Hey /co, I just watched the intro to Zack Snyder's Watchmen and I wanna know what it means.
Like why was the winged costumed hero sent to a mental hospital?
And why was the lesbian hero killed? She seemed fine when Japan surrendered.
And why would the government open fire on a civil protest (Nixon just being a dick)?
Is it explained in the comic? I can't find a video/website explaining anything.
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They guy in the hood and noose is a queer
its explained in the comic
Sup Forums
Or just read the fucking comic.
its pretty easy to understand.
The opening is world building, it shows the first hero team, the minutemen, and how they got dissolved.
It's supposed to be a time lapse of what's going on in the world and how the heroes are changing with if. Was Bob Dylan's "The Times Are A Changin" not subtle enough for you?
I don't even think it's a good movie, but that's the best part of it hands down. You don't need every detail to be spoonfed to you.
>why was the winged costume hero sent to a mental hospital
He was a superhero that invented a gliding harness that allowed him limited flight.
But it lacked genuine safety features. So one little mistake and he'd wind up either crippled or dead.
But because he wanted to continue fighting crime as a superhero, he turned to alcohol to cope with the stress that came with using his invention.
The stress got to him, he had a mental breakdown, but he was eventually released a few years later.
>Why was the lesbian hero killed
It was the early 20th century and she was gay. Hate crime.
>And why would the government open fire on a civil protest (Nixon just being a dick)?
Didn't that happen IRL?
Mothman was alcoholic.
In the 50s lesbians were killed for being openly lesbians all the time.
>I just watched the intro to Zack Snyder's Watchmen
>Zack Snyder's Watchmen
somewhere a snake puppet is rolling in its drawer.
>government open fire on a civil protest
wikipedia.org wiki Kent_State_shootings
I think the only underlying meaning is that times were a-changing, user
Who DIRECTED the movie? Spielberg?
I think not.
>didnt that happen in real life
correct, it was based off the the kent state shootings
>It was the early 20th century and she was gay
You're saying that like it was a common occurrence.
you didn't get the reference, did you? it's okay, i won't bully a newb, but do some research about one of the most lauded comics in history before creator-shaming it by referring to it by the director of that filmed abortion's name. cheers!
Humour me. Typed snake puppet comic into Google and came up with nonsense.
All this and more revealed in the fucking comic.
the optimal word in my response was "research," mate. as in do some. quit expecting everyone to give you information you can easily obtain.
Ever considered Sup Forums apart of research?
Homosexuality was considered grounds for committal into the 70's
no. what you're doing is a shortcut to actual research. you are asking questions to people who have read the comic expecting answers instead of reading the primary source - the comic - and further educating yourself on it via secondary sources - reviews, criticisms, fucking wiki pages. what you're doing is lazy, like getting someone else to read The Great Gatsby after watching the movie and answer questions for you. hell, i just outlined a primer on how to research for you. now get to work.
Why u so mad tho?
>a snake puppet is rolling in its drawer.
How am I meant to gather research from that?
dunces like OP get under my skin. instead of doing research and educating him/herself about a subject matter, he/she'd rather someone else do it. however, the further he/she posts, the more i gather that possibly he/she simply is not knowledgeable about the research process and is unaware of how to go about it. which means i've been arguing with either a 12yo or a dunce. if OP is 12, i apologize for my stridency. if not, he/she should apologize for being a dunce.
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To reiterate...
okay, since you still do not get it, i'll say this and be off. i've already outlined how you can research Watchmen. the research will lead you to answers on all your questions and even to the origins of my little joke. researching is a far more rewarding and insightful experience than q&a's because in a q&a you're acquiring secondhand if not thirdhand knowledge. okay, i'm done. i wish you good day and good luck with your research.
>why was the winged costumed hero sent to a mental hospital?
he was an alcoholic and went crazy.
>why was the lesbian hero killed? She seemed fine when Japan surrendered.
>why would the government open fire on a civil protest (Nixon just being a dick)?
do millennials have history lessons anymore? it's like all of them don't know shit about american history prior to 9/11, it's because it's too racist for the new era of muh fewings?
you should read the comic, it's much better
Are you implying it wasn't? I'm not even gay but I went to a vigil for Orlando the other night and people were firing shots. We had to get a police escort and this is 2016.
A gay woman out in the open in the early-mid 20th would be living with a target on her back.
>reading comics
>And why would the government open fire on a civil protest
Do you not know what the Kent State shootings were?
Reminder that unless you were born pre-1980, you yourself are a millennial.
Why isn't every response in this thread "Fuck off and read comics"?
Why are we catering to the crossposting Sup Forums kiddies that are shitting up this board?
>And why was the lesbian hero killed? She seemed fine when Japan surrendered.
>And why would the government open fire on a civil protest (Nixon just being a dick)?
I get not knowing about the Kent State Shootings but it's pretty retarded to not know that she died because she was gay("Lesbian whores" is even fucking written in the wall with their blood, it's not even subtle, are you actually retarded?)
that was clearly fake. it's like telling the Tiananmen incident actually happened. wake up sheeple!
Because it's fucking obvious IN THE FUCKING MOVIE, you don't even have to read the comic to get what he's asking
>thinking Sup Forums is full of teenagers
most people here is around 30-40 years old permavirgins
Question pls
>when Sup Forums comes to Sup Forums
>In the 50s lesbians were killed for being openly lesbians all the time.
That isn't remotely true
fuckard
You are full of shit
You're revisionist history to create a permanent victim status is painfully obvious
go back to your gender studies class and push your bullshit there
Like I said, I'm not even gay dude. Why would I be interested in perpetuating the perceived victimhood of others?
Have you ever watched any archival stuff like The Homosexuals about how gays were perceived in the past?
>It contradicts my worldview so it didn't happen
Literally the most bluepill thing you can say.
M8 if you can't spell "fucktard" you have no business calling anybody one.
also in the 50's you were killed for being openly black all the time
so your saying its outside the realm of possibility that a publicly lesbian figure in the 50s was murdered in a hate crime?
>In the 50s lesbians were killed for being openly lesbians all the time.
Gotta love how lesbians piggyback off the suffering of homosexual males.
The amount of people who were openly gay in the U.S. around that time were very minimal, almost non-existent, which makes the Snyder version of Silhouette really ridiculous and stupid considering the cause of her death originally.
The ending in the comic book is lame
>The stress got to him
Wasn't he indicted in communist witch hunts and then continually harassed by the FBI?
>Didn't that happen IRL?
4 dead in ohio
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That is the best response for Sup Forums here though
it was and it is outside of USA all the time.
But that's the whole fucking point. She WAS open about it, meaning she would easily be a target.
Openly gay people like Tennessee Williams were beaten up on the streets in the 70s. To imagine the situation would somehow be less likely in the decidedly less sexually free 50s is nonsense to me.
The fact is that there were two high points of gay acceptance in the first half of the 20th century: the 20s when sexual mores were loosened in the cities, and WWII when gay men found each other in the service and lesbians found each other at home. The idea that a lesbian might feel comfortable enough to kiss someone on the street during a mass celebration during a high point, and then be killed a decade later during a low point in gay acceptance makes complete sense.
While I think a lot of gay men really are using this current situation as an excuse to keep their victim card at a time when teh SJWs are beginning to turn against them for being too privileged, pretending like the world was safe for openly gay people 60 years ago is absurd. Gay people very much existed in the 50s, and they were MUCH less likely to be open, but openly gay people existed too, and one who made a big publicity stunt about it like she did would almost certainly be subject to immense hate and violence. It's not revisionist history to say gay people were oppressed in the past. It's simply the truth.
I highly doubt that. Maybe on Sup Forums or r9k/, but I'd imagine the majority of the site are males in their 20s.
>implying those two boards would be populated by 30/40 year olds
They're targeting and catered specifically to the early 20s crowd of smug faux intellectuals
>I went to a vigil for Orlando
>people were firing shots
>this is 2016
What this place has become.
Because if I'll lower myself to Sup Forums level, then it'd make me just as bad as them.
Nah, I'm Generation X.