Sunday, May 22, 2005
Alan Moore - Comic Book Writer
Found a programme on BBC's listen again on Alan Moore, the famous comic book writer. It was a really interesting programme - he comes from Northampton, he sounds relaxed and laid-back. Recounts when he asked his mum to make him a costume with a cape; said costume came with wellington boots. Friends recognised him. He felt perplexed because there is nothing to conceal Clark Kent's identity other than glasses and his distinguishing feature was that he and Clark are the people in town with blue hair!
He spoke of his creation V for Vendetta, pointed out that many British heroes are socios and that "we love a love a gallant rogue and that we also love a gallant, psychotic travesty of a human being".
He got Swamp Thing by virtue of the fact that he had won some obscure British award. Swamp Thing was at all time low and he described him as "Hamlet covered in snot", he found much scope in "this big animate manure pod". Used him to describe "perhaps, if they (the USA) did not generally have so many hand guns, it would be a nice to place to live and they went beserk (US audiences when Moore went on tour)"
Batman: motivation for superheroes "...there aren't any really sensible motivations for dressing as a bat...your parents get killed in front of your eyes that's tough...no one is saying that's difficult and that's traumatic but a bat!"
On Hollywood and its treatment of his work, Lawsuit suggesting that there was plagarising on "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman", it was alleged that the plot was actually the work of some Hollywood scriptwriter. Moore became quite annoyed that he did not want anything to do with film work. He overeacted "no more Hollywood" and that if they do want to do something with his work, he wants his name taken from the work and that the money be given to his team. This is where Moore disowns Constantine and Watchmen in terms of his name been attached to any film made in Holllywood.
I guess you will have to watch those films at your peril.
He spoke of his creation V for Vendetta, pointed out that many British heroes are socios and that "we love a love a gallant rogue and that we also love a gallant, psychotic travesty of a human being".
He got Swamp Thing by virtue of the fact that he had won some obscure British award. Swamp Thing was at all time low and he described him as "Hamlet covered in snot", he found much scope in "this big animate manure pod". Used him to describe "perhaps, if they (the USA) did not generally have so many hand guns, it would be a nice to place to live and they went beserk (US audiences when Moore went on tour)"
Batman: motivation for superheroes "...there aren't any really sensible motivations for dressing as a bat...your parents get killed in front of your eyes that's tough...no one is saying that's difficult and that's traumatic but a bat!"
On Hollywood and its treatment of his work, Lawsuit suggesting that there was plagarising on "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman", it was alleged that the plot was actually the work of some Hollywood scriptwriter. Moore became quite annoyed that he did not want anything to do with film work. He overeacted "no more Hollywood" and that if they do want to do something with his work, he wants his name taken from the work and that the money be given to his team. This is where Moore disowns Constantine and Watchmen in terms of his name been attached to any film made in Holllywood.
I guess you will have to watch those films at your peril.
