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Movie: V Is For Vendetta
Anyone see this? I just saw it last night and loved it. It had it's moments but the dialogue and story was pretty darned good compared to alot of stuff coming out nowadays. It was done by the Wachowski brothers that did the Matrix Trilogy, so if you liked those movies you'll probably love V.
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I found it odd throughout the movie - for some reason, you always think that V is happy cuz he's got that damn grin on his face all the time. Even though, behind the mask, you can hear the subleties and inflection in his voice that must demand a hundred different countenances.
-bf
-bf
I think it already opened in the theater by Mt. Erebus - so I'm curious as to why it hasn't reached the UK yet.
-bf
I totally agree, BF. Hugo Weaving, one of my favourite actors, did such a great job conveying the character's emotional depth. It must have been hellishly hard to do behind a mask, but he managed to do it. I love him. I bet Simon would like this movie.
Palzang
V for Vendetta is great, but vastly inferior to Watchmen, for those that are interested. They're making a movie of it, and it'll probably be a turd, like the way Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell movies turned out, both of them based on wonderful graphic novels.
Palzang
Palzang
I haven't read the graphic novels yet but as soon as I'm able I'm going to find every single one he ever wrote because I really, really loved what he was saying and how he said it. I think the graphic novel is an extremely underrated art form. I find them to be...massive, for a lack of a better word. They affect me almost in the same way that opera does. They're huge and leave an indelible mark on my mind and I've only read a few so far. I can't wait to get more.
In "V" I found the way he dealt with the theme of sacrifice to be especially interesting and deeply moving. I find myself thinking about it very often. On your recommendation, the first novel of his that I'm going to find is "Watchmen". Thanks for the tip.
Palzang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen
I was lucky enough to be just old enough to read and understand the things I read when comic books were really becoming an art form apart from mere kid-stuff. Batman:The Dark Knight Returns, Sandman, Watchmen, all of them came out when I was growing up. Watcmen was one I kept returning to read every few years, and everytime I did, I'd uncover another wonderful or horrifying layer of the onion, so to speak. Bleh, I can't put into words what this one means to me, everyone read it!
I can understand that. Before I really got into it I remember not enjoying opera very much. I thought there was too much screaming. lol! It's all so totally subjective anyway, isn't it?
Pistoff,
I loved "Sandman"!! It was so good!
I just placed my order with Amazon for the paperback of "Watchmen" and they're so fast at delivering that I'll post my thoughts on it soon. I would have loved to have gotten the hardcover anniversary edition but it's waaaaaayyy out of my budget.
Can't wait!! Thanks again, Pistoff. You should read the reviews of it on Amazon.ca. lol! People say it's the ultimate, creme de la creme of graphic novels, just like you did. I knew I had to have it when the first reviewer was from Montreal, the city where I was born and raised. Destiny! lol!
When I was living in Paris in the '70s and '80s, a trip to Fnac would always result in hours spent reading "comic strip" without any of the furtive hiding in which one had to indulge in London.
Hear Hear!
I was just talking to a friend of mine about childrens cartoons in the morning. We were watching "kids show" on the internet and was commenting about how incredibly stupid it was. I said, "what happened to the good old days of coyotes falling off of cliffs and rabbits pulling funny stunts?" And!, all the while this was happening, children were learning a love of classical music!
I love classical music. I love much of the work done by Strauss (although I can't figure out why his music isn't technically termed as "classical") - I just can't grasp the opera stuff though.
-bf
Strange synchronicity. Last night a 'local' who has moved to Mayenne was back for a few days. She was saying that stories and memories of the Occupation remain common currency. I think it will take another couple of decades before the memories of the horrors of foreign occupation, misery and destruction fade from the collective psyche. It may, even, never fade. The examples of Ireland, of the Native Americans, and many others suggest that permanent scars remain. After all, the French still use the term rosbifs for the English, a term coined during the Hundred Years War.
Big question! When is it time to forget the Alamo?
Letting go...
The circle turns...
I believe that we carry responsibility to avoid the dreadful actions of our ancestors and predecessors. 'Forgetting' or ignoring the crimes committed to create our comfortable, rich, easy culture is another way in which we wash our hands. It is to discount the victims and to refuse them any sort of closure.
What is so upsetting is the choice of memories that are held onto: OK to remember the Nazi Holocaust but let's forget Armenia, and so on.
It's a little bit like how we choose our meat. In the West it's okay to eat cow but not dog. Reminds me of the joke about how smart dolphins really are. They're so smart they've got humans believing it's okay to eat tuna but not dolphin.
I read a lot of history, I certainly don't hate Germans for the Nazis, Swedes for the Vikings, or Britons for the Revolutionary war. Learning from and understanding the past is far superior than some vague sense of guilt for things that happened long ago that I was not involved in.
The Vikings?! They were marvelous explorers and brought civilization to godless realms like Britain. But you should know that - don't you remember when we sacked Londinium together in a former life as Viking warriors? :rolleyesc
Palzang
Palzang
Martin.
If the treatment of the Native Americans and non-whites were in the past, this might be OK but.................... As we live on the proceeds of the theft of lives and resources, what is our responsibility to our dispossessed cousins?
Release in the UK, due to a clerical error in the press release, was actually on July 31st.... this is why Martin of Norwich was able to buy a copy earlier than "planned".
I work for a company that tracks this very information - amongst other things.
so you heard it from the horse's mouth.....!
I'll tell you more in the "How was your day?" thread.....
My "Watchmen" came today! I'm so excited!
I'm on page 6 and I'm hooked like a poor little fish. I already love it but I'll keep you posted...
P.S. Thanks for recommending this. Really.