I’m personally very much a fan of both the comic and the movie
The overall plots are largely the same, the comic of course has a little more space to flesh things out.
Which does actually work against it at times, there’s a point where V just kind of goes off on a lecture about anarchy for a couple pages, which is interesting but maybe not the most exciting comic book reading you’ll ever do, and certainly wouldn’t have translated particularly well to the screen, so overall I don’t mind most of the changes they made of
Both the comic and movie are very much a product of their times and places. The comic is very much a reaction to Thatcherism in the UK, the movie more to post-911 Bush-era America.
The movie probably resonates more with me personally, but I’m also a product of that time and place. The comic strikes me as a little more timeless.
I didn’t watch the movie but I found the political lectures from V to be very fitting. Yeah it’s preachy from Moore, but it’s Moore and V saying “hey, V isn’t an anarchist because he kills fascists and breaks laws, anarchism is an ideology and he’s clinging to it as the opposite of fascism”
Yeah, don’t get me wrong I enjoyed his lectures, it’s just very much not going to be everyone’s cup of tea and certainly not something that would have translated well to a movie
Oh yeah ironically I think the lectures are even more important to do the story justice in a filmed medium. The comic keeps demanding you turn your brain on but people resist that in movies and movies (and tv) struggle to get people interacting critically with themes. The movie’s cultural impact was politically confused when you could do a voice over of him explaining anarchism during one of the scenes, a montage, or broken up throughout the “The Land of Do-As-You-Please” section of the story or in Evie’s lessons.
I don’t think it would’ve been super popular among audiences or the production company, but it would’ve been really hammering in the themes and points that the comic was appropriately heavy handed with.
I’m personally very much a fan of both the comic and the movie
The overall plots are largely the same, the comic of course has a little more space to flesh things out.
Which does actually work against it at times, there’s a point where V just kind of goes off on a lecture about anarchy for a couple pages, which is interesting but maybe not the most exciting comic book reading you’ll ever do, and certainly wouldn’t have translated particularly well to the screen, so overall I don’t mind most of the changes they made of
Both the comic and movie are very much a product of their times and places. The comic is very much a reaction to Thatcherism in the UK, the movie more to post-911 Bush-era America.
The movie probably resonates more with me personally, but I’m also a product of that time and place. The comic strikes me as a little more timeless.
I didn’t watch the movie but I found the political lectures from V to be very fitting. Yeah it’s preachy from Moore, but it’s Moore and V saying “hey, V isn’t an anarchist because he kills fascists and breaks laws, anarchism is an ideology and he’s clinging to it as the opposite of fascism”
Yeah, don’t get me wrong I enjoyed his lectures, it’s just very much not going to be everyone’s cup of tea and certainly not something that would have translated well to a movie
Oh yeah ironically I think the lectures are even more important to do the story justice in a filmed medium. The comic keeps demanding you turn your brain on but people resist that in movies and movies (and tv) struggle to get people interacting critically with themes. The movie’s cultural impact was politically confused when you could do a voice over of him explaining anarchism during one of the scenes, a montage, or broken up throughout the “The Land of Do-As-You-Please” section of the story or in Evie’s lessons.
I don’t think it would’ve been super popular among audiences or the production company, but it would’ve been really hammering in the themes and points that the comic was appropriately heavy handed with.