The joke she tells Doctor Manhattan in her Blue Booth phone call asserted that while her male cohorts were eventually "judged by God" and were each consigned to their separate versions of Hell, Laurie was the smart one who learned how to turn the tables on fate. More importantly, Laurie has grown to share the Comedian's cynically grim worldview - "It's all a joke" - and Edward's knack for black humor and her wisecracks electrify her scenes in Watchmen.įittingly, Laurie is the last woman standing of her generation of superheroes - and she knows it. Like Edward, Laurie keeps mementos of her superhero life displayed in her apartment and she yearns for her past romance (with Doctor Manhattan but also with Nite Owl, whom she wants to spring from federal custody) despite the grimy parts of days gone by. (Before she was arrested in 1995, Laurie changed her superhero identity to The Comedienne). The secret of Watchmen's reinvention of Laurie Blake is that Lindelof' has turned her into a new version of the Comedian, with all of the connotations that evolution entails. And yet, as a character, Silk Spectre was still upstaged by her male co-stars and even by Gugino's Sally Jupiter. But ultimately, the Watchmen movie's evolution of Silk Spectre was taking The Girl in the graphic novel and turning her into a sexy action figure. To her credit, Akerman was game and amply delivered everything the film demanded of her. Still, the lasting impression of the Watchmen movie's Silk Spectre is of Laurie in costume engaging in ultra-violent superheroics, with Snyder ensuring his kinetic visual style and well-timed slow-motion made every spin and hair toss by Malin Akerman as provocative as possible. Snyder's Watchmen attempted to show Silk Spectre finding strength in her sexuality and the movie did explore Laurie's emotional issues involving her mother, Sally (Carla Gugino), and her father, the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Related: HBO's Watchmen Criticizes Zack Snyder's Movie - And It's Right (Laurie complained about her costume during her dinner with Dan Dreiberg and he sarcastically 'agreed' with her that it was "awful".) Snyder's film delved into the kinky correlation between superheroes and their sex lives and Watchmen 2009 went even further in depicting Laurie as a sex object by showing her sleeping with Doctor Manhattan and Nite Owl Laurie also had some eye-popping nude scenes although, to be fair, Patrick Wilson's Nite Owl also appeared naked and Doctor Manhattan's full-frontal nudity is infamous. The most memorable aspect of Malin Akerman's flesh-and-blood incarnation of Laurie Juspeczyk is the skintight black and yellow vinyl costume she wore that ramped up the character's sex appeal. For his controversial R-rated Watchmen movie adaptation, Zack Snyder further fetishized Silk Spectre.
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