V for Vendetta

[loinburger]

That scene was pretty much the same in the movie as in the graphic novel -- they adapted it extremely well.

I borrowed the graphic novel from the Ohio State University library (which is also where I got the Watchmen). Try to see if you can get it from your local library or else on inter-library loan. Barring that, you can get a copy through amazon.com.

[Gatekeeper]

I, too, enjoyed the movie — especially some of the "flashback" scenes, which I found to be quite moving. V's a pretty tame terrorist, though. As anyone knows, a real terrorist likes to rack up a nice body count of innocent people and V fails to achieve that.

FWIW, I recommend the film.

Gatekeeper

P.S. Has that one Wachovski brother finished transforming himself into a woman yet? I heard he was taking hormones and had a domme in his life.

[Whoha]

I saw the preview of the guy doing the matrix bullet time crap with knifes to beat a bunch of soldiers with machine guns. bleh.

[Datajack Franit]

knifes

one knife
two knives

[Lorizael]

I always thought the protagonists of the Matrix were terrorists. I mean, they slaughtered countless truly helpless innocent civilians.

[Admiral]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I always thought the protagonists of the Matrix were terrorists. I mean, they slaughtered countless truly helpless innocent civilians.

But they slaughtered those innocents to save them...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Admiral
I heard that it suffered from a lot of the pseudo-depth that so weakened the second two Matrix films.

Matrix rots.

[Fve Crathva]

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/03/v_for_propagand.html

SP

[OneFootInTheGrave]

just seen the film last night



kinda hard to believe it that Hollywood is capable of producing something like that, it is simply brilliant.

Should win the oscar for best film, but yeah that is never going to happen.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Fve Crathva

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/03/v_for_propagand.html

SP

so, I take it, this author wouldn't rebel against tyranny if it was a conservative tyranny?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
so, I take it, this author wouldn't rebel against tyranny if it was a conservative tyranny?

http://www.shadowgalaxy.net/Vendetta/vterrorist.html

V is a terrorist and hardly a sympathetic character given his actions. That doesn't make the story any less entertaining though.

[asleepathewheel]

Now that column, I enjoyed. Much more thought provoking than the knee jerk reactions in the prior posted column.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, that's what makes this a very interesting film. People are rooting for the terrorist, and mostly because of what he represents. Of course a lot of these people aren't going to question their views of terrorism as a result of the movie, but some might.

[chequita guevara]

The Salon reviewer didn't like it, but she didn't like the graphic novel either. I was like, so why the hell did you review it? I'm not sure how well the movie can be understood outside the context of the times of the graphic novel.

[Guynemer]

Very interesting movie. A good movie; almost a great one. This is probably a failing of the book as well, but I would've liked the film better if there wasn't a degree of personal revenge to V's actions, and it was all purely for freedom.


EDIT: On the other hand, the aspect of personal vengence makes V even more morally-ambiguous, so I can see the value of that element. Nevermind.