If you’ve read the original “Watchmen” graphic novel, you know it’s filled with adult language and adult situations–including some very intimate moments between several of our heroes.
As we’ve previously reported, director Zack Snyder has been very faithful in bringing the graphic novel to life. But one big question on many fans minds may be–how faithful?
Specifically, how is Sndyer handling several intimate scenes from the popular graphic novel?
According to io9, writer Alex Tse said one particularily hot and heavy scene between the second Silk Spectre and the second Nite Owl had to be included and that “”Zack ran with that one.”
“The end result is beautiful and done in a classy manner, it’s really sexy and amazing,” said actress Malin Akerman, who plays the Silk Spectre. “You need to check it out to see if it’s gratuitous or not. I feel like this is such a beautiful scene. And I know you’ll be surprised when I say he’s very respectful, because he’s usually not [Laughs].”
“The set was amazing, they made it as comfortable as possible,” she continued. “And you know sitting there half naked, it’s never the most comfortable thing, no matter who you’re with. Of course, it’s a big deal in a sense. But it’s also the whole film is sort of the extent of what you go to as human nature, and that’s part of what we do as people. You fall in love, and you make love. If it’s done beautifully, I’m in.”
Actor Patrick Wilson, who plays Nite Owl concurred.
“We talked with Zack about how he wanted to shoot, specifically, the sex scene in the Owl Ship, and what he wanted to show, and what he wanted to show about the characters,” he said. “In the end, yes, not only is it beautiful and classy and visually interesting, it’s also funny and a great release (ha ha ha, pun intended).”
” But that’s sort of the point of it all. I sat there with my wife and we were both sort of astonished and laughing. She literally high-fived me at the end of the scene. [Laughs] Because it was so important for those characters. Honestly it felt like you were sort of cheering like, ‘thank god,'” he added.
And the other side of it is, you never see it in these types of movies. It’s not just the nudity, but you never see it, and that’s the thing with this script and this movie that you try to, without being presumptuous about it, the whole point of this comic, when it came out, was going as far as you can in that genre,” said Wilson. “I feel like that is what this movie does. It goes that far with violence, it should go that far with the love scenes, and that far with the language and that far with the humor. I think that’s sort of the point of what you’re aiming for, and I’d like to think that’s what they were aiming for when they wrote the comic.”
“Watchmen” opens in theaters and IMAX on Friday, March 6.
I’m sorry…Second Night Owl? Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder?
I may need to re-read my graphic novel, but I do think that there were two Nite Owls, the second one being the protege of the first (as opposed to a child of, as was the case with Silk Spectre).
Of course I could quite possibly be wrong and talking directly out my ass. I’m sure someone will correct me if that’s the case.
Yeah, the old guy, Hollis I think, was the first Night Owl.