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No wonder, then, that the basic task of adaptation was troubled from the start. “You can make a movie with the plot of Watchmen, but it won’t be Watchmen,” says comics critic Douglas Wolk. “You can kind of imitate it, in the same way you can kind of imitate the way Frank Miller drew the comic book 300. But Watchmen wants to be a comic.” (via Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie ) —I seem to have been giving variations on this quote to a lot of people lately

No wonder, then, that the basic task of adaptation was troubled from the start. “You can make a movie with the plot of Watchmen, but it won’t be Watchmen,” says comics critic Douglas Wolk. “You can kind of imitate it, in the same way you can kind of imitate the way Frank Miller drew the comic book 300. But Watchmen wants to be a comic.” (via Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie ) —I seem to have been giving variations on this quote to a lot of people lately