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| Year: | 2009 |
| Rating: | 7.8(131869) |
| Listed in: | Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Zack Snyder |
| Actors: | Billy Crudup Matthew Goode Jackie Earle Haley Jeffrey Dean Morgan Patrick Wilson Malin Åkerman |
| "This city is afraid of me. I've seen its true face." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Zack Snyder | |
| Actors | |
| Billy Crudup | as Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan |
| Matthew Goode | as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias |
| Jackie Earle Haley | as Rorschach/Walter Kovacs |
| Jeffrey Dean Morgan | as Edward Blake/The Comedian |
| Patrick Wilson | as Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II |
| Matt Frewer | as Edgar Jacobi/Moloch |
| Stephen McHattie | as Hollis Mason/Old Nite Owl |
| Rob LaBelle | as Wally Weaver |
| Gary Houston | as John McLaughlin |
| James M. Connor | as Pat Buchanan |
| John Shaw | as Doug Roth |
| Robert Wisden | as Richard Nixon |
| Jerry Wasserman | as Detective Fine |
| Don Thompson | as Detective Gallagher |
| Frank Novak | as Henry Kissinger |
| Sean Allan | as NORAD General |
| Gary Chalk | as NORAD General |
| Ron Fassler | as Ted Koppel |
| Michael Kopsa | as Paul Klein |
| William S. Taylor | as Prison Psychiatrist |
| Chris Burns | as Dumb Thug |
| Malcolm Scott | as Fat Thug |
| Danny Wattley | as Huge Prisoner |
| Walter Addison | as Lee Iacocca |
| Keith Gordey | as Auto CEO |
| David MacKay | as Child Murderer |
| Fulvio Cecere | as Agent Forbes |
| Ted Cole | as Dick Cavett |
| Mark Acheson | as Large Man At Happy Harry's |
| John B. Destry | as Happy Harry's Bartender |
| Chris Gauthier | as Seymour |
| L. Harvey Gold | as New Frontiersman Editor |
| Jay Brazeau | as News Vendor |
| Jesse Reid | as Teenager at Newsstand |
| Manoj Sood | as Karnak Scientist |
| Dan Payne | as Dollar Bill |
| Niall Matter | as Byron Lewis/Mothman |
| Glenn Ennis | as Hooded Justice |
| Darryl Scheelar | as Nelson Gardner/Captain Metropolis |
| Clint Carleton | as Hollis Mason/Young Nite Owl |
| Mike Carpenter | as Young Moloch |
| Brett Stimely | as John F. Kennedy |
| Greg Travis | as Andy Warhol |
| Greg Armstrong-Morris | as Truman Capote |
| Andrew Colthart | as Naked Man At Warhol Party |
| Bruce Crawford | as Bank Robber |
| Salvatore Sortino | as 1940 Watchmen Photographer |
| Eli Snyder | as Young Rorschach |
| Tony Bardach | as John With Rorschach's Mother |
| John Kobylka | as Fidel Castro |
| J.R. Killigrew | as David Bowie |
| Steven Stojkovic | as Mick Jagger |
| Martin Reiss | as Brezhnev |
| Frank Cassini | as Sally's Husband |
| John R. Taylor | as Priest |
| Daryl Shuttleworth | as Jon's Father |
| Jaryd Heidrick | as Young Jon |
| Ron Chartier | as Carnival Photographer |
| Matt Drake | as Older Boy Bully |
| Tyler McClendon | as Veidt Enterprises Security Guard |
| Neil Schell | as Man In Riot Crowd |
| Michael Eklund | as Man In Riot Crowd |
| Louis Chirillo | as Face To Face TV Producer |
| Patrick Sabongui | as Knot Top Gang Leader |
| John Tench | as Knot Top Gang Member |
| Santo Lombardo | as Knot Top Gang Member |
| Jason Schombing | as NY SWAT |
| Darren Shahlavi | as NY SWAT |
| Marshall Virtue | as NY SWAT |
| Colin Lawrence | as Officer Kirkpatrick |
| Chris Weber | as Officer O'Brien |
| Alessandro Juliani | as Rockefeller Military Base Technician |
| Matthew Harrison | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Youri Obryvtchenko | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Parm Soor | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Tony Ali | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Ian Farthing | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Calvin Lee | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Alexander Mandra | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Ashley O'Connell | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Mark Gash | as On Location Reporter |
| Tom McBeath | as News Analyst |
| Kevin McNulty | as News Anchor |
| Mark Docherty | as Newscaster |
| Clay St. Thomas | as Newscaster |
| Dale Wolfe | as Keene Act Anchor |
| Ken Tremblett | as Keene Act Anchor |
| Greig Hospes | as Tenement Fire Child |
| Danny Hospes | as Tenement Fire Child |
| Jeffrey Flieler | as Tenement Fire Policeman |
| Kurt Evans | as Tenement Fire News Reporter |
| Sylvesta Stuart | as Destruction Firefighter |
| Terence Kelly | as General West |
| Ted Friend | as Larry Culpeper |
| Damon Caro | as U.S. Soldier |
| Douglas Chapman | as Roy Chess |
| Trevor Coppola | as NY Swat #4 |
| Dave Cote | as Man at Club |
| Ed Metzger | as Albert Einstein |
| Yoosik Oum | as Scientist |
| Kennith Overbey | as Village People Cop |
| Zack Snyder | as Commando in Vietnam |
| Michael Stevens | as Doomsday Clock Scientist #1 |
| Danny Woodburn | as Big Figure Prisoner |
| Actresses | |
| Malin Åkerman | as Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre II |
| Carla Gugino | as Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre |
| Laura Mennell | as Janey Slater |
| Mary Ann Burger | as Eleanor Clift |
| Stephanie Belding | as Janet Black |
| Nhi Do | as Vietnamese Girl |
| Apollonia Vanova | as Ursula Zandt/Silhouette |
| Leah Gibson | as Silhouette's Girlfriend |
| Carrie Genzel | as Jackie Kennedy |
| Lori Watt | as Rorschach's Mother |
| Carmen Lavigne | as Anti War Protester |
| Tara Frederick | as Aggressive Hooker |
| Carly Bentall | as Wally's Girlfriend |
| Haley Guiel | as Laurie - 13 Years |
| Sonya Salomaa | as Adrian Veidt's Assistant |
| Salli Saffioti | as Annie Leibovitz |
| Deborah Finkel | as Woman In Riot Crowd |
| Marsha Regis | as Face To Face TV Receptionist |
| Alison Araya | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Sahar Biniaz | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Bernadeta Wrobel | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Heidi Iro | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Kit Koon | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Cristina Menz | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Lynn Colliar | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Katie Bennison | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Isabelle Champeau | as Foreign Newscaster |
| Suzanne Clements-Smith | as On Location Reporter |
| Agam Darshi | as On Location Reporter |
| Dawn Chubai | as Keene Act Anchor |
| Manuelita Kinsley | as Keene Riot Reporter |
| Tamara Stanners | as Vietnam 51st State Anchor |
| Sahara Davis | as Young Tenement Fire Child |
| Ali Dunn | as Tenement Fire Child |
| Mi-Jung Lee | as A Bomb Test Anchorwoman |
| Saira De Goede | as Girl at Club |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 17 September 2007 - 19 February 2008 |
| Budget: | USD 130,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 98,140,886 USD (22 March 2009) UK - 8,639,867 GBP (5 April 2009) Philippines - 41,378,215 PHP (26 April 2009) |
| Plot: | Watchmen is a story set in an alternative 1985, where the world is ticking closer to the brink of nuclear war, and a plot to eliminate a band of ex-crime fighters is instigated, but why? and by whom? It is up to two of those ex-crime fighters to investigate the plot that seems to go beyond the unthinkable. |
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"Unforgettable" Written by Irving Gordon Performed by Nat 'King' Cole "Man on the Moon" (MTV Theme) Written by Jonathan Elias , Ray Foote (uncredited) and John Petersen "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Written and Performed by Bob Dylan "99 Luftballons" Written by Jörn-Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen and Karlo Carges Performed by Nena "The Sound of Silence" Written by Paul Simon Performed by Simon & Garfunkel "Ride of the Valkyries" Written by Richard Wagner Performed by The Budapest Symphony Orchestra "Me and Bobby McGee" Written by Fred Foster and Kris Kristofferson Performed by Janis Joplin "I'm Your Boogie Man" Written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch Performed by KC & The Sunshine Band "You're My Thrill" Written by Sidney Clare and Jay Gorney Performed by Billie Holiday "Protest" (Act II, Scene 3) From the opera "Satyagraha" Written by Philip Glass "Something She Has to Do" From The Hours (2002) Written by Philip Glass "Prophecies" From Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Written by Philip Glass Performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble "Pruit Igoe" From Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Written by Philip Glass Performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Written by Chris Hughes , Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley Performed by Studio Group "Hallelujah" Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen "All Along the Watchtower" Written by Bob Dylan Performed by Jimi Hendrix "Clyde" Written by J.J. Cale Performed by Waylon Jennings "Control Voice (From the television series Outer Limits)" Written and Performed by Vic Perrin "The Outer Limits Theme" and "Panic" Written and Performed by Dominic Frontiere "Desolation Row" Written by Bob Dylan Performed by My Chemical Romance "First We Take Manhattan" Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen "Requiem aeternam" from "Requiem" Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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SYNC: SPOILER: When Veidt drops the bullet he captured in his hand, it makes the distinctive sound of an empty shell casing hitting the floor and not the heavy clicking of an actual bullet being dropped. Continuity: The third and final inkblot shown to Rorschach by the psychiatrist is not the same after his flashback. Continuity: In the prison, as Silk Spectre and Night Owl are fighting the inmates down the cell block, Silk Spectre's boots go from high stiletto heels to flats. FAIR: If you look closely at all the framed newspaper articles, especially in the opening credits, the articles themselves are just series of repeating texts and paragraphs. However, this may be intentional, as it is a convention in comic books/graphic novels for "minor text" to appear as scribbles or repeating text. FAIR: The movie takes place in an alternate reality whose history diverged from ours in the 1930s. In some ways that reality is far more advanced than ours technologically. Because it is impossible to know what could and could not have been developed in the various time periods shown in the movie, most apparent anachronisms and factual errors regarding music, technology, politics, presidential term limits, biographies of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon , design etc., therefore do not apply. FAIR: When the reporters are talking to Veidt in his office, they refer to him as being only the second hero to reveal his identity, after Hollis Mason. It is true that in the opening montage, a bomber is seen with Silk Spectre's alias "Sally Jupiter" emblazoned on its side. Her real last name was Juspeczyk. She assumed the name Sally Jupiter because she did not wish to be known as being Polish. No one would be able to just look her up in the phone book so she did not really reveal her true identity. Revealing mistakes: In the scene in which Dr. Manhattan is dressing himself, as he turns his head at the end, his CGI neck can be seen going through the collar of his shirt. Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Silk Spectre II tries on Nite Owl II's night vision goggles, and the Nite Owl goes to turn off the light, you see his face through the goggles, but his eyes are not dilating. CHAR: Doctor Manhattan describes a "circulatory system" appearing on the grounds of a government base. However what is depicted is clearly the nervous system, as it features a brain and spinal cord, but no heart or lungs. (This error is repeated from the novel.) Revealing mistakes: If you watch the shadows on Dr. Manhattan carefully, it appears that the blue light is coming from an off-camera source, not his body. When he turns his head, the side of his face that is in shadow will change. When he is sitting on the bed holding the bra, the shadow of the bra on his chest indicates this as well. (Note: while the actor was emitting blue light from his motion capture suit during production, the computer model of Doctor Manhattan must be lit independently by animators.) FAIR: SPOILER: The particle accelerator is used to kill other characters, but why wouldn't they come back like Dr. Manhattan did? The other scientists had been killed by poison before being disintegrated. Dr. Manhattan was alive and conscious when he was disintegrated. His backstory also makes it explicit that he was taught how to recreate complex structures starting in his youth. Continuity: When Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II first arrive at the prison riot, the first one to run at them is an inmate with long hair. Silk Spectre II kicks him to the ground. As they fight their way down towards the guard, the same man is seen again and he is then swept off his feet and clotheslined to the ground by Nite Owl. FAIR: SPOILER: During the final battle in Adrian's Antarctic base, Laurie shoots Adrian with a pistol. It is hard to catch, but she takes this from a guard at Sing Sing during the breakout of Rorschach. Later it can be seen tucked away in her belt. FAIR: SPOILER: Veidt uses energy from Dr. Manhattan to destroy major cities across the world in order to end war. If he was able to do this, he might have been able to complete his original stated goal of creating renewable energy to end war. However it might not have been plausible in the time frame required. Continuity: SPOILER: After the fight between Veidt, Rorschach and Nite Owl II, Rorschach helps up Nite Owl as Veidt starts heading up the stairs. Rorschach had his hands at his sides, then the angle changed to over Veidt's shoulder and Rorschach's hands were inside his coat's pockets. Continuity: In Dan Dreiberg's underground laboratory, Rorschach rather pointedly drags his finger through a thick coat of dust over a cover on his work bench to indicate its lack of use. Later when Laurie Juspeczyk pulls the dust cover off of the "Archimedes" ship, there is no cloud of dust. FAIR: On Mars when Dr. Manhattan drops the photograph, it appears to fall at Earth-gravity speed. Gravity on Mars is 38% of that on Earth, but with only 0.7% the atmosphere, there is little wind resistance. In reality, a photo dropped on Mars may move at a similar speed. FAIR: SPOILER: The American cities destroyed at the end are Now York and Los Angeles, notably NOT Washington D.C., the seat of government. However, Moscow and Paris ARE destroyed. New York was shown to have not been destroyed entirely, thus it is reasonable to believe that the other cities were not destroyed entirely either, and the Soviet premier did survive to make peace. FAIR: Some of the floating credits are reflected in Neil Armstrong 's helmet. The back of the letters (or the reverse side) is what is facing the helmet. The reflection of the reverse side (or, the reverse of the reverse side) would show the text properly oriented. Therefore, both the credits and the reflection should appear as readable; the reflection should not appear backwards. Crew: In the scene where Rorschach drops his journal through the letterbox of The New Frontiersman, a crew members shadow is clearly visible to the right of the screen as the Owlship arrives and clearly moves to drop Rorschach's Journal into the letterbox. FAIR: When the Comedian's coffin is being lowered into the grave Dr. Manhattan's glow is not reflected off of it. This is because Dr. Manhattan can control his skin pigment, as well as the glow he emits. One would not be glowing at a funeral, so Dr. Manhattan in turn is not. Revealing mistakes: In Antarctica, as Rorschach and Nite Owl II slide open the doors when entering the facility, there are conduits and pipes on the right side of the screen that should continue through the wall but do not go anywhere. The sliding door passes through the wall where the pipes/conduits should be going. Also, the large pipe has a match outside but the perspective is not correct to have it meed up with the pipe from inside. Crew: (At 04:05) During the opening fight, as the Comedian is thrown across the room, Director Zack Snyder can be seen huddling between the drawer and brick wall, lower, left-hand corner of the screen. (Snyder points this out during his "live" Blu-Ray commentary.) Continuity: In the scene where Rorschach searches the Comedian's apartment (after he is killed), after jumping from the window he searches the place with his flashlight. He shines his torch to his left (towards to kitchen), but the next shot shows the light shining over the picture of Sally Jupiter with the knife stuck in it (the opposite side of where he points his flashlight). Continuity: In the main titles, Nite Owl stands up and his head completely covers the "1940" on the sign behind him. In all subsequent shots of the photograph of "Minutemen 1940" the banner hangs unobstructed above his head. Continuity: Moloch's copy of Allen Ginsberg's "HOWL" on his night table briefly changes orientation. Initially, you see the letters right side up; then upside-down (and closer to the bed); then back again. Revealing mistakes: As the camera zooms out from the crime scene at The Comedian's apartment, the Chrysler Center is visible in the reflection of the glass, but is not visible as the camera zooms out far enough to be able to see where it should be. Continuity: (At 22:00) Early on in the scene where Adrian is addressing a group of reporters while Dan waits to speak to him, a blimp can be seen through the window behind Adrian approaching the twin towers of the World Trade Center. It moves towards them until very close to them, and then the view changes to one of Adrian through the lens of a camera. When it returns to the previous angle, the blimp is even further away from the twin towers than it had been at the start of the previous shot, and again the shot lingers until the blimp is very near to them. Crew: At Karnak in some close ups of Nite Owl's face, the reflection in his goggles shows actor Billy Crudup in his motion capture suit covered in blue dots, instead of a full rendering of Dr. Manhattan. GEOG: In the scenes on Mars, two moons of approximately the same size as ours can be seen in the sky. However, the larger moon, Phobos, is 1/4 the apparent size of our moon when viewed from Mars, the other moon, Deimos, is much smaller - 5% of our moon's apparent size. Neither moon is as spherical as depicted, nor clearly visible from the surface. Revealing mistakes: When Dan meets Rorschach for the first time, his glasses are wet due to rain but not his face or hair. Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Laurie and Dan talk inside a coffeehouse, you can see people outside through a circular window. A woman and other people appear and disappear suddenly. FAIR: In this movie, the United States won the Vietnam War. However, one of Veidt's monitors is playing Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), a movie about avenging America's losses in Vietnam. In Veidt's world, Rambo must be regarded as an imaginative science fiction movie set in an alternate universe. FAIR: While it seems a continuity mistake, we can hear the bald thug drop his rotary saw, and the other thug pick it up all in the shot where he grabs the bars. FAIR: The director's cut, and the source novel, show how people know that Doctor Manhattan has gone to Mars, and eliminates "continuity errors" regarding his and Laurie's poses there. CHAR: A newscast lists the arrested Walter Kovacs' age as 35. However, all other plot points, plus the actor's age (47), show that the character's age is 45, not 35. Continuity: During the McLaughlin group discussion John McLaughlin has his hands in his lap. After a camera angle change his hands are raised. CHAR: SPOILER: When Rorschach and Nite Owl cut through the door to get into Karnak, you can see Nite Owl accidentally fires his cutting torch gun when trying to put it away. FAIR: SPOILER: In the scene where Rorschach is trapped in Edgar Jacobi's apartment, surrounded by SWAT teams, Jacobi's corpse blinks. However, recently deceased corpses will oftentimes show muscle reactions: twitches, gasps and flexures are not uncommon. Continuity: When we first see the cigarette in Moloch's hand it is burnt almost all the way down. When we see it again from another angle it is about halfway. CHAR: Near the beginning of the movie, Hollis Mason is listing the other members of the Minutemen besides him. He forgets to mention the Silhouette, who served with Nite Owl I in the Minutemen. FAIR: Dreiberg microwaves a carton of Chinese food with its metal handle still attached. While microwave instructions commonly prohibit customers from placing metal inside them for safety reasons the dangers of doing so are greatly exaggerated in the public mind. Small amounts of metal, like the handle from a Chinese food container, will likely not cause sparking and will generally, at most, cause damage to the microwave not a larger fire or an explosion. SYNC: In the scene where Night Owl II is shooting the water tower with Archie, you can clearly see the tracer rounds as well as hear the gun firing. However, the gun sound continues for a second after the tracers stop. |
Quotes
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[after the intruder kicks the door open] Edward Blake: Just a matter of time, I suppose. Adrian Veidt: We can do so much more. We can save this world... with the right leadership. Adrian Veidt: The only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him. Adrian Veidt: His vision of a united world... well, it was unprecedented. I wanted... *needed* to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world, *today*. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them. Adrian Veidt: What, in life, does not deserve celebrating? Edward Blake: God damn I love working on American soil, Dan. Ain't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein. Dan Dreiberg: How long can we keep this up? Edward Blake: Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks. Our days are numbered. Till then it's like you always say, we're society's only protection. Dan Dreiberg: From what? Edward Blake: You kidding me? From themselves. Rorschach: Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. Laurie Juspeczyk: I am not afraid. Rorschach: We need to squeeze people. Dan Dreiberg: [sarcastic] Sure. We'll pick them out of a phone book. Rorschach: You forgot how we do things, Daniel. You've gotten too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women. Dan Dreiberg: No, listen, I am through with that! God, who do you think you are, Rorschach? You live off people while insulting them and nobody complains because they think you're a goddamn lunatic! Dan Dreiberg: [Rorschach approaches Dan, who sighs and turns to him] I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that, man. Rorschach: Daniel? You are a good friend. [extends his hand and Dan takes it] Adrian Veidt: It doesn't take a genius to see that the world has problems. Edward Blake: No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle. Sally Jupiter: [on her daughter, Laurie] She blames me for her career, but what else would she have been? A housewife? Adrian Veidt: I don't mind being the smartest man in the world, I just wish it wasn't this one. [Laurie and Dan are breaking Rorschach out of prison] Rorschach: Need to visit men's room. Laurie Juspeczyk: Oh, Christ! Rorschach: Give me back my face! Rorschach: None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with *ME*! [last lines] Rorschach: Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York. [repeated line] Edward Blake: Mother forgive me. Dan Dreiberg: [referring to the exit tunnel] There's a maintenance hatch that will let you out two blocks north. Rorschach: I remember. I used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dan Dreiberg: Those were good times, huh Rorschach? What happened? Rorschach: [as he walks down the tunnel] You quit. Rorschach: I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Jon Osterman: Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman... did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the Sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite. Jon Osterman: In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon. Dan Dreiberg: Watchmen are over. Rorschach: Says Tricky Dick. Dan Dreiberg: Says me. Rorschach: [reading from journal] Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no." Dan Dreiberg: What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream? Edward Blake: "What happened to the American Dream?" It came true! You're lookin' at it... Jon Osterman: I'm disappointed in you, Adrian! Very disappointed! Re-assembling myself was the first trick I learned as Dr Manhattan! Adrian Veidt: I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago. Jon Osterman: What is this? Another ultimate weapon? Adrian Veidt: You could say that. [Veidt turns on TVs with remote] Adrian Veidt: Dan. A world united in peace... there had to be sacrifice. Dan Dreiberg: No! You haven't idealized mankind but you've... you've deformed it! You mutilated it. That's your legacy. That's the real practical joke. [Big Figure has just killed one of his own men to get to Rorschach's cell] Big Figure: Now you're gonna find out what the score is! Rorschach: One, nothing. Come and get me. Rorschach: Of course. You must protect Veidt's new utopia. What's one more body amongst the foundations? Well, what are you waiting for? Do it. [Dr. Manhattan hesitates] Rorschach: DO IT! Woman in diner: I'm so glad I got the four legged chicken. Jon Osterman: A live human body and a deceased human body have the same number of particles. Structurally there's no difference. Jon Osterman: Why would I save a world I no longer have any stake in? Laurie Juspeczyk: Do it for me. Rorschach: You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do. Rorschach: A Comedian died last night, and nobody cares. Nobody cares but me. Rorschach: [breaking into fence] I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him. Edgar Jacobi: I have cancer. Rorschach: What kind of cancer? Edgar Jacobi: Well, you know the kind you eventually get better from? Rorschach: Yes. Edgar Jacobi: Well, that ain't the kind I got. Rorschach: [examining psychiatrist's inkblot test] A pretty butterfly. Jon Osterman: When you left me, I left Earth. Adrian Veidt: [Nixon finishes his speech on Veidt's TVs] Do you see? It's your super powers retreating from war. I've saved the Earth from hell. We both have. This is as much your victory as it is mine. Now we can return. Do what we were meant to. Rorschach: We were meant to exact justice! Everyone's gonna know what you've done... Adrian Veidt: Will they? By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today. Dan Dreiberg: Peace based on a lie. Adrian Veidt: But peace! Nonetheless. Jon Osterman: ...He's right. Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to Nuclear destruction again. Laurie Juspeczyk: No... we can't do this. Jon Osterman: On Mars, you taught me the value of life. If we hope to preserve it here, we must remain silent. Rorschach: Keep your own secrets... [the others look as Rorscach leaves, then Jon and Adrian make eye contact] Dan Dreiberg: Don't even think about it. [Goes after Rorscach] Rorscach! Wait. Rorschach: [Turns] Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. [Leaves the building] Adrian Veidt: I've made myself feel every death... see every innocent face I've murdered to save humanity. [Turns to Jon] You understand, don't you? Jon Osterman: Without condoning... or condemning. I understand. Rorschach: [Outside, in the snow, Rorscach comes across a copy of Jon standing in the snow] Out of my way. People have to be told. Jon Osterman: You know I can't let you do that. Rorschach: Suddenly you discover humanity. Convenient. [Takes off his mask] If you'd cared from the start, none of this would've happened. Jon Osterman: I can change almost anything... but I can't change human nature. Rorschach: Of course, you must protect Veidt's new Utopia. One more body amongst foundations makes little difference. Well, what are you waiting for? Do it... [Jon hesitates] DO IT! [Jon makes Rorscach explode into a pile of blood] Dan Dreiberg: NOOOOOOOO! Dan Dreiberg: Maybe this was a political killing? Rorschach: Maybe. Or maybe someone's picking off costumed heroes. Dan Dreiberg: Um. Don't you think that's maybe a little paranoid? Rorschach: That's what they're saying about me now? That I'm paranoid? Edward Blake: Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. Detective Fine: [From outside Moloch's apartment] Rorschach! This is the police, we know you're in there. Rorschach: No! No! Detective Fine: [From outside Moloch's apartment] If there's anybody in there with you, send 'em out unharmed. Rorschach: No! No, no, no, no! Detective Fine: [From outside Moloch's apartment] Come out and make this a nice, clean surrender. Rorschach: Walked right into it! Stupid, stupid, stupid! Never surrender. Detective Fine: [From outside Moloch's apartment] Alright, I hope you're ready, hero. Rorschach: When you are. Big Figure: He's dead, Rorschach. While everyone's distracted, we thought we'd bring you a little housewarming gift. Something from the machine shop. Fat Thug: Hey, Boss, you notice? None of that "small world, tall order" crap, cause he knows once we slice open his lock, he's next on the block. Rorschach: Fat chance. [after killing a murderer who begged to be arrested] Rorschach: Men get arrested. Dogs get put down. [after shaking Rorschach's hand] Dan Dreiberg: Let's do it your way. Rorschach: I don't like you. Prison Psychiatrist: Ah. You don't like me? Well, why is that? Rorschach: Because you're fat. Rorschach: Your turn doctor! Tell me! [puts on Rorschach mask] Rorschach: What do you see? Dan Dreiberg: [examining blood stained Comedian badge] Is this bean juice? Rorschach: Human bean juice. Badge belonged to The Comedian. Blood too... Dan Dreiberg: So I've been thinking, I feel we have an obligation to our fraternity... I think we oughta spring Rorshach. Laurie Juspeczyk: What? Dan Dreiberg: Someone set him up. This whole cancer thing with Jon, it just doesn't make sense. You didn't get it. Laurie Juspeczyk: Yeah, but breaking into a maximum security prison is a lot different than putting out a fire. Dan Dreiberg: Yeah, you're right... it'll be more fun. Edward Blake: No, spelt Y-E-S... Sally Jupiter: No, spelt N-O! Rorschach: How's your friend Hollis Mason? Dan Dreiberg: What's Hollis got to do with any of this? Rorschach: He wrote that book. Said some things about the Comedian in it. Dan Dreiberg: I don't like what you're implying. I like being followed even less. Janet Black: Doctor Manhattan as you know the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction, midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. As of now it stands at four minutes to midnight. Would you agree that we are that close to annihilation? Jon Osterman: My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man. [repeated line] Edward Blake: This is a joke. This is all a joke. Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life, for generation after generation until, finally, your mother loves a man, Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate, and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds, it's you - only you - that emerged. To distill so specific a form, from all that chaos. It's like turning air into gold. A miracle. And so... I was wrong. Now dry your eyes, and let's go home. Adrian Veidt: You wanna know my past? Okay. Happily. It's a matter of public record that by seventeen both my parents were dead, leaving me alone. I guess you could say I've always been alone. I mean, they say I'm the smartest man in the world, but the truth is I've often felt stupid at being unable to relate to anybody. Well... anyone living, that is. The only person with whom I felt any kinship died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia. His vision of a United world, well... it was unprecedented. I wanted... needed to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teachings to our world today, and so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them. Fossil Fuels. Oil. Nuclear Power. Like a drug, and you, gentlemen, along with foreign interests, are the pushers. Lee Iacocca: Now listen. Adrian Veidt: No. You listen. The world will survive. And it deserves more than you've been able to provide. So let's cut to it, shall we? Privately I'm worth more than all of your corporations combined, I could buy and sell you three times over, which is something you should factor into your decision should you choose to make our disagreement public. I think you know the way out. Adrian Veidt's Assistant: The toy people wanna talk to you about some new villains for the Ozymandias line. Seems all the old villains are dead. Lee Iacocca: Mr Veidt? Adrian Veidt: I think I have some ideas. Laurie Juspeczyk: The most powerful thing in the universe... still just a puppet. Jon Osterman: We are all puppets, Laurie. I'm just the puppet who can see the strings. Jon Osterman: Your mind goes to dark places and you wonder why I keep the worst from you. Laurie Juspeczyk: [after rolling down the cab window] I'm sorry. I invited you out to dinner to catch up and have a few laughs... but there don't seem to be many laughs around these days. Dan Dreiberg: What do you expect? The Comedian's dead. Rorschach: Funny, ancient pharaohs looked forward to the end of the world. Hoping the cadavers would rise, and reclaim hearts from golden jars. Must currently be holding breath in anticipation. [as they ascend a flight of glass stairs on Mars] Jon Osterman: This is where we hold our conversation. In it, you reveal to me that you and Dreiberg have been sleeping together. [suddenly taken aback] Laurie Juspeczyk: You know about me and Dan? Jon Osterman: Not yet. But in a few moments, you're going to tell me. Laurie Juspeczyk: If you already know the future, then why were you surprised when I left you? Or when that reporter ambushed you? Why even argue about it if you already know how this is going to end? Jon Osterman: I have no choice. Everything is preordained... even my responses. Laurie Juspeczyk: And you're just going through the motions? The most powerful thing in the universe is still just a puppet... Jon Osterman: We are all puppets, Laurie. I'm just the puppet who can see the strings. Laurie Juspeczyk: And what if you're wrong? Jon Osterman: Why does my perception of time distress you so? Laurie Juspeczyk: Because it's inhuman. Because it makes me insane. You always say you wanna comfort me. Well, it isn't working. Look, I don't want to fight. I'm sorry I slept with Dan. [suddenly upset] Jon Osterman: You slept with Dan? Laurie Juspeczyk: You just said that you already knew about that. Jon Osterman: I said - *often* - that you were my only remaining link to humanity. Why would I save a world I no longer have any stake in? Laurie Juspeczyk: Then, do it for me... if you really care. Jon Osterman: When you left me, I left Earth. Does that not show you that I care? My red world here, now, means more to me than your blue one. Let me show you. Jon Osterman: Miracles by they're definition are meaningless, only what can happen does happen. Dr. Manhattan: I feel fear, for the last time. Hollis Mason: Truth: you were a better Nite Owl than I ever was, Danny boy. Dan Dreiberg: Hollis, we both know that's bullshit. Hollis Mason: Hey, watch with the language! This was the left hook that took out Captain Axis! Remember? Rorschach: The engines! Dan Dreiberg: They're icing up. Hold on to something! Rorschach: Daniel, you're coming in too low. Don't wish to interfere with running of ship, but perhaps should pull up sharply before... Dan Dreiberg: Yeah, I know, I'm trying! I'm trying to pull him up, goddamnit! Adrian Veidt: [Nixon finishes his speech on Veidt's TVs] Do you see? Two super powers retreating from war. I've saved the Earth from hell. We both have. This is as much your victory as it is mine. Now we can return. Do what we were meant to. Rorschach: We were meant to exact justice! Everyone's gonna know what you've done... Adrian Veidt: Will they? By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today. Dan Dreiberg: Peace based on a lie. Adrian Veidt: But peace! Nonetheless. Jon Osterman: ...He's right. Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to Nuclear destruction again. Laurie Juspeczyk: No... we can't do this. Jon Osterman: On Mars, you taught me the value of life. If we hope to preserve it here, we must remain silent. Rorschach: Keep your own secrets... [the others look as Rorscach leaves, then Jon and Adrian make eye contact] Dan Dreiberg: Don't even think about it. [Goes after Rorscach] Rorscach! Wait. Rorschach: [Turns] Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. [Leaves the building] Adrian Veidt: I've made myself feel every death... see every innocent face I've murdered to save humanity. [Turns to Jon] You understand, don't you? Jon Osterman: Without condoning... or condemning. I understand. John McLaughlin: On a scale of 0 to 10 - zero being impossible, ten being complete metaphysical certitude - what are the chances the Russians will actually attack the United States? Pat Buchanan. Pat Buchanan: Zero. The Soviets would never risk going to war when we have a walking nuclear deterrent on our side. Fat Thug: [Reaching into Rorschach's cell] You're dead, Rorschach! We got a prison full of killers out here! What do you got? Rorschach: [Grabbing Fat Thug's hands] Your hands. My pleasure. [Rorschach breaks Fat Thug's hands and ties them to the prison bars] Edward Blake: [to Dr. Manhattan] You know if we'd lost here in Vietnam, I think it might've driven us crazy. Y'know, as a country. But we didn't. Thanks to you. Dr. Manhattan: She was pregnant. And you gunned her down. Edward Blake: That's right. And you know what, you watched me. You could've turned the gun into steam, the bullets into mercury, the bottle into goddamned snowflakes but you didn't, did you? You really don't give a damn about human beings. You're driftin' out of touch, Doc. God help us all. Dr. Manhattan: You're my only remaining link to the world. Laurie Juspeczyk: I don't want that responsibility anymore. [to Adrian as she walks out] He's all yours. Adrian Veidt: Don't worry John, she'll be back. Dr. Manhattan: No she won't. Dr. Manhattan: In January 1971, President Nixon asks me to intervene in Vietnam, something that his predecessors would *not* ask. A week later the conflict ends. Some of the Viet Cong want to surrender to me personally. Dr. Manhattan: [remembering Janey while on Mars] Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day - while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. Rorschach: [after knocking out and then electrocuting a thug against a toilet] Hm. Never disposed of sewage with a toilet before. Obvious, really. Laurie Juspeczyk: John! The TV said you were on Mars. Dr. Manhattan: I am on Mars. You and I are about to have a conversation there. Laurie Juspeczyk: What are you talking about? Dr. Manhattan: You're going to try to convince me to save the world. Sally Jupiter: [to Eddie after sending Laurie away from him] Are there no depths you won't sink to? Edward Blake: Jesus Christ Sally, can't a guy talk to his- an old friend's daughter? Adrian Veidt: I've known John long enough to see he isn't devoid of emotion. His subtle facial twitches wouldn't have been noticed by the layman but to me, he might as well have been sobbing. Dr. Manhattan: Adrian, stop this. The tachyons were clever. But even if I can't predict where you are I can still turn the walls to glass. I should thank you. I'd almost forgotten the excitement of *not* knowing. The delights of uncertainty. Hollis Mason: [about Rorshach] They forced everyone out except him. Dan Dreiberg: Oh he'll quit. When he's dead. Jon Osterman: I am looking at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars is their old photographs. [repeated line] Rorschach: Fine like this. Edward Blake: Justice is coming to all of us, no matter what the fuck we do. You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time. Now, we finally have the power to finish the job. Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying; we'll all be dust. And Ozymandias here will be the smartest man on the cinder. Man on Moon: Good luck, Mister Gorsky. [Looking at psychiatrist's ink blot, remembering his abusive mother] Rorschach: Some nice flowers. [Looking at psychiatrist's ink blot, remembering being bullied] Rorschach: Clouds. Rorschach: Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist. Laurie Juspeczyk: Do you remember that crazy guy? What did he call himself... Captain Carnage. The one who used to pretend he was a supervillain just so he could get beaten up all the time? Dan Dreiberg: Yeah, he tried that on me once. I just walked away. He starts following me down the street in broad daylight, yelling 'Punish me! Punish me!' I'm just saying 'No! Get lost.' Laurie Juspeczyk: God. Whatever happened to him? Dan Dreiberg: Well, he pulled that on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft. [pause, then both laugh] Laurie Juspeczyk: Oh my god. That isn't even funny. Dan Dreiberg: [laughing] It is a *little* funny. Dan Dreiberg: I'm not the one still hiding behind a mask. Rorschach: No. You're hiding in plain sight. Richard Nixon: Bold moves, Henry. That's what's needed right now. We can't let these fuckers think we're weak! Henry Kissinger: [Incredulous] Yes. They must fear the madman Richard Nixon. Dr. Manhattan: They claim their labors are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated by horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be. Too late. John McLaughlin: You see, at the time I was misquoted. I never said 'The Super-man exists and he is American', what I said was '*God* exists and he is American'. Now if you begin to feel an intense and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept, don't be alarmed. That indicates only that you are still sane. Doug Roth: Mr. Veidt, to date, you're one of only two Watchmen ever to reveal their true identity to the world, the first being Hollis Mason. And you've certainly profited greatly by it turning your superhero alter ego, Ozymandias, into a billion-dollar industry: toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering. I understand there's a movie in the works. Adrian Veidt: I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth. Doug Roth: I'm sorry. Do you think... Adrian Veidt: The other Watchmen resent me for prostituting their struggle? It's a fair question. Yes, it's crossed my mind some of my old colleagues might see it that way, just as you're clearly aware that biased journalism sells more magazines. The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan. We recently expanded our research facility in Antarctica in the hope of developing cheap, renewable sources of energy that we might eliminate the world's reliance on fossil fuels. Now, it doesn't take a political scientist to see that our Cold War with the Russians isn't ideological - it's based upon fear. Fear of not having enough. But if we make resources infinite... ah... we make war obsolete. I would hope the other Watchmen understand that. Wherever they may be. Thanks for your time. Dan Dreiberg: You look good, Adrian. Adrian Veidt: Dan. It's been too long. So Rorschach thinks someone's hunting the Watchmen, huh? Dan Dreiberg: You think it's possible? Adrian Veidt: Statistically, one murder doesn't equal a trend. Rorschach's a sociopath, Dan. And so was the Comedian. He was practically a Nazi. You know that better than anyone. Dan Dreiberg: I'm not here because I miss him. Adrian Veidt: It's occurred to Rorschach that we're the only ones who know each other's identities. Dan Dreiberg: Actually, the whole world knows yours. That's why I'm warning you first. Adrian Veidt: Thank you, Dan, but I fear there's something much more real to worry about than Rorschach's mask killer. Dan Dreiberg: If the Russians do launch their nukes, can Jon really stop them? Adrian Veidt: The Soviets have 51,000 warheads stockpiled. Even if Jon stops 99 percent of them, the 1 percent that get through could still kill every living thing on Earth. Even Dr. Manhattan can't be everywhere at once. Rorschach: You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you. Laurie Juspeczyk: Everyone will die! Jon Osterman: And the universe will not even notice. Edward Blake: [speaking to Moloch] The truth is, you're the closest thing to a friend I got. What the fuck does that say? [From Ultimate Cut] News Vendor: Hey, all this time you've been coming down here, I never caught your name. Teenager at Newsstand: Bernard. News Vendor: Bernard? Your kidding? That's [chuckles] my name too. Teenager at Newsstand: Not that big a deal. There's lots off people called Bernard. |
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