V for Vendetta

[Provost Harrison]

So it's alright then? I may look at going to see this at some point...Dauphin, up for a cinema trip?

[JohnT]

I saw it - pretty good, with an excellent acting job by Hugo Weaving as V. It must be difficult to emote properly while wearing a mask, but he pulled it off effectively. I also enjoyed that they didn't go into his background prior to the lab and I'm glad they unambiguously said "no" to a sequel.

[loinburger]

Spoiler:

They could always blow up Parliament again in the sequel...

[MrFun]

F for Funny

[Provost Harrison]

That's not bad for you, MrFun

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
True, I haven't read the graphic novel. Wonder where I could pick that up.

I would have liked to have seen where exactly his hideout was in London.

I would expect it to be Aldwych or somewhere...there are quite a few disused stations kicking around in London. However if one of the plans for another line are true, Aldwych may be resurrected...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
However if one of the plans for another line are true, Aldwych may be resurrected...

Is that good or bad?

[Provost Harrison]

Who knows?

[Drake Tungsten]

Reading Alan Moore rip on this movie has been hilarious...

I've read the screenplay, so I know exactly what they're doing with it, and I'm not going to be going to see it. When I wrote "V," politics were taking a serious turn for the worse over here. We'd had [Conservative Party Prime Minister] Margaret Thatcher in for two or three years, we'd had anti-Thatcher riots, we'd got the National Front and the right wing making serious advances. "V for Vendetta" was specifically about things like fascism and anarchy.

Those words, "fascism" and "anarchy," occur nowhere in the film. It's been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country. In my original story there had been a limited nuclear war, which had isolated Britain, caused a lot of chaos and a collapse of government, and a fascist totalitarian dictatorship had sprung up. Now, in the film, you've got a sinister group of right-wing figures — not fascists, but you know that they're bad guys — and what they have done is manufactured a bio-terror weapon in secret, so that they can fake a massive terrorist incident to get everybody on their side, so that they can pursue their right-wing agenda. It's a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what "V for Vendetta" was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about [England]. The intent of the film is nothing like the intent of the book as I wrote it. And if the Wachowski brothers had felt moved to protest the way things were going in America, then wouldn't it have been more direct to do what I'd done and set a risky political narrative sometime in the near future that was obviously talking about the things going on today?

George Clooney's being attacked for making ["Good Night, and Good Luck"], but he still had the nerve to make it. Presumably it's not illegal — not yet anyway — to express dissenting opinions in the land of free? So perhaps it would have been better for everybody if the Wachowski brothers had done something set in America, and instead of a hero who dresses up as Guy Fawkes, they could have had him dressed as Paul Revere. It could have worked.

http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/

[Zoid]

Alan Moore has issues... For someone who is so uninterested in movies and movie adaptions he sure has a lot of opinions on the matter...

[Drake Tungsten]

He definitely seems a bit mad, but in a pleasantly funny and erudite way.

[Zoid]

And it helps that he looks like he´s living in the gutter and talks to invisible aliens

[DinoDoc]

So perhaps it would have been better for everybody if the Wachowski brothers had done something set in America, and instead of a hero who dresses up as Guy Fawkes, they could have had him dressed as Paul Revere. It could have worked.

Sam Adams would be the better choice if we're going to go with a vaguely terrorist American hero. But yeah it might have been interesting. Thanks for posting the interview Drake. I was wondering why Moore had removed his name from the movie. I was under the mistaken impression that it was simply bad feelings over the crap adaptations that had been made from his work (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being chief among them.).

[Drake Tungsten]

Here's a better interview that I read a few weeks ago. Goes into more detail about Moore's issues with DC and the reasoning behind his attempts to have his name removed from all the film adaptations of his work...

Part 1

Part 2

[GePap]

I felt mixed about the movie. The message is pounded into ones head, and I found Hugo's line readings pretentious.

I whish they explained a bit more what exactly V went through. I guess this is from the novel, but I found Evey's forgiveness of V a bit too quick to be believable.

Overall, I was not as entertained as I thought I might have been, and I really don;t need this movie to educate me on its "message", other stories, and history books have done it much better.