Creator of Watchmen Condemns Superhero Cinema
Alan Moore gave an interview in which he criticized superhero movies. According to the artist, Watchmen spoiled the cinema and culture, and have a bad influence on the audience.
- Alan Moore believes that superhero movies lead to infantilization of the audience.
- The creator of the graphic novel Watchmen sees the popularity of superhero movies as an attempt to escape from reality.
- According to Moore, superheroes were created with children in mind, and the attempt to adapt them to adult audience leads to grotesque.
Alan Moore, the creator of iconic graphic novels like Watchmen and V for Vendetta, was interviewed by the editorial staff of Deadline. The interview concerned mainly his new project, The Show, which he not only wrote, but also plays a role in. Moore used this opportunity to criticize superheroes movies once again - in his opinion they are dangerous and lead to infantilization of society. Fortunately, this time there were no curses.
Moore confessed that he hasn't watched any superhero movie since Tim Burton's Batman(premiered in 1989). In his opinion, such productions have a bad influence on cinema and culture.
"Several years ago I said I thought it was a really worrying sign, that hundreds of thousands of adults were queuing up to see characters that were created 50 years ago to entertain 12-year-old boys. That seemed to speak to some kind of longing to escape from the complexities of the modern world, and go back to a nostalgic, remembered childhood."
In his reflections he goes one step further. According to the screenwriter, the debut of 6 superhero movie in the same year when Donald Trump came to power in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union is no accident. It is connected with the desire to deny reality and look for simple solutions.
Alan Moore has been making graphic novels for 40 years, but confessed that he wouldn't want to go back to them because they are too much associated with movies he hates so much. He will certainly not devote time to any of the contemporary productions of this type either. The screenwriter emphasized that superhero as a concept was created in the late 1930s with children in mind, and that they are the best target of this genre. Trying to aim the formula at adults leads to grotesque.
Moore also blamed himself in part. He claims that by creating works for mature audiences, he contributed to the spread of the opinion that "comic books have grown up". In reality, however, this happened with only a small part of them.
I am interested in your opinion on this subject. Do movies like Iron Man and Avengers really make us more childish?
