I've been obsessed with this moVie and comic ever since I saw it. What do you think of it? I do belieVe that Natalie Portman (Evey) was miscast as She over acted. Hugo Weaving plays V excellently. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6HbZXI9Y0&feature=related]
V: Voilà ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeful; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. (giggles) Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. Evey: Are you like a crazy person? V: I'm quite sure they will say so.
Do you want to know our opinions of the movie? If so I really liked the movie and it's actually my favorite movie. I loved all the action in the movie and the story line was really good.
I must admit I enjoyed the comic rather more than the movie. I'm also in high support of Anonymous for choosing the Guy Fawkes masks whenever they're protesting Scientology.
I saw it when I was ten, and it seemed so gory. (the movie). I think I actually understood some of the plot. But I have no idea; I almost never get what's going on in movies. Isn't it that this serial killer has this weird mask, and then, to escape the authorities, he and his henchmen hand out thousands of identical masks to people? The masks get really popular, and nearly everyone's wearing them, so they don't know who is the serial killer and who isn't.
I think that's how it goes...
Efan, your capitalizing every "V" you write is doing weird things with my head voice.
Alan Moore (the guy who wrote the comic books) has completely disowned the movie. It switches the ideals of the Norsefire regime and makes them more 'Bush-like' as well as changing a number of plot points that Moore felt were important.
I enjoyed both the movie and the comic, though I will admit that there's a part of me that was disappointed with both. I watched The Watchmen before I read the comic and I actually enjoyed the movie much more than the comic, the comic left me somewhat disappointed at the end.
It's funny because V was an anarchist while Guy Fawkes was, I believe, fighting for more religious control. There was one website that compared V with Rorschach from The Watchmen and it pointed out the few similarities they had along with their personalities that seemed completely opposite of one another.
Both V and Rorschach 'became' their new identities and claimed their old identities were long gone. Prisoner 5 died at the camp and became V while Walter 'died' when he found the bones of a murdered child, which from then on he was Rorschach.
However, their similarities end about there. V considered himself to be opened minded and believed everyone should live their own life however they wanted. V fought to protect Evey, even though Evey was trying her hand at prostitution. Rorschach, on the other hand, was disgusted with the world and longed for what it used to be like. Rather than moving forward, he wanted to move back.
I'll try to find the website that made these comparisons. It was a fun read.
I believe the movie could have been a tad bit more realistic. Although the graphic novel was a bit of a disappointment, I still liked it much more. I believe the reason I don't care too much for the graphic novel is the amount of attention to every detail you must pay to understand what's going on.
