Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Day New York City was Attacked

day-the-earth-stood-still-01 Chapter 8, Page 3, Panel 3

This panel shows and advertisement for a movie playing at the Utopia theater.  The movie playing is “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, which foreshadows the events that occur at the end of the novel.  “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is a 1951 sci-fi movie about an alien invasion.  At the end of the novel, New York City is attacked by what survivors describe as an alien life form.  Every image or piece of dialogue that Moore includes in Watchmen is there for a specific reason, and in the case of the movie advertisement, it is to foreshadow the attack on New York City.

Image Credit:  http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/09/27/original-day-the-earth-stood-still-gets-special-edition/

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