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Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero mystery film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The film is set in an alternate history 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired vigilantes investigate an apparent conspiracy against them and uncovers something even more grandiose and sinister.
Following publication of the Watchmen comic, a live-action film adaptation was mired in development hell. Producer Lawrence Gordon began developing the project at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. (parent company of Watchmen publisher DC Comics) with producer Joel Silver and director Terry Gilliam, the latter eventually deeming the complex novel "unfilmable". During the 2000s (decade), Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Studios and Paramount Pictures to produce a script by David Hayter; Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass were also attached to the project before it was canceled over budget disputes. The project returned to Warner Bros., where Snyder was hired to direct – Paramount remained as international distributor. Fox sued Warner Bros. for copyright violation arising from Gordon's failure to pay a buy-out in 1991, which enabled him to develop the film at the other studios. Fox and Warner Bros. settled this before the film's release with Fox receiving a portion of the gross. Principal photography began in Vancouver, September 2007. As with his previous film 300, Snyder closely modeled his storyboards on the comic, but chose not to shoot all of Watchmen using chroma key and opted for more sets.
Little Danah, she leans outside the diner
She sits and wonders, ?How did I get here??
Mr. Cadillac, he tells Danah where it?s at
When you?re with me kid you?ve got nothing to fear
Makes you wonder about Danah?s mother
Laying down the concrete law
Makes you wonder, pop
About that constant buzz you?ve got
I don?t need no Bible healing
I don?t need Mr. Leary?s whacked out feeling
I just need some understanding
I just need a happy home
Little Danah?s legs, they look just like a road map
She?s got to feed the monkeys crawling round her back
It helps to numb the pain when the rough boys play their games
I wonder if all the big stars started out like that
Makes you wonder about Danah?s mother
She?s yelling every time she speaks
Makes you wonder, pop
You?re always thinking with your cock
I don?t need no Bible healing
I don?t need Mr. Leary?s whacked out feeling
I just need some understanding
I just need a happy home
I can?t take it, I can?t take it, I can?t take it anymore
Every time I try to walk, I just end up on the floor
So put your arms around me, close them way up tight
I can?t breathe, no, I can?t breathe, I?m being strangled by the night
Mr. Fat Man says, ?You wanna make some extra cash
You know you?d look real cute dressed up like a nun?
Mr. Cadillac, he walks in on a blood bath
Fat Man says, hey I was only having fun
Makes you wonder mother, how you gonna treat your other
Will things turn out the same
Makes you wonder, pop
Just when are things they gonna stop
I don?t need no Bible healing
I don?t need Mr. Leary?s whacked out feeling
I just need some understanding
I just need a happy home
I just need a happy home