"I wanted this excessive violence".

The cult comic book "Watchmen" was considered unverfilmbar, U.S. director Zack Snyder, it is managed. With blogs online, he talks about death threats from fans, the sense of bloody violence in the cinema - and told his mother about what Super Mans fortress in the arctic white.

 

blogs ONLINE: Mr. Snyder,
You have dared, the cult comic book "Watchmen" adaptation to the Holy Grail of comic book fans. How many death threats have you ever received?

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Scene from "Watchmen": "Cinema can not afford what a comic, but conversely, it is precisely the same"

Snyder: Oh, there were some. But honestly, not so many as when I use the remake of "Dawn of the Dead" turned.

blogs ONLINE: You take quite abandoned.

Snyder: Because it is normal. This belongs to the passionate anger about fan culture, particularly when it comes to works which are so seriously and personally used such as "Watchmen". And what I already do? I carry a weapon at least not if you believe. What I still do not understand is the schizophrenia of supporters: You want one do not, that you filmed your favorite comics, and then again you can not wait. Very strange.

blogs ONLINE: Do you fear the reaction of the cinema audience and the fans on your "Watchmen" version? Not least stand next to your reputation than 100 million U.S. dollars budget to the game.

Snyder: Oh, in these categories, I think not. I am now more about the film to show at last. I'm ready! I'm excited! And also do I want after three years with this film again even other things. It was an affair of the heart that I had nothing, but it is good to be finished.

blogs ONLINE: Is the film, now in the cinemas is your definitive version of "Watchmen"?

Snyder: I would still continue for many years off work. But seriously: There's a Director's Cut, which is three hours long, and an even longer version, an animated addition to the action around the pirate ship, the "Black Freighter", contains. All this will someday appear on DVD. But the slightly shorter version of the cinema is a good thing, as it is and will also work.

blogs ONLINE: Alan Moore, author of the comic strip, has an early stage of each "Watchmen" adaptation dissociates. Did you during the shooting to contact him?

Snyder: No, unfortunately not. He has contacted every verbeten. Although I have a thing or two times tried to speak with him, but I had to bow to the realities. Fortunately we had with the illustrator Dave Gibbons, the other half of the "Watchmen" team in the boat. Dave was very generous with his time and has supported us, wherever he could. That was very cool.

blogs ONLINE: Nevertheless, you need as a fan but particularly from the withdrawal of love Alan Moore's suffering.

Snyder: It does indeed hurt! Maybe we have the movie so faithfully as possible. In order to compensate for his absence.

VIDEOS ON FILM

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"Watchmen"
Trailer and Film Clips

Film clip: "We can save this world"
Film clip: "Our days are numbered '
Film clip: "The superman exists!"

blogs ONLINE: Or to him to prove that it is just yet? Moore has been the end of the eighties, said that his graphic novel for unverfilmbar holds. He started with "Watchmen" just want to show what the medium of comics to the cinema has provided.

Snyder: Movies can not afford what a comic, but conversely, it is just the same. A simple example: Dr. Manhattan is in the template just a vehicle for philosophical sayings, one never gets a proper wire to him. Thanks to the actor Billy Crudup in the film we see is pain and doubt in his face - so ultimately the people behind this same divine nature. So we have given the characters a bit, which is only really good movie, namely emotional depth.

ONLINE blogs: "Watchmen" is a very long, dark and political film about a gang of psychopaths and fetishists. The fans certainly do not scare, but how do you get a mass audience for your movie inspire?

Snyder: I am sure that they initially make no difference between Superman and Dr. Manhattan. That evening they go and say: Let us a superhero movie! And when I do so first lured into the cinema, then, zack!, They see "Watchmen". When I was the comic for the first time read, it was just me. I thought: Cool, a new superhero saga. And then I discovered that it was the exact opposite was - and was thrilled. In this effect, I also hope the mainstream audience. I want the whole subversiveness the template to the canvas transfer.

PERSONAL

Zack Snyder, 1966 in Green Bay, Wisconsin was born, is as a director, the comic book fans trust. His feature film debut of the celebrated former commercials with his visually stunning remake of the zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" (2004). Since its idiosyncratic adaptation of the battle-comics "300" by Frank Miller at Blockbuster, and more than 500 million U.S. dollars followed it, Snyder is believed to be in Hollywood, impossible to perform. So he was allowed in 1986 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created the cult comic book "Watchmen" almost as faithfully filming as he wanted. The supposedly up to 150 million U.S. dollars expensive film has been running since Thursday in the German cinemas.

blogs ONLINE: Among other things, is in "Watchmen" to see how limbs hacked off and how a pregnant woman is shot dead. Had to be so much brutality?

Snyder: If you knew how hard it was, all of the concerns makers of Warner Bros. vorbeizubekommen! But I wanted to go too far, I wanted these exaggerated violence. Nothing is worse than this everyday, aged 13 years and released in violent action films, in which nobody is really hurt and nobody dies. I find that dangerous, especially for the kids. But I want the audience to reach the point at which he presented himself to the enjoyment of the most terrifying scenes caught and asks if something is wrong with him. Then it becomes really interesting, then perhaps he is thinking about the whole other violence, which he in other movies just so consumed as entertainment.

ONLINE blogs: do you want the mainstream cinema with his own weapons. This is actually quite a subversive film, with an enormous marketing campaign and in the U.S. alone with 5000 copies starts.

Snyder: Yes, trippy, huh? But I think it is important to movies like "Watchmen" to make to the way current cinema is made a bit aufzumischen. I think the time is ripe and the audience is ready for an evolution towards more sophisticated material in the genre of comic book adaptations. We have to "Watchmen" is not love, but you should at least take the trouble and appreciate the effort, to create more than mass-produced like "Die Fantastischen Vier".

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blogs ONLINE: Nevertheless, "Watchmen" is not "The Dark Knight." When you called Batman Nite Owl and potency problems. Is not that a bit more pop-cultural irony that you demand from the viewers?

Snyder: Oh, come! Even my mother knows that Superman a "fortress of solitude" in the Arctic has. Or ask anyone on the street, as Peter Parker to Spider-Man was, everyone knows that! Comics have long been part of the current zeitgeist, and much deeper into the mass popular culture rooted than you might think. The people have the reference system on it, they have enough pop-cultural education and political awareness in order to enjoy "Watchmen" to have, I am quite sure. Even if they only Vorblogsung under false pretenses to lure cinema needs.

blogs ONLINE: And what do you do if "Watchmen" still floppt cruel?

Snyder: When we did "300" made, I was sure that we have a pure niche film that only a few hardcore fans would be seen. No one suspected that there was a 500 million U.S. dollars would be harder blockbuster. But it was so. Who knows what happens? As for the comic book fans are concerned, is for me a lot at stake. If this goes wrong and the people hate the movie, I lost my bonus. Then I have for the rest of my life romantic comedies turn.

The interview was conducted by Andreas Borcholte