In the opening sequence for “Watchmen” Watchmen opening on Vimeo there’s a fellow in Cuba with Castro (in a fur cap) who looks a lot like Dean Stockwell, but Stockwell isn’t credited at IMDB Watchmen (2009) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb . Anyone know what actor that is (and who he’s supposed to be playing)? An actor playing Brezhnev is credited, but I’m not sure that’s him in the opening.
The scene with Castro is in Moscow, so the fur hat guy is Brezhnev.
Thanks. I saw Castro and assumed this was Cuba, but of course that’s Moscow. Guess Martin Reiss realy looks like Dean Stockwell.
Yeah, that’s it. I’m now feeling embarrassed by the fact that I focused so much on the faces of the characters that I didn’t see that the background was Moscow (I suppose I found American jets over Cuba more likely than over Moscow -but this is the Watchmen universe).
It was apparently Reiss’ only film credit. He normally works as a model.
I looked it up on Youtube first. Looks like it’s impossible to find there. There is a version dubbed with the Sound of Silence, which works decently well. I prefer the original maybe, because it’s much harder to make Dylan work with anything than S&G.
Some thoughts because this thread is open:
Am I misremembering? Wasn’t there a part where Dr. Manhattan frags a Viet Cong, or was that in the film? Or did I blink at the wrong time?
Why does a molotov turn a storefront into a massive explosion? Stylistics?
It says “co-created” by Dave Gibbons. Hmm… wonder why they didn’t give the other guy’s name? 
Solid Snake also cowrote the script.
Rorschach is lucky his calling card took that second to blow away.
Not sure if this is a whoosh, given the smiley face… but Alan Moore (the writer) didn’t approve of his work being adapted as a movie. I’m pretty sure he asked them not to use his name.
Well, if you’re gonna use a smiley face in this thread, it really needs to be 
They’re Russian jets, in any case. I don’t know exactly what that scene is supposed to show — it’s a Soviet military parade and there are lots of missiles on display, but… that happened in our universe just the same. I guess it’s just supposed to remind us that the USSR and their allies are there and a credible military threat.
Of course you’re wooshed. It’s not that Moore disapproves of adaptations. He disapproves of everything.
No 
= :smack:. I petition the mods for a bloody smiley though.
Don’t say it’s blood, say it’s bean juice. 
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They’re Russian jets, in any case. I don’t know exactly what that scene is supposed to show — it’s a Soviet military parade and there are lots of missiles on display, but… that happened in our universe just the same. I guess it’s just supposed to remind us that the USSR and their allies are there and a credible military threat.
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I took it to be a reference to the Missile Crisis, since Moscow and Cuba being buddy-buddies and truck-based strategic missile launchpads were central to the issue. However, at the time it was Kruschchev at the helm and Brezhnev only came into power 2 years later so maybe I’m off (or maybe it means Kruschtchev got bumped earlier in the Watchmen timeline for some reason ?).
IMO, it’s one of the best opening credit sequences of any movie ever, and it encapsulates so much of the comic that the constraints of the genre stopped Snyder & co. from putting into the film proper, not to mention that it’s packed with enough Easter eggs to merit watching it over and over again.
(It was only just now that I noticed David Bowie and the Village People handing out with Ozymandias at Studio 54. Odd indeed, as I had always had this hunch that Matthew Goode was playing Ozymandias as a Bowie stand-in.)
It also appears to be later because the vignettes seem to be in chronological order and the Moscow scene is shown after the scene of Kennedy being assassinated.