V For Vendetta: The Movie

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Should I have said "knob-slobbing"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

In case anyone's interested, here's the Vanity Fair piece about V is for Vendetta that I mentioned above:

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― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sorry, no "is". I keep doing that.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is that from the current issue, with Johannson and Knightley draped over some dude in a suit?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

Thanks, Alba.

xp - that's Tom Ford!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wait, it's NOT based on a Sue Grafton novel?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

No, it's from last month's issue, with Lindsay Lohan wearing a bikini and admitting she has a problem.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh, the wife has that at home!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

"i have that under the pillow"

― gear (gear), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

so what's the deal with the director of this movie, does he exist or not?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

he does but you never see his face.

― antexit (antexit), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

Any other pictures of Moore?

― def zep (calstars), Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

In other VfV news, the director of photography died of a heart attack back in December.

― Yes, well, Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 5 March 2006 13:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

the Guardian are displaying Lloyd's original art for Vendetta in it's lobby from the 7th to the 17th march. 10-5 weekdays, 12-4 saturdays.

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

My basic reaction: Holy shit. Wow. Two anti-fascist moltov cocktails up.

Really--if Lindsay Anderson made a guilt-wracked, *really* angry socialist action movie, this would be it.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

lindsay is from my ends, and i rep him for life, but if he asked, i'd tell him not to branch out into dystopian sci-fi. not sure it'd really be playing to his strengths...

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hahahahah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Moore looks like Flex Mentallo up there.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

Kenan is a great dumbass on this thread.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

Do I even have to write what I was going to write? Probably not.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

I don't know if I trust all the reviews that I've seen so far; I reread the comic this weekend and I think, yes, this could actually work, unlike From Hell and LOEG, which were both mishandled to fuck, but VFV DOES seem like Wachowski material; I think Natalie Portman is totally stupid and not hot at all, though, whether or not that is a problem I guess we'll see. This is a film I am more apprehensive about than stoked. Bonus points if they slip Bauhaus in the OST.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

Major points redacted if the closing tune is performed by a reformed Rage Against the Machine, however.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 22:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

uh, deducted I mean. Let me redact that last verb....

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 22:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

there's a lot of music ref'd in the comics (VU's "I'm Waiting for the Man", Wagner, Beethoven's Fifth, "Dancing in the Streets", etc. - I'll be surprised if any of those are actually used).

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm looking forward to this, but there's some dialogue in the book that makes me cringe in advance at the thought of it being in the movie. "Perhaps the term 'Tamla Motown' is familiar to you?" ARGH ARGH STOP IT

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

ha, there's a cat power song in the movie.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

So David J isn't in the film and Cat Power is. Great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

Music I recall is "Cry Me a River", a Cat Power song (don't freak--Portman's character listens to it!), 1812 Overture, "Street Fighting Man".

I can't imagine Moore complaining that it pulls any punches--if it were more explicit in its dusgust with both the USA and UK, it would be one endless libel suit.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm excited about this movie! I'm even thinking of going to the opening midnight show!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

There are two amazing sequences--where Portman sees the story of the lesbian movie star and her internment and a sort of simultaneous backstory/epiphany where we literally see V being 'born' in flames and Portman being politically 'born' in a rainstorm overlooking the Thames.

Fuckin great stuff.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

The best is the last bit, but I'd be a real prick to even talk about that.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

hmm, well those are the two key sequences in the book... yr kinda makin me curious about seeing it now...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Also, a ref to the Stones' "Sympathy..."

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

something tells me there's gunna be no shortage of lolz here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/board/threads/

Some sample threads:

-Terrorists will like this movie

-Libertarian Party (Join the NEXT Revolution)

-Why would a conservative dislike this movie?

-THE VARIETY REVIEW SLAMMED THIS AS AWFUL

-Another Anti-American film

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha - yeah thats a great bit. "Please allow me to introduce myself", and then removes his hat for the horns...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

Kenan is a great dumbass on this thread.

I believe that was pointed out, like, a month ago. I feel appropriately dumbassy. But thanks for stopping by.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

You know when you know this is gonna be great?

When two Christian/Fascist G-men try to rape Portman and V shows up and *baffles* them into submission with this high speed monologue mainly using words that start with "v" and then sorta bitchslaps em with his hard, highly shiny cane.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

Where did you see it?

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

thanks for posting all of those, Kingfish! Awesome!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

AND THERE IS NO SHAKY-CAM!!!

That's right--you read it here first folks--recent advances in bleeding edge modern technology have invented devices that allow for steady, fluid camera movements!

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

hmm, now see that part of the screenplay scanned terribly when I read it. (in the book he just recites a bit of Macbeth)

x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

no need to thank me.

Thank the good folks at the IMDB boards, home to the most reactionary contrarianism by way of subliterate IGN types you'll find anywhere outside of certain ILM threads.

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Weaving pulls it off seriously well. Partially, because you're so busy figuring out whose bad and who might be REALLY bad and so on that...well, it works. And Weaving is having hell's own high time doing it. (Shakespeare becomes a mini-motif later in the film.)

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

we don't see his face, do we?

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

can govts sue for libel?

hugo weaving's voice has always been his trump card

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

>>we don't see his face, do we?

heh

― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's actually Jaye Davison.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's Jimmy Hoffa!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

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