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V For Vendetta Trailer
An anonymous reader writes "The V For Vendetta trailer has been posted on the film's official site. The film is written by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski and stars Hugo Weaving and fan favorite Star Wars star Natalie Portman."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
V for Vendetta is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd (Tony Weare did the art for "Vincent" and additional art for "Valerie" and "The Vacation"), set in a dystopian future Britain where a mysterious anarchist works to destroy the fascist government and profoundly affects the people he encounters.
Something like this?
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
V for Vendetta is based on the comic with the same name. It's one excellent comic, focusing on totalism, freedom, hope, love and payback. The comic's artwork is dirty and raw, creating a very fitting atmosphere for the dystopic story.
Those of you who have read V, probably know that when it hits the mainstream, people will draw parallels to the real world (USA and GB) today. It's as topical as ever.
V for Vendetta only costs $13.59 at Amazon - buy it. It's an intelligent comic and uses the medium to send an important message.
If you just want to get to the highest res trailer, here's the link: http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/V_ trailer_1920_reflect_HD.mov
Orwell wrote 1984 because he was afraid of the Left. Big Brother, Uncle Joe. IngSoc, English Socialism. The Party.
Have you read any Orwell? He was a libertarian Marxist who fought in the POUM in the Spanish Civil War.
Take, for instance, these excerpts from Homage to Catalonia:
- I have no particular love for the idealised 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
- It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle . . . There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.
- Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.
And more importantly, from "Why I Write":
- The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I know it.
Don't you dare try and claim Orwell for the right. He's a Godless anti-state commie, thank you very much.
take a look at some of the changes in the movie...
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see:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2
If you happen to be running an operating system that doesn't run Quicktime natively, download it here and play in mplayer.
_ trailer_480_reflect.mov
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/V
It is a vision of a Communist authoritarian future. Communism is per se Left.
Thank you for reiterating, and completely ignoring what he just told you. You lose. GTFOMI.
...Andy and Larry Wachowski...
Shouldn't that be Andy and Linda Wachowski?
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What about Animal Farm? That was obviously aimed at the faults of the Soviet Union.
Someone should talk about Animal Farm.
Thanks for somebody from /. which posted this article some days ago : Alan Moore despise V for Vendetta. Most interrestingly is the yellow insert (scroll down).
Quote "MOORE SLAMS V FOR VENDETTA MOVIE, PULLS LoEG FROM DC COMICS
[The League]Alan Moore, co-creator of the "V For Vendetta" comic, has publicly disassociated himself from the upcoming Warner Brothers movie project based on the comic book and written and produced by the Wachowski Brothers. And as a result, he has cut his remaining ties with DC Comics, including future volumes of the "League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
Moore has promised future "League" comics will be published by a US/UK collaboration between Top Shelf and Knockabout. "
Quote : "Alan On The "V For Vendetta" Movie Alan gave some details about bits of the V For Vendetta shooting script he'd seen. "It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed." "
Apparently the horse is already out of the barn...
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I wouldn't put it past them to screw this up. From someone who doesn't bother with comic books, V for Vendetta was the shining exception for me due to the strong characters, deep ideas and frightening moral of the story.
If the film is true to the book, then you have a story in which the hero is an anarchist who terrorises the UK with a bombing campaign and is also, ultimately SPOILER!!!!! a suicide bomber. He is responsible for many deaths. The books also condemns "security" measures such as CCTV and glorifies drug use. I had quite an urge to try LSD after finishing the book.
The dialogue is also many layered and, based on the Matrix trilogy, I sincerely doubt that the Wachowski's have (a) the subtlety to pull it off and (b) the humility not to think they can improve it.
The sole thing I'm looking forward to in this movie is hearing the songs actually performed (that's if they're included). Everything else fills me with a feeling of dread.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
The same with Constantine, after bad experiences with From Hell and LXG: all he can do is refuse creator credit as it was all work-for-hire (he doesn't own the properties) so it is not like he could prevent them being made.
You know, people who lived under socialism believe it's anti-communist/socialist book. There are so many things were exact on money about socialism in the book.
I remember one of Russians in 80s said: "I understand how you can guess this and that but how he could KNOW we have a lack of razor blades???"
speaking on nostaligia...remember???
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Actually, Klinefelter's is a form of intersexuality and is not a mental disorder. Even the concept of Gender Identity Disorder as a mental disorder is arguable, for various reasons. And Gender Identity Disorder isn't developed...the two possible other causes you site can't have anything to do with it-generally, this is one of the few things the psychiatric and trans communities can agree on(CAMH and Blanchard/the whole "Man Who Would Be Queen" school being the exception, I believe). And yes, Linda Wachowski needs help-being herself. Transfolk are transfolk-try to deny that and you create or perpetrate transfolk gender hells. Actually, transsexuality is right(sorta) from a biological and psychological perspective-not for everyone, but it's right for the people who are trans. And the jury's still out on the flaw/feature bit.
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. -Anais Nin
Nope. That was wrong. The case was just recently heard in Court, and it was dismissed without any actual proceedings, due to negligence by Sophia Stewart and her lawyers. Another AC posted the reference here.
Arguably you are both full of shit. German move and TV make Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made a mini series called "Welt am Draht" (world on a wire) in 1973 - about a guy who works at a computer company, he realises that our world, and him, are actually inside a computer, and those who run that computer starts chasing him.
And that was based on the novel Simulacron-3 from the sixties, which arguably was inspired by a Philip K Dick novel from a few years earlier.
And Cameron settled with Harlan Elinson when he sued because he claimed Terminator was based on something he did.
Amazing so many lazy bum writers there are out there, trying to make a quick buck.
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