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Remember Remember the 5th of November
Last night I went to see V is for Vendetta with Bruce, Ashy, and Stacey. I didn't know what the movie was about other than it wasn't a Sue Grafton novel.
In a word, it was AWSOME!
It had everything and then some! I need to take Jon to see this! Heck! I need to get up and get active and DO something! (Not with bombs, I don't think like that)
I've got no doubts the american right wing will be deeply threatened by this film. I imagine they'll try to tear down it's message by focusing on what a 'bad man' Guy Faukes was. It's a nice indirect attack. Make the man in the film sound 'stupid' (and thus anyone who quotes the film) for modeling their life around such a villian.
Things I liked about the film:
The 'good guy' was completely sociopathic. He wasn't redeemed. He wasn't even sure what he was doing was 'good.
There wasn't a 'happy ending' in the american film sense. He didn't get the girl.
We didn't ever 'see his face' which was awsome.
His voice was... MMMMMMMmmmmmm!
The timing of some scenes was exquisite. You get a scene of two gay men snuggled together in bed with just enough time for the straight boys in the audience to go 'EEEW!' before the gestapo kick in their door and drag them off to be tortured and killed. That half second of tight timing is just perfect to hit those boys in the audience with the shocking fact that they've just sided with mass murdering neo nazis. It might give them The mask was BRILLIANT. It was a modification of the traditional Guy Fawkes mask into something more like a kabuki mask. It had an enlarged lower lip, deep-set eyes, and a sloping forehead. With proper lighting and angle of inclination, this made the mask incredibly expressive. Several shots stick in my mind but perhaps the most obvious is the one that really hits the emotion buttons. As V takes off in the train at the end, the train passes beneath a light and it makes him appear to smile, be at peace. Some really good thought went into the design of the mask as well as the lighting and shot angles, so that even though there are several monologue scenes in the film with nothing but his mask and physical emotes, they are far more visually interesting than most of the other close-ups I've seen in movies lately.
Things I didn't like:
The fight scene at the end was pointless and added nothing to the story. Making him somehow 'superhuman' really detracted from the message (ordinary people acting in number can change the world)
The knowledge that this movie would never work in the real world US. Can't control all the media from one station. Couldn't motivate americans long enough
I definitely want to see this movie again!
In a word, it was AWSOME!
It had everything and then some! I need to take Jon to see this! Heck! I need to get up and get active and DO something! (Not with bombs, I don't think like that)
I've got no doubts the american right wing will be deeply threatened by this film. I imagine they'll try to tear down it's message by focusing on what a 'bad man' Guy Faukes was. It's a nice indirect attack. Make the man in the film sound 'stupid' (and thus anyone who quotes the film) for modeling their life around such a villian.
Things I liked about the film:
The 'good guy' was completely sociopathic. He wasn't redeemed. He wasn't even sure what he was doing was 'good.
There wasn't a 'happy ending' in the american film sense. He didn't get the girl.
We didn't ever 'see his face' which was awsome.
His voice was... MMMMMMMmmmmmm!
The timing of some scenes was exquisite. You get a scene of two gay men snuggled together in bed with just enough time for the straight boys in the audience to go 'EEEW!' before the gestapo kick in their door and drag them off to be tortured and killed. That half second of tight timing is just perfect to hit those boys in the audience with the shocking fact that they've just sided with mass murdering neo nazis. It might give them The mask was BRILLIANT. It was a modification of the traditional Guy Fawkes mask into something more like a kabuki mask. It had an enlarged lower lip, deep-set eyes, and a sloping forehead. With proper lighting and angle of inclination, this made the mask incredibly expressive. Several shots stick in my mind but perhaps the most obvious is the one that really hits the emotion buttons. As V takes off in the train at the end, the train passes beneath a light and it makes him appear to smile, be at peace. Some really good thought went into the design of the mask as well as the lighting and shot angles, so that even though there are several monologue scenes in the film with nothing but his mask and physical emotes, they are far more visually interesting than most of the other close-ups I've seen in movies lately.
Things I didn't like:
The fight scene at the end was pointless and added nothing to the story. Making him somehow 'superhuman' really detracted from the message (ordinary people acting in number can change the world)
The knowledge that this movie would never work in the real world US. Can't control all the media from one station. Couldn't motivate americans long enough
I definitely want to see this movie again!
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What I've heard is that Moore repudiated the thing - that he's a hardcore anarchist, so the point he was making is that once you start handing power over to a government, when's it gonna stop?
I, being anarchistic but not so hardcore about it, like the idea of yanking the neocons' chains (Lord knows they yank mine), and love movies which feature violently doing in authority figures. That's sort of my least-mentionable fantasy right there. So yeah, it sounds seriously good.
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The obligatory Wachowski fight scene was... I don't know. As a mass-market film, it needed something to indicate 'the ending is approaching.' If it had gone the way of the book, it might've seemed too abrupt.. so it's not entirely worthless, but it is a concession to the medium.
It's also worth mentioning that it is suggested he is somewhat superhuman in the book, and that the movie downplays this... of course, it also omits some of the 'everyman' reinforcement. I think this is really the first work where Moore displayed himself as something more than a comic-book writer, but as an early work, it has some imperfections.
I don't know, in theory you could control all television in the US from one station; wasn't that how the emergency broadcast system was supposed to work?