Alan Moore Article -The guy who wrote V for Vendetta

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Alan Moore Article -The guy who wrote V for Vendetta

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Pretty interesting fellow. He hates CGI, and thinks comics are misunderstood. He also doesn't like the screenplay of V.

http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interv ... an_060315/

I liked this quote:

When I wrote "V," politics were taking a serious turn for the worse over here. We'd had [Conservative Party Prime Minister] Margaret Thatcher in for two or three years, we'd had anti-Thatcher riots, we'd got the National Front and the right wing making serious advances. "V for Vendetta" was specifically about things like fascism and anarchy.

Those words, "fascism" and "anarchy," occur nowhere in the film. It's been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country. In my original story there had been a limited nuclear war, which had isolated Britain, caused a lot of chaos and a collapse of government, and a fascist totalitarian dictatorship had sprung up. Now, in the film, you've got a sinister group of right-wing figures — not fascists, but you know that they're bad guys — and what they have done is manufactured a bio-terror weapon in secret, so that they can fake a massive terrorist incident to get everybody on their side, so that they can pursue their right-wing agenda. It's a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what "V for Vendetta" was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about [England]. The intent of the film is nothing like the intent of the book as I wrote it. And if the Wachowski brothers had felt moved to protest the way things were going in America, then wouldn't it have been more direct to do what I'd done and set a risky political narrative sometime in the near future that was obviously talking about the things going on today?
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haha
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wonder why he let the movie be made if he didn't like the $creenplay?
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brinstar wrote:wonder why he let the movie be made if he didn't like the $creenplay?


He probably sold the rights to the book.
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DC has the movie rights, not him.
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Most American movies these days suck ass.

I felt inclined to go to the theater the other night and looked at all the stupid movies they had listed and instead decided to surf porn and spank the little german.
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Post by Kaemon »

Wierd, I thought the movie portrayed a fascist government, similar to the Nazi party.
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ah, makes sense
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