This chapter is perfectly symmetrical! The beginning scenes of this chapter correspond perfectly with the end. If you watch (read) carefully, all the parts of this chapter are utterly symmetrical. Imagine this chapter as one big symmetrical picture with the center being the assasination attempt on adrien. It is truly breathtaking how complex and genius alan moore and david gibbons created it. Fearful Symmetry. Appropriate name.
I went back to look at the original chapter to verify this symmetry (I never saw it before)...goddamn, it's utterly genius and eerie how the layout of the second half of the chapter is a mirrors the first half! Hell, the opening and ending bookend that symmetry with both being set at Moloch's place.
I know I’m here 8 years later, but also since the symmetry story wise I’m this chapter starts and ends with Rorschach. The mask that Rorschach wears is also symmetrical.
@@lordphoenix9783 For him inflicting violence on criminals, but also seeing the fear and despair in their face is what makes him happy, so finding an attempted rapist/mugger as soon as he puts on 'his face' is very lucky for him, the night or fate being generous to him.
"My spotless gloves" visibly caked in dirt. I love how the reader is following someone who is clearly an unreliable narrator and contradicts himself often yet in the end he's still right about so much.
@Adrian Naranjo Also note how his protest against the Keene Act is to capture and deliver a rapist to the police - but then he tries to defend Eddie for the same crime later because he likes him. Rorschach isn't exactly the highly principled badass a lot of fans think.
I really like that 'raw shark' bit. Any other writer would have had the characters say "It's Rorschach, let's go", but not here. Alan Moore excepts just a little more from his readers than most do, and I fucking love that.
Brilliant minor detail to explain how Ozymandias break into Jacobi´s house: The brand of the lock is Gordian Knot, probably another company related to Veidt.
Or y'know it might be because he's furious and all his facial muscles are tensed up and he was just kicked in the head and has a bloody nose, scratches all over his face, and more.
@Van H. Depends on what you mean by "need". If you don't think it's needed to account for what's normal in a motion comic, then sure, I suppose there's "no need".
@@lepapanouwel4663 Nothing really major (as far as I can tell), but some lines and dialogue is either switched around to be said on different panels or during different actions, or omitted entirely. Also, Dominique's shoe at the crime scene has Snoopy on it. It was changed to a flower, either in other reprintings, or specifically DC's motion comic.
Not sure if you care 6 years later (or if RU-vid will notify you of this response) But to my understanding, it's all self composed www.imdb.com/title/tt1322240/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1
One thing is left out of this adaptation: THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER IS SYMMETRICAL. That's right, the first page mirrors the last page, the second page mirrors the second-to-last page, et cetera. The center 2 pages are a symmetrical spread. Read about it here: medium.com/@pedrovribeiro/fearful-symmetry-almost-frame-by-frame-9a20c77651bd
Lol 23:19 they kick his ass after rorschach jumps out the window. Never would have guessed. Also liked that spirtitual journey irony before the woman dies.
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I think Rorschach's frame was done more better in the movie. Every breath he's taking to get out of being arrested only the result screaming at the top of his lungs having his 'face' being taken off him, like to him it's severe flesh wound.
Interesting idea but by putting this comic in constant motion and each individual panel taking up the full screen, you lose the sense of the panel size, the placement of the panels on the page, and the original framing, all of which were deliberate artistic choices by Moore and Gibbons and especially important in this chapter. It's part of what made Watchmen so unique, the fact that it did artistic things that only a comic book could do and which couldn't be replicated in other mediums like novels, film or music.
Montezuma it’s a motion comic as said in the title it’s supposed to bridge the gap between animation and reading a comic book I think it did it’s job very well
I cant even, Rorschach is a GOD. Who hide's in a fridge then breaks in again and KNOW's you're gonna look for them in the fridge so they leave a note to fuck with you AGAIN.
well he didn't grow up with a formal education so he's really just as raw as his english personality wise kinda shows you without the fluff in life like someone who does and being as educated as Veidt who seems like the good guy gives you the false perspective of the truths of one's own life. Rorschach gritty, raw, ugly, the truth, Ozymandias, clean, precise, orchrestrated, hidden in his ways.
It's really more of a mental thing. It's shown in the flashback meeting of the Crimebusters that Rorschach used to speak like a normal person in complete sentences. It's implied that he didn't develop the stunted speech patterns he has now until after years of traumatic cases fighting crime, like when he killed the pedophile dude.
@@Proyoska but thats not true, he went to school in the Foundation that took care of him after his mom lost the custody and the reports said he was smart and good at some sports. He's not dumb or uneducated, it seems he started to speak like this after that little girls kidnapping and murder
19:40 Those messiahs were not messiahs for America. They were messiahs to their own people. Jesus preached to Jews in Palestine, Buddha spoke in Chinese, Muhammed was an Arab. What the United States needs is a hero of their caliber. Some say our business philanthropists fit the bill-think Bill Gates.
Guy Basil not necessarily if you ask any of those religions if they believe there messiah is real they’ll say yes if u ask an American if cap is real you won’t get the same answer
13:25 The difference between the movie and the comic Is that while ozymandias is trying to take down the shooter that woman reporter actually gets shot in the leg while Ozymandias takes down the shooter in slow motion in The movie all I'm saying is that the reporter basically survived the shooting even though she got shot in the leg
