"Why does one death matter against the lives of so many? Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon: I will not compromise in this." - Rorschach
This montage series was one plagued with delays and hiatuses between the unnecessary revamp of MySpace.com last November (which effectively destroyed my original blog page there which lead me to rebuilding it here instead) and my own, personal, hardware problems with my laptop which took months to fix unfortunately. But, as always, I somehow or another managed to complete the entire project eventually and I'm very glad that I did! It was way more than a pleasure to create despite the obstacles that kept me from zooming straight through the project like a breeze the way I would've under more usual circumstances.
The "Watchmen" characters were unique to work on in the sense that they're not really characters at all from a philosphical point of view as much as they are several different and individual ideological microcosms of their respective stances on the moral spectrum - just the way that Alan Moore envisioned them to be from their very conception on the page; Rorschach is the anti-social conservative who refuses to compromise to a deadly fault, Nite Owl II is the good-hearted everyman who is caught in a very bad situation (or overall life, I guess I should say), Silk Spectre II is the independent-yet-confused young woman who's still searching for her rightful place in the grizzly world that she's found herself living in, The Comedian is the reformed monster with a secret heart of gold, Ozymandias is the misguided idealist with a deadly God complex, and lastly but surely not least: There's Dr. Manhattan - the cynical omnipresent deity with a decaying soul for sale. And by the end of the story, of course, our heroes are left in stripped-down ruins to look at themselves and their everyday decisions of the past and of the present from the inside-out as their actions mold the entire future of the world around them - usually for the most counter-productive worst - it ironically seems.
The "Watchmen" characters were unique to work on in the sense that they're not really characters at all from a philosphical point of view as much as they are several different and individual ideological microcosms of their respective stances on the moral spectrum - just the way that Alan Moore envisioned them to be from their very conception on the page; Rorschach is the anti-social conservative who refuses to compromise to a deadly fault, Nite Owl II is the good-hearted everyman who is caught in a very bad situation (or overall life, I guess I should say), Silk Spectre II is the independent-yet-confused young woman who's still searching for her rightful place in the grizzly world that she's found herself living in, The Comedian is the reformed monster with a secret heart of gold, Ozymandias is the misguided idealist with a deadly God complex, and lastly but surely not least: There's Dr. Manhattan - the cynical omnipresent deity with a decaying soul for sale. And by the end of the story, of course, our heroes are left in stripped-down ruins to look at themselves and their everyday decisions of the past and of the present from the inside-out as their actions mold the entire future of the world around them - usually for the most counter-productive worst - it ironically seems.
With this series, though, I wanted to try something new music-wise and so I made the choice to use a single track from Nine Inch Nails' classic dystopian concept album "Year Zero" for each of the characters. A decision of which seemed to have spoken to the characters, themselves, as well as to my very own personal tastes simultaneously. Whether it all worked out or not? I'll leave that entirely up to you to decide....
Comedian: HERE
Rorschach: HERE
Dr. Manhattan: HERE
No compromise.... nothing ever ends.
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