"V for Vendetta" Author Angry At "impotent American liberal" Re-write
Saturday, 25. March 2006, 07:42:26
"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?"
As I said in previous posts, their is a real fascist threat in the world today. There is a real theocratic threat in the world today. Hollywood continues to pretend that America is fascist and theocratic while ignoring the real threats.
"V for Vendetta" celebrates terrorism while we are at war with terrorism; the hero blows up Parliament with a subway train full of explosives, reminiscent of the attack on the Pentagon with a 747 and the London subway bombings. Didn't anyone making the movie think about the message of the movie? V is a terrorist at war with evil neo-cons, V uses the same tactics at Islamists, terrorism is the answer to political differences. Objectively, I think the makers of this movie aren't on our side.
Jeez.
WIDGETIZE
WillYum # 29. March 2006, 06:42
They were quite simply terrorists and the Throne would have quickly executed them had they been captured and 'tried'.
Before we condemn anyone who uses the loaded 'Terror' word we should look at the very place we came from.
Anonymous # 4. August 2006, 03:46
you have to be kidding, I remember George chopping down a cherry tree, not the head of an unarmed civilian-
get real-
WillYum # 4. August 2006, 23:14
To say that American Revolutionaries did not execute prisoners is a fallacy I'd be glad to debate.
Yum
Anonymous # 10. August 2006, 15:29
Why doesn't the USA and ALL of it's allies just NUKE the entire middle-east & israel, a sort of starting all over again, just like in the ending of V for Vendatta.
Anonymous # 11. August 2006, 18:43
Anonymous, Starting over again? It is not our place to 'start-over' we need to 'start-over' here.... we can start by just using the constitution and hanging all those not protecting it, like you. like the entire executive branch, and the Department of JUSTICE, which is UNDER the EXECUTIVE BRANCH... this is a fascist country too idiot.
WillYum # 11. August 2006, 20:21
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Anonymous # 6. December 2006, 23:26
This would have been an excellent movie if it didn't have so many contradictory elements throughout and push a radically liberal agenda. Bush and the "evil" republicans are being portrayed as Nazi's here, and if you know anything about history, and I do, you would realize that the Nazi's were a Socialist party, that just so happens to be where radical left-wingers fall on the ideological spectrum. And as for those in this thread who label the American Revolutionaries as terrorists in their own right are,well,complete idiots. You can't label any form of dissent as terrorism, it has to be justifiable action in light of terrible injustice. The British government grievously violated the principals of good government by failing to protect the inalienable rights of her citizenry and, as John Locke put it, practiced "force without right". In response, the likes of Washington and Jeffereson drafted the Decleration of Independence and formed their own system of government elsewhere. They did not chant, waving their muskets all about, that any one who doesn't conform to their system must die or run around brutally murdering innocent people; practices that modern day terrorists embrace--aside from the fact that they would probably be waving an AK-47 in one hand and the head of an innocent American journalist in the other. Jefferson and his men formed, what is today, the greatest nation on earth; a nation under attack by these suicidal liberals like the Wachowski Bros. who want to do everything within their power to sympathize with terrorists and tout their virtues. These so called "freedom fighters" are the same scum bags who would just as soon slit their throats and murder their families. These liberals cant seem to wrap their little heads around the fact that they view all Americans the same, we are the infidel; and unless these left-wingers are prepared to pick up a koran, abuse their women, and send their kids off to die in the name of Allah, making a movie glorifying the terrorist will do them little good, since they would be some of the first to die if the terrorists had their way on our turf anyways. I knew the politics of this movie would enrage me, but I think Portman is a classy actress, so I watched it anyway.