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Tom Ronca - 2006-04-18 00:29:01
It's been quite a while since I've read V for Vendetta, the graphic novel (I've just retreived it from the shadow gallery annex, and will give it a re-read this week), but from what I can remember I must disagree with you on some of the finer points of your assertions -- I do think the movie has a 'different' message than the novel, but I don't think that the novel calls for an 'adolescent anarchy utopia' -- I suspect Moore never intended for his readers to be entirely comfortable with V's actions -- just that given his situation, action was called for, and that said action tends to be violent. At any rate, don't believe me, check out what Moore has to say on the matter: http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/03/a_for_alan_pt_1_the_alan_moore.html
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Tom Ronca - 2006-04-18 00:37:33
And yes, I openly wept during the series finale of 6FU -- clearly I'm getting sentimental in my dotage ...
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Erich Kuersten - 2006-04-18 11:28:33
I thought a lot of V for Vendetta was rawther heavy-handed and didactic... lines like "You can't kill me, because you can't kill... an IDEA!" made me wince. Yeah, dude, all the characters in the film are "ideas," are "Composites" of characters from 1984, Tale of Two Cities, Phantom of the Opera, etc., but they don't go bragging about it. Plus it seemed that V's devious plan to kill the mates of state was awfully lame, and after all the terrors of the London Blitz during WW2, to see the citizenry so gung ho about blowing up one of their coolest tourist attractions "just for the 'ell of it" seemed creepy (since the revolution has already happened by then anyway).
That all said, Natalie Portman is super sweet.
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Paula - 2006-04-18 11:49:33
Erich:
I thought a lot of V for Vendetta was rawther heavy-handed and didactic
Oh, for shaw, but having just read the novel, it was a walk in the park in comparison.
C'mon the "I am Spartacus"-esque thing was pretty cool!
Tom:
I suspect Moore never intended for his readers to be entirely comfortable with V's actions
That's a good point...I am always wary of authors who claim not to have an agenda of some kind when they portray a character like this, but I may have oversimplified Moore's/Lloyd's intentions.
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Joe - 2006-04-18 14:51:51
My main question was - if the mask rebellion was successful and the government in essence deposed, why blow up the thing that's blown up at the end?
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