magician.
Gods bless Alan Moore!
well, who *hasn't* seen the odd jeweled toad or two?
I had an experience like this. I had to forcefully prevent something from forcing itself into my mind. I had to forcefully shout ( in my mind) at it to go away. Then something invisible walked across my bed. It felt like a small creature. I was completely freaked out. I mentioned it work the next day and I found out another engineer had the same experience a month before and vowed he would never stay there ever again. I’ve stayed a lot but it’s a particular room and all of the rooms above it. I did some research and the hotel is built on an old Roman fort!
The room is 111 ( and 211 and 311) at the Westerwood in Cumbernauld, Scotland.
Jesus, I just listened to the bit about Glycon. A snake ( a small creature I sensed). It was popular around the same time the Antonine Wall (140 Ad) was built in Scotland and the hotel is next to the wall. Glycon was associated with money and you won’t believe this ( you can google) but people have bought houses in the area to dig up the cellar in search of Roman treasure and have found hoards of gold!!! The houses are built on top of the Antonine Wall!!
Please relay this info to Alan.
Greatest Comics Writer Ever
1980's graphic novels, Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One.) Both of them are now Full Feature Animated Movies.
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I only found out about the Watchmen because I heard about the movie, I did read the comic first though so in a way the movie has done some good when it comes to making a new generation of people aware of the comics. Of course the movie wasn't as good as the comic, but if it wasn't for it I never would have known about Alan Moore
I would love to see a joint interview with Alejondro Jodorowsky, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore talk about funky shit for 2-3 hours.
That would be the trifecta of great interviews and more important than any political interviews.
@@rodrickoftaokingdom1557 get david lynch to moderate, itd be like having a fever dream lol
Morrison would just poorly repeat everything Moore said.
Well... seeing as Moore has stated his extreme disdain for Morrison...
And vice versa; Moore and Morrison don't like each other very much. They have been trading public barbs at one another for years.
Coincidentally, they are both into magick. So... Wizard battle??
I think the spell he cast a few years ago with that series of comics; to start an apocalypse, is actualy is working...
Watchmen is by far the best comic book ever made that even people who hate comics can get into.
This is because all the Watchmen characters are more realistic versions of typical comic book heros, AND critical parodies of them at the same time!
Night Owl is washed up Batman, Dr Manhattan is a detached inhuman Superman, The Comedian is a brutal sadistic Captain America, Silk Specter is a burnt out Wonder Woman, Rorschach is nihilistic inversion of The Spirit, and Ozymandias serves as the ultimate villain of the piece in so far as he thinks he is doing good, no matter how horrible he is, and how many people he kills, which is the worst kind of evil of all.
Thats why its the greatest comic book 'hero' story ever written. And thats why Alan Moore is a genius story teller.
Couldn't agree more if my life depended on it. Hear hear.
Dr Manhattan is the reverse Superman.
Superman is a non-human god who gains humanity.
Manhattan is a human who becomes a god and loses his humanity.
Rorschach is more Batman: an insane street vigilante who doesn't care how much pain he inflicts on who he considers criminals.
Yes. But you see, I for one don't *believe* in "inverted" superheroes, "washed-up" superheroes, or any such thing. And I don't see the need for them. 😏 (Especially not those devoid of any sense of humour or proportion, rather like their author.)
Imo, Alan Moore is a great big bearded charlatan, who has succeeded in fooling a large number of people. 😏
What he has done to comics seems like a giant category mistake. He has basically removed all that is positive, from a basically fairy-tale-like form. If George Lucas had done the same with Star Wars, he would never have been successful
Summary: Fans of modern comics need their heads examined! 😏
@@smoogBatman never USED to be like that.😏
We experience magick everyday, we are just not aware of it...
30 years man..
I wish I had that kind of beard it's awesome
I was browsing though web mindlessly, since there are no video, and when Moore said "it was a demon", I suddenly realised that whole this time I was heading toward the word "Daemon" I saw in that exact moment , the title of the new album by Mayhem. This google's AI is so clever. Also, when he ended his Asmodeus story, I stumble upon a poster for Asmodexia movie.
When is that “bumper book of magic” book coming out?! Anyone know?
john Carlos it's been in the works for ages, apparently it's a tome
john Carlos I spoke to Alan’s daughter on Facebook recently and she said the book is still apparently in the works.
nouns writing time
33:00 the state was DMT, I'm guessing. Or, given the time frames, maybe LSD. He keeps on trying to say it, but stops at every turn.
21:55 "Well that's a rough approximation of the truth..." - Alan Moore
"Alan Moore knows the score" - Pop Will Eat Itself.
***** You are not alone. =)
No worries buddy. If you're a Morrison fan check out this video on the tube titled, 'Fat Man on Batman: Grant Morrison', it's over 4 hours long mind you but worth it. I listened to it in morsels while I was bungling around the house. =)
"Pop Will Eat Itself."- David Bowie
Can you dig it?
"You are a Plonker" - Me, to You.
Alan Moore describing an acid/lsd/mushrooms experience, brilliant.
now this is interesting and not just some crazy nervous talk like the one with Grant Morrison.
Grant is a bit of a twat so...
Moore is very dismissive of Morrison.
@@smoog apologies for the weird timing, but I am curious as to why Moore is so dismissive of Morrison
@@nachro2190 You would really need to ask Alan Moore that.
From a couple of interviews of Moore I read a few years ago, I got the impression Moore didn't think much of Morrison's work and felt Morrison was copying, almost stalking, him.
Moore said in the 80s and 90s practically everything he did, Morrison would then do.
Moore wrote Watchmen; Morrison then wrote Doom Patrol. Moore wrote Marvelman; Morrison, Zenith. Moore, Killing Joke; Morrison, Arkam Asylum. etc etc.
Then Moore got into Magic and soon enough so did Morrison.
The final straw for Moore was in an interview he mentioned an idea he was tossing around for a new story and less than a month later Morrison talked about the same idea, as if it was his own.
Morrison also talked a lot about how much he would love working with Moore and how they'd been in contact. According to Moore, he barely knew Morrison and had only met a couple of times professionally.
Imo, I felt Grant Morrison at that time just as he was starting out was in awe of Alan Moore and became a bit of an obsessive fanboi, and this turned Moore off Morrison completely.
Talking about the front cover picture
Alan Moore is the shit! Nuff said. ;)
So the book is fallout 4 ?
21:43 Magic
Odd that they didn't disclose if he was on drugs during that vision. Knowing that he had some mushroom for his other vision that he talked about in another video, I could only assume he took the same kind of mushroom for this "magick" meeting.
Why can't DC bury the hatchet and give the Watchmen wrights back to Dave and Alan so he doesn't think DC is the worst thing ever it really does break my heart that my favorite publisher and writer are never going to come to terms with this
+Nicholas Katsikas check out the DC Rebirth spoilers for the hatchet's current status.
+David Whittaker wtf I don't know how to feel about this. If I was Alan Moore I would hate this and I also kinda don't like this because it's so counterintuitive to every thing Watchmen is.
give him the rights to the character Constantine as well. and then he should give the rights to Image Comics so it can have the Vertigo feel the new versions are missing, or do it himself if he wants to (IMAGINE a Hellblazer run with Alan Fucking Moore- damn that would be cool)
DC are a private company whose main focus is making money.
Why would they give up one of their cash cows, just to be nice to some weird old bearded bloke with an odd accent?
why u keep interrupting him for real
1:09:30 part2 starts
I'm eternally baffled by self professed fans who continually refer to it as "The Watchmen"
35:00 Contact with the ninth Duke.
51:14 - "(The Three Dimensions are) "Forward, Backward, Left, Right, Up, Down..." "
I spat out my tea. Lulzarama.
Length Width and Depth are a perfectly sound scientific example of 3 dimensional space. How fucking stupid are you?
I laughed my head off at the 'drive-by shooting in my beard joke' the humour was lost on the interviewer though...
Oh lord you are the ultimate super Hero Alan Moore.
Kerrrrrrrang!
He was talking to It.
A quick wiki search revealed that what he said about Asmodeus is accurate so... good?
colours and shapes.
Is this the unedited version?
Never mind it is unedited.
@@Kyleology yes but is it unedited?
Gandolf?
The Goetic demon, Bael has the head of a toad. Not Asmoday. Neither are Dukes according to the Lesser Key of Solomon.
Of course the demon was charming. That's how they work.
Yea. He's Scorpio and worships a Snake God. Brilliant!
It’s like Moon Knight! Whole heartedly believe him, this world is strange and confusing
DUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEE.
This video had a crazy synchronicity for my day today. Asmodeus. I wont go into anymore than that.
We would have been good friends.
Regarding the 2nd interview, I wish he would have learned to record all verbal comms with these vultures. Creatives are far too gentle. It kills me, it really does.
I think the Watchmen movie would have been better if it was split into 2 parts
Why into 2 parts? It covered the relevant points for it's run time excluding the squid scenes, which I think was wise to cut out as the general movie audience may have gotten lost with the movie.
Studios tend to split films to if they fell they can make more money from it. E.g. Boring Hobbit, Hunger Crap Games and others.
egliptor Yeah that's true
+CosmicUndeadElf the whole look was off. He made the action look like matrix and made the costumes "cool" when that was decidedly NOT the original intention. The action should have looked like it did in SUPER, goofy most of the time and gory and horrible when it was too much, it was never supposed to be cool.
you shut your mouth. zack snyder is garbage.
Alan Moore is a very intriguing character.
I discovered him very recently on TH-cam when he interviewed the comedian Stewart Lee, who is incidently both an atheist as well as a member of the Humanist society.
Two things I have noticed about many good comedians, is that they are;
1. Invariably very intelligent
2. Usually atheists.
Stewart Lee (who I think, is a brilliant comedian) is no exception.
I am convinced that Mr. Moore is talking about a very real and authentic experience (I am a Christian and believe in both angels and demons).
I also believe that the Holy Bible is the Word of God.
Then you believe a load-of-old-rubbish.
The dukes of hazard?
57:00
Flatland & the 4th Dimension - Carl Sagan
th-cam.com/video/iiWKq57uAlk/w-d-xo.html
Do you guys really think that Alan has NEVER watched one of the movies from his books? If I was him the curiousity would KILL ME i know I would end up watching it.. But he has a lotta good points about comics not really translating well to the big screen although I'll admit I enjoyed From Hell, V for Vendetta and The Watchmen.. I actually really liked the WAtchmen film at first but watching it now I see a lot problems and flaws with it. I still really like From Hell though although basically everything in the book is left out. But the From Hell movie has a great atmosphere in my opinion.
He probably has, but, honestly, as separate entities these movies are pretty cool. As adaptations, they celebrate those who aren't really to be celebrated and focus on premises and characters that weren't the most important or relevant perspectives that the comics were trying to get across. In V for Vendetta, race consciousness was kind of glossed over. Guy Fawkes was a symbol of catholic totalitarianism. From Hell focused too much on the detective and far less on Jack the Ripper. Watchmen was a warning against omniscient heros with the power to direct our lives without question or oversight. So I can understand his disdain as a creator.
I love unpretentious witches
Mr Beardie is NO witch! He's not a neopagan either. 😏
@juul, 21:18.