tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17300290.post114295182371099598..comments2024-03-28T05:14:02.776-04:00Comments on Sketchy Thoughts: V for Vendetta; A for Anarchykersplebedebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08148717542412439319noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17300290.post-5166638541066562512008-02-20T20:51:00.000-05:002008-02-20T20:51:00.000-05:00watched V for Vendetta recently, good effects, the...watched V for Vendetta recently, good effects, they packed a lot of a character into a man wearing a mask.... then again, maybe he was more than a man in a mask...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17300290.post-1143084466401139732006-03-22T22:27:00.000-05:002006-03-22T22:27:00.000-05:00Have you read the book? I actually didn't like the...Have you read the book? I actually didn't like the book that much---I found it's own politics pretty watered down. Many of my friends really like it, so I'm not sure why they do and I don't. Unless it's cause I didn't read the thing until last year, and they all read it when they were teenagers. It definitely seems to appeal to a kind of teenage anti-authoritarian sort of thing. But that's not proper politics. There's definitely no class or anti-colonial content to the book, in my memory. Gender---sort of, kind of, only in what's in the plot. <BR/><BR/>So, thing is, I actually LIKED the movie! A lot more than I expected to! Maybe it's that _V_ didn't quite have enough content (political or otherwise) for a whole book ('even' a graphic novel), but a movie? Plenty! Even a fairly long movei (just looked it up on imdb, 132 minutes! I didn't even realize it!). <BR/><BR/>So, I dunno, from my memory of the book, it's political content hasn't been watered down at all, what you saw was what was there pretty unadultered. Except from my perspective even MORE powerful as a movie. <BR/><BR/>Your points about the public appetite for movies about 'good' terrorists is one I've thought about before. <BR/><BR/>Anyone remember 'Red Dawn'? I think it's time for a 'Red Dawn' revival. For a film that on it's face is all anti-communist 'red scare', I still somehow count it as a formative movie for this pro-revolutionary anarchist-communist. [How many current revolutionaries count mass media "pro-terrorist" entertainmetn as formative to their youthful selves is another interesting question?]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com