One of the key moments in The Watchmen that resonated with us for years, was in fact the opening lines:
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!" . . .
". . . and I'll look down, and whisper "No.""
Obviously the film makers charged with editting the trailer for the movie were struck with it as well.
Years later, when reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (soon to be it's own movie, with Angelina Jolie), and found ourselves disagreeing with the celebrated Rand over how her protanganists' own "No" played out, it was perhaps because we were still hung up on The Watchmen and looking for something a little more dramatic, with a touch more nihilism.
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