Is Zack Snyder’s Watchmen really the Director’s cut more than what is hitting the theaters?
ZS: I’ve got to say I’m proud of the cut that is in theatres. I could cut out Hollis’ death and that’s a big deal to me. There’s other stuff that I left off that’s on the Director’s cut. I feel it works in the movie but Hollis’ death was a big deal to me. Would you talk about the music? You mentioned the music in the opening sequence. I loved all the music in the film. ZS: As far as the music goes, I love tone in a movie, tone is more important than story to me. It’s the way a movie smells, you know? The way a movie is. It’s the thing you actually remember about a movie when the movie is over. When you leave a movie it’s “what was the movie about? You know there’s a bank robbery, and they found out there was a nuclear weapon”. That part of the movie becomes abstract. You really remember scenes and characters, and what the feeling of the movie was. When I was putting music together, when I was drawing this I had my music, like Zack’s play list, and that’s kind of the music that’s in the
