The worth of the Artist - Discussion of Alan Moore

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/01/alan-moore-profile-watchmen

Alan Moore,
HE argued that film watered down his work in graphic Novels.

"In Moore's view, the film industry as a whole is guilty of "watering down our collective cultural imagination". He has likened the cinema-going public to freshly hatched birds with mouths open as Hollywood feeds them regurgitated worms.

"It seems to be kind of a reflex these days: if something works as a novel, then it will work even better as a film and a video game and a comic book ... I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television by movies by interactive entertainment.""

Both of these quotes it is obvious that Moore felt his art restrained within boundaries of a medium that was being forced to do things that could or more seeminglyy had to be made in order to work for a movie adaptation.
Moore by going againast this and trying to make things in his medium others could not replicate shows how artists want some ownership over there work and not corperations buying them out and prostituting their creations.

"It is a view shared by Terry Gilliam, one of several directors who briefly took up the challenge of bringing the epic to the screen. "Reducing the story to a two or two-and-a-half hour film seemed to me to take away the essence of what Watchmen is about," he said."

He says how by reducing a idea your taking away from it. And for someone who worked at Dc for them to say his ideas were there's shows that the industry is now so obsessed over money that the very artists and creators of concept are being ignored. No longer are they getting famous for their hard work. No longer is the artist whos passion created it coming across but instead a desire to sell and force these watered down versions down our throats.

Yes the industry of film benifits but at the expence of the artist