![]() ![]() Watchmen is hardly alone in how the comic book adaptation of the 21st century can be accurately be read as a transformative effect of film noir in reaction to the disillusionment cause by yet another President overreaching his limited power.Īn incredibly palpable link of the themes of film noir as a reaction to occurrences in the real world can be read through the history of that ties the post-World War II era, the politics of 1968-1972 and the attacks of Septemtogether. Watchmen is perhaps the most intentionally noirish graphic novel of the 21st century precisely due to its cinematic effects which draw distinctly upon iconic elements ranging from the heavy shadows to the fedoras to the starkly pessimistic viewpoint of the film’s philosophy. Nor does that world within Watchmen also represent quite the same place we know in which that sense of victory distilled an overarching sense of disillusionment that it was inevitably going to happen to again. The world within the graphic novel Watchmen is a much different place in part because Watergate did not destroy Richard Nixon’s presidency thereby engendering a sense of trust in democracy and the American way through the victory helped along considerably by a free and open press that brought on feelings of victory stimulated by the reality that even the President of the United States could not get away with whatever he wanted. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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