V – Vendetta

yer he did post

top film 😀

eh?

crap 5/10

Firstly, the politics and morals in the story were deranged.

Secondly, Nathalie Portman sounded like Pharty for the whole film.

Thirdly, V’s mask made him look constipated.

W for Wank

I quite liked it 8/10

He will always be “Mr Smith”

@xdc the doc wrote:

u cannot be serious neon! I thought you would appreciate a good comic comversion (I would say THE only good comic conversion) to film. Class – 10/10

The trouble with it for me is that sometimes what works in a comic comes across as too cliche’d on film. Like the monologue about Guy Fawkes at the beginning said “it is the ideal, not the man that is important”, and by shooting the movie in a realistic way I begin to start applying real logic to it. The comic ‘ideal’ of the comic became subverted.

Had this been Manga or filmed like Sin City or 300 I think it would have worked much better, since it would have been a comic book view of revenge, justice and freedom, rather than serious film implying comic book reality. For example, in the comic Finch the head of police, takes LSD, has a trip and then kills V, which works well since in a fantasy-like story it seems poetic. But in the film it wouldn’t have worked, given a bad message and robbed us of a cool fight. I did think that fight was cool.

As much as I like Michael Moore (he lived with his wife and her girlfriend for years, the lucky bastard), most of his tales seem to about change for the sake of change, rather than for the better. Comic characters are harder to empathise with than real people (those ideals again), so when the comic ends with 10 Downing Street blowing up we can assume a comic-book ending. But when you have real people and a state of anarchy, it’s those with the guns who are in control, and in a true fascist state only the government have them.

Anyway, I’ve got too serious on this. Basically the story is good and all, but in it’s transference it becomes too ‘real’ and that’s where I think it falls down.

Plus it had one of the worst lines in a film:

Finch: Who was he?

Evey: He was my father. He was my mother, my brother, he was me, he was all of us.

Finch: That hasn’t actually answered my question. You see I’m a policeman and I need to know his identity. You know, his name, where he lived etc.

Evey: Erm… I’d kind of hoped you’d accept that as a good enough answer.

Alright, I added the last bit. That works in comics, but it’s pants in RL.

agreed, started good…went down hill