I saw V for Vendetta the other day. I know many people liked the Wachowski’s version of the story but I was really appalled by it. I understand filmmakers changing stories to fit the parlance of the time the film was made, but what I see here is a complete overhaul of Alan Moore’s work of art and labeling it the same name as the original to make a media statement. No wonder Moore dissociated himself from the film.
Granted the film was probably enjoyable from a detached person’s perspective, but if you saw it with a certain mainset already imbued by the original work, you’re bound to be disappointed. First of all the entire fascism/anarchy centric theme that made the comic so unique was changed to some sort of americanised (read unquestioned patriotism) honour, chivalry, courage heroic epic. V in the movie just feels like a batman who kills and has a bigger agenda then dead parents , I respect batman as a hero coming from the universe he’s stuck in but there’s still too much inconceivable conscience and honour shits that’s holding back his true potential as a superhero. Now V ( in the comic) was, at the risk of sounding cliché a ruthless killing machine. He was chaos, chaos anarchy anarchy, he don’t give a shit whats in his way, to do what he has to do he’ll cut down Jesus himself if he’s on a roll. And if you look at the comic universe that realistically is what is needed to be a superhero. I mean what’s the point of dressing up like a clown and wearing a mask if you can’t kill shit and generally just bring around chaos wherever you go for no good reason.
Annoying as the toned down version of V in the movie was Natalie Portman did gave a good performance as per her excellent acting standard. Everything considered though, V for Vendetta is one of the better hero movie out there.
What’s with the ‘freedom forever’ tagline anyway. I always thought V for Vendetta was all about social rebellion through anarchy.
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i liked reading v for and then immediately watchmen. two sides of the story, t use a good old cliche.
find your distinction between the book and the movie interesting. but then again, do you think movies based on books need t keep t the original?
this is ZSa (blogger won't let me sign in)
i have to say i like your blogspot blog, very neat and uncluttered, with clipped sentences. Very clean. Yeah, V on film was just plain lame. i watched it on CineMax. i arranged the cushions around me and made myself a iced Rasna and all, and all i got was this flaccid penis of a movie. the acting was lame. everything was lame. the word 'lame' kept circling my mind while i watched it. i din't feel the fear of a totalitarian state. V looked like the cousin of the Phantom of the Opera.the only thing i liked was the yellow teeth of the dictator dude.
Comic adaptations, or book adaptations, i think, are always a very risky venture. even your beloved Stevie King ended cussing Hollywood. I think it was "Carrie" and "It" that made himself distance himself from the films.
i wanted this blog to be alil anarchy/nehilistic themed hence the ussr-type fist.but my priority being readability i had to use the white black background font contrast so i think it came out a little less then what i would have it themed in my mind. kind of like the comic/book to film adaptations you're talking about here, the one thing that almost always went wrong in these scenerios in my opinion is the the people making the movie trying too hard to please the audience and the fans/readers at the same time.
@feddabon:
watchmen was a little too drawn out for me altho i liked the g novel as a story. v as a less protracted version was true comic book fun for me.
of course movies don't need to retell the material it was based on scene by scene but it shouldn't dump the whole idea behind the original piece. what i'm saying about v here is that in terms of what the comic was themed at or what it tries to convey to the reader, as an adaptation the movie has no point. it would make a whole lot more sense if they just call the the movie 'american cunt' or something in my opinion.
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