03-16-2009, 12:19 PM
Most theaters will not carry NC-17 movies, it is the kiss of death for film distributions. I've seen far worse movies than this with an R rating. Shit, Excalibur was one of my favorite movies as a little kid and that started out with pappa Arthur raping the woman in full plate mail.
Nixon got elected 3 times (not 5) because when he got into office he used Manhattan to win Vietnam within a week, something Kennedy never did. Thats kind of the biggest diverging point between the two histories. Manhattan's existance escalated the arms race even worse than real cold war.
Manhattan was drifting father from Humanity so his ability to manipulate people was not particularly good and he had been kind of made into a weapon. Ozymandius figured the best way to prevent WW3 was to get the sides to think there was an even more terrible enemy. In the comics he did it by simulating an alien attack, which I have always thought would probably be one of the few things that could get us to drop the silly concept of nations and work together better..
Anyways it was written in the 80s and was certainly meant to be a critique of Reagan/Thatcher and cold war mentalities, but the choice to use Nixon was made so people wouldn't get as defensive about an attack on current politicians.
Nixon got elected 3 times (not 5) because when he got into office he used Manhattan to win Vietnam within a week, something Kennedy never did. Thats kind of the biggest diverging point between the two histories. Manhattan's existance escalated the arms race even worse than real cold war.
Manhattan was drifting father from Humanity so his ability to manipulate people was not particularly good and he had been kind of made into a weapon. Ozymandius figured the best way to prevent WW3 was to get the sides to think there was an even more terrible enemy. In the comics he did it by simulating an alien attack, which I have always thought would probably be one of the few things that could get us to drop the silly concept of nations and work together better..
Anyways it was written in the 80s and was certainly meant to be a critique of Reagan/Thatcher and cold war mentalities, but the choice to use Nixon was made so people wouldn't get as defensive about an attack on current politicians.