@johann
I didn't think they made Rorschach too emotional. The only part where he shows any actual emotion is at the very end, and it was the same way in the graphic novel. Even the facial expression was almost exactly dead on when he was screaming "JUST DO IT". The rest of the time he was pretty cold. The only other time he almost showed any emotion is when Dan was pissed off with him in the basement for being such a dick. And then he just sort of awkwardly half apologized, which he did in the novel as well.
Oh yeah, and the panic before the FBI storms the building, but that too was in the novel. I remember that part really made me feel bad for him in the book. As crazy ass violent retributionist sadist that he is, when he realized that there were an assload of armed guys outside waiting for him, he just freaked out and panicked, made him seem really human and realistic.
I think the movie portrayed him just about dead on.
The only thing that I think they skirted around a bit was the atheism. Osterman definitely came off more atheistic than agnostic in the novel, but a bit more agnostic in the movie. And Rorshach's speech with the therapist got a good bit cut out, and while it got the point across it stopped short of him denying the existence of god, and sadly never got around to his great line about how there is no meaning in life except that which you see if you stare at it for too long (which explains his name and mask). That part of the speech definitely needed to stay in. But oddly enough to movie didn't push nihilism as hard as the novel. Nor did it show the atheism of some of the key characters.
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