V For Vendetta: The Movie

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― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I thought it looked worth seeing -- good action combined with balls enough to actually make thinly-veiled criticism of the war on terror. Never read the comics though.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

i read the comic in the summer, just after the bombs -- the first page itself documented exactly what it felt like. it's not a masterpiece, and filmmakers shouldn't feel any obligation to replicate source materials. i thought 'from hell' was a pretty good film.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

My desire to see this has been stoked after reading James Wolcott's weirdly gushing review of it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Frankly that's an unsettling image.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Should I have said "knob-slobbing"?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Alba.

xp - that's Tom Ford!

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

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

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

haha

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the wife has that at home!

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

"i have that under the pillow"

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

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

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

he does but you never see his face.

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

Any other pictures of Moore?

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

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

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

http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00161/Alan-Moore_161668a.jpg

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahah!

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

Moore looks like Flex Mentallo up there.

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

Kenan is a great dumbass on this thread.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Where did you see it?

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

thanks for posting all of those, Kingfish! Awesome!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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