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At 3/23/06 10:47 PM, stafffighter wrote: You're just begging the micheal moore spammers to come back. The movie was, although not as effectly as the book, an example of the long standing tradition of using fiction to illistrate truth.

Michael Moore's a joke. I like the guy who ate Big Macs for a month better.

And I don't believe that V is not political enough because it's fiction, I believe it's not political enough because it's pseudo-intellectual and, emphasis on this one, IT'S MADE BY THE WACHOWSKIES.

I still have to see it, though. then I'll give my final thoughts on it.

And now, for any cocksnaps out there who think the Wachowskie brothers DIDN'T rape the fuck out of the comic series, a word from the CREATOR (Alan Moore) of V for vendetta....

Moore: I've read the screenplay, so I know exactly what they're doing with it, and I'm not going to be going to see it. 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?

I just saw the film last night and I think the word conservative was mentioned once in the entire film, and it was describing the high chancellor before he came into power. I don't think it was aimed at the current administration we have in office now.

I liked the movie. I thought it was fantastic. Of course tho, as i was watching it I thought to myself several times "that was a pretty liberal scene". But it didnt bother me at all and I just thought it was a good movie.