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I would normally stick this in our FriendFeed and call it a day, but I was curious to get other people’s thoughts on Watchmen character Ozymandias.  MTV’s Splash Page quotes actor Matthew Goode, who plays Ozymandias in 2009’s Watchmen film:

“What he’s about is trying to save the world. … He’s also incredibly fit. He’s possibly the greatest physical specimen on the planet.”

“And yeah,” added Goode, “he’s possibly homosexual.”

To be honest, I never really thought much about Ozymandias’ sexuality, but there are some aspects of the character that could be read as “gay”, including some stereotypical ones used only by those with very primitive gaydar.

• His idol is Alexander the Great.
• Bubastis. Gays in media love the cats, but here’s a recent NY Times article on straight men who love their cats too. Perhaps too much? [Adam, I'm looking at you.]
• He kept his intelligence “in the closet”, you might say, by pretending to be a mediocre student.
• Those clothes!
• As Goode said, he’s “possibly the greatest physical specimen on the planet.”
• He’s in the perfume business.

And, in a theory so improbable it might just be used in the fourth season of Heroes:

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I collect hundreds, prides, scores and other unlikely collective nouns of links throughout the week. Often there’s nothing to say about them, but I offer you some from this week, No-Face style:

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It was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

The Watchmen trailer looks great. There are so many ways that this could go wrong (The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, anyone?), but so far, so good. Several of the scenes seem taken straight from the comic’s panels, and they managed to get the cheesy costumes just cheesy enough without offending modern sensibilities too much. And “The End Is the Beginning Is the End” is a nice touch. Take that, Batman & Robin.

I only have a couple of concerns, which is a good thing.

• I do wish that the trailer showed us a more out-of-shape [read: chubby] Nite Owl, but that might be asking too much of Hollywood, even if that aspect is essential to the character and story.
• “From the visionary director of 300“. Maybe they’ll add in some gay Persians for The Comedian to bash just for the hell of it.

The Caprica trailer is not good. It’s not bad. It’s just there. It looks like it would be an interesting movie in and of itself, but I don’t get a BSG-vibe from it, other than the music. In all fairness to the show, think back to some of the old BSG promos that the Sci Fi Channel put out. I love you guys for giving me hours of Saturday morning entertainment (e.g. Rock Monster), but BSG is not a Tom Cruise movie from the 80s.

Every month on the 6th, you can see a new, behind-the-scenes video on the Watchmen movie site. This month, costume designer Michael Wilkinson describes some of the difficulties faced when costuming a movie that spans several decades.

The clip focuses on the gargantuan task of costuming all those extras, but toward the end we get a glimpse of The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Ozymandias and Rorschach.

Remember, kids, this is your last chance to dress up as Rorschach for Halloween before everyone else is doing it next year.

Watchmen opens March 6, 2009.

[Via The Official Watchmen Movie Site]

I stay up late editing a new vlog episode, and look what I miss!

Now that the film is exactly one year away, director Zack Snyder has posted some photos from the upcoming movie adaptation of Watchmen.

If these were released to get people excited about the movie, then it definitely worked on me. I have two questions, though:

1. Where’s Dr. Manhattan (played by Billy Crudup)?

2. In the book, the characters look really silly in their costumes. They realize it in their later years, even reminiscing on how ridiculous it was for adults to dress up in tights and run around fighting crime. For me, this adds something to whole aging-superhero theme of the novel.

The film costumes are updated (and look really good, IMHO), but do any of you think that they risk losing something by playing down how outlandish the whole concept is?

[Via The Watchmen Movie Blog]