v for vendetta Options

[kris_fox17]

i couldn't wait for the movie to come out....... so i decided to buy the book, but all the freakin bookstores i went to either didn't carry them or were sold out!!!! it's a graphic novel (286pgs...... that's a hella long comic) i've never read a comic book before, but i heard really good things about this one.........

anyone read it?

V for Vendetta (Novel) ------- V for Vendetta (Movie)

[*Statues/Shadows*]

I can understand the critique of the script, because at times it was a bit cheesy, but it workedl I think it actually added to it. I expected it to be a decent movie, but I really liked it, as did my friends. It was a bit confusing, so I guess if you can't manage to sort everything out it wouldn't be good, but it was still quite intriquing, very intense.

(They didn't even try to ID us. Damn. I was really looking foward to sneaking in. Sounded like fun.)

[NoSex]

I can understand the critique of the script, because at times it was a bit cheesy, but it worked

For me, the cheesy aspect of the film wasn't the problem with the script. The problem with the script was that it played archetypes too straight. As far as I could tell, the audience was supposed to be at a crossroads on a moral question. "Is V a liberator or is he a terrorist?"

However, this question was never given proper time to set and gel as the line between the good guys and the bad guys is painted so boldly. There was no question, in anyone's mind, that V was a good guy and that the guy who looked like Hitler (Are we still drawing this comparison for each and every dictator portrayed in literature or on film?) was very very bad. Also, the ideas in V for VENDETTA almost seem beaten to death at this point. We know oppresive governments are bad, but how do we solve it? We know how we solve it, but is it right? Well, these deeper questions may have been in play during the film if it hadn't been so clearly written to appeal to, again as so many films seem to have been formed, the minds of middle schoolers. Ohh well.

Also, the romance seemed a bit needless. What was the point?

As super hero, good guy, bad guy movies go. I enjoyed it quite a bit and would reccomend it. But, it certaintly is not without its shortcomings.

[*Kathleen*]

Also, the romance seemed a bit needless. What was the point?

What movies these days ever get away without a touch of love story in it? Mmm I liked this, a lot, actually. I read the graphic novel a few years ago.. haven't had a chance to pick up a copy to compare with the movie, yet. When I was researching it, most of the reviews said the Wachowski brothers did, in fact, borrow heavily from the novel. I do, however, remember the fact that V's true identity was Valerie, but it only hinted at it in the movie.

[NoSex]

What movies these days ever get away without a touch of love story in it?

Whether or not the assumption is true that most films adopt a romantic element is irrelevant to the fact that this aspect of the film may have been worthless. In fact, I would go so far as to say the romance within V for VENDETTA was beyond worthless. It had become decapitating. The romance we saw onscreen, in my analysis, was empty and shallow. Almost a mirror of the superficial way "good" and "evil" were handled in the film.

Not to mention, romance may or may not be present within a film, and in each instance if it was present, it would be present to a certain degree. Given that degree, the presentation of romance would call for a certain level of quality. Some films pull it off (i.e. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), while others do not (i.e. V for Vendetta).

Either way, I think the love story hurt the film as a whole.