Tbh, I think the only problem with its use in watchmen is that they didn’t use the Jeff Buckley version. The song Hallelujah is an intersection of faith, sex, and the human experience, so lyrically the song fits the movie’s theme. I just think Cohen’s version lacks any sex appeal…so people tend to just focus on the religious overtones of the lyrics.
I think if they used Buckley’s instead of This no one would have batted an eye.
Tbh, I think the only problem with its use in watchmen is that they didn’t use the Jeff Buckley version. The song Hallelujah is an intersection of faith, sex, and the human experience, so lyrically the song fits the movie’s theme. I just think Cohen’s version lacks any sex appeal…so people tend to just focus on the religious overtones of the lyrics.
I think if they used Buckley’s instead of This no one would have batted an eye.
I had no idea there was any sex in the song at all. I just hear hallelujah and my religious trauma kicks in.
Yeah… Cohen’s version kinda just sounds like you’re going to church with a beatnik choir.
Buckley’s version is just perfect to me. The pain, the longing.in his voice. What a great artist he was.
Cohen’s fans are fanatically devoted to him, and if they found Hallelujah’s use in Watchmen blasphemous, it was for his sake, not God’s.