Alan Moore: superhero movies ruined cinema and culture

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Writer Alan Moore criticized superhero movies, despite his great contributions as a comic book writer.

Alan moore es descrito por algunas persons como el mejor escritor de comic books of all times. The curtsies to the creative are due to his brutal work on Watchers, V of Vendetta, From hell Y The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In 2016, the Briton announced his retirement from the comic book industry, news that caused much regret among fans of his work.

Nadia doubts his genius, or his gigantic contributions to the world of comics. Without a doubt, he is an authorized voice within the entertainment industry, including film adaptations of some comics or franchises. In a recent interview, Alan moore broke the superhero movies, after considering that they have become a cancer of cinema and culture in general.

The harsh words of Alan Moore

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In an interview for Term, Alan Moore He did not hesitate to launch his scathing, powerful and shocking critique of the genre. He did not make distinctions, not even in favor of those films that seem to go out of the mold in favor of a more artistic work and less saturated with special effects.

“I haven't seen a superhero movie since Tim Burton's first Batman. They have ruined the cinema and at the same time the culture to a certain extent. I said a few years ago that I thought it was a worrying sign that hundreds of thousands of adults were gathering to see characters created 50 years ago to entertain 12-year-olds. That seemed to indicate a certain yearning to escape the complexities of the modern world, to return to the nostalgic vision we remember from childhood. It seemed dangerous, it was infantilizing the population, ”he said.

Alan moore He does not deny his past and accepts that he himself contributed to the phenomenon that placed superhero movies at the top of the entertainment industry. Today, he believes that what everyone involved did to exploit this situation is simply disgusting.

“All those characters have been stolen from their original creators, all of them. There is a long list of ghosts waiting behind them… I have no interest in superheroes, they were something invented in the late 30's for children and they are perfect entertainment for them. However, if you try to bring them to an adult world, then I think they become somewhat grotesque, "he said.

About Alan Moore

Alan moore He was born in the United Kingdom on November 18, 1953, so that years later he would become one of the best comic book writers of all time. Not only is it a sentimental assessment, but the creative is responsible for the creation of narrative resources used by other artists to exploit the full potential of the comic.

In years past, the magazine Time published a list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to date. The only graphic novel that appears on the list is precisely Watchmen, considered one of the great cult pieces by all comic book lovers.

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