Just going to use this post to brag that I own the actual certified fresh trophy that V for Vendetta won:

Just going to use this post to brag that I own the actual certified fresh trophy that V for Vendetta won:

If you're paying to watch this flick, you've missed the point. 😅✊🏼
... available to rent.
Gimme 10 seconds and I can find a torrent link, somewhere to stream it for free, you know, like V would want.
... fucking available to rent, jfc.
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead..." — a character from a video game that is also sold for money
Some classic comic book monologuing


This is another adaptation where the comic is much more nuanced and a way better take than the movie.
The movie whitewashes the hell out of V, in the graphic novel he's actually a fucking psychopath.
Well, I mean they tortured the shit out of him. I have no problem with someone tortured by a corrupt and fascist government going full psychopath and killing a bunch of nazi wannabes.
in the graphic novel he’s actually a fucking psychopath
Well, he's lionizing a Christian terrorist, so that tracks.
Kind of. His target was James VI/I, who seeded the Troubles in Ireland, burned Catholics at the stake, dissolved parliament, and more.
Fawkes was Christian and was a terrorist by conventional measures, and the Catholic monarchs prior were also brutal, but we should be careful not to apotheosise James.
Men who were Catholic were guilty of treason rather than heresy, and thus were generally hanged, drawn, and quartered. Legate and Wightman were nontrinitarian and technically protestant.
The best kind of protestant...
The best kind of protestants are Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879 adherents.
I would hazard a guess that he wasn't a fan of the parliament, considering where he was found. That said, I do understand those ruling the country at the time were pretty horrible. I still don't agree with his and his compatriots' methods, nor do I trust that their rule, had they succeeded, would have been benevolent rather than the same, but bad for Protestants instead.
I'm glad we have both the comic and the movie. I'm glad the movie led me to the comic. I love them both.
The movie is 'V for vendetta' in case anyone is wondering.
V for Vendetta was the last movie the Wachowski’s made that is worth watching, probably because neither of them directed it. Man 2000-2010 was a great time to be a movie fan.
It is also a great comic book.
I'll defend Speed Racer (2008). It's a beautiful film, full of color and fun. Sure the story is simple, but it's just so much fun.
Also why did I never notice that Agent Elrond was V?!
I'm gonna have to rewatch it. Some day. Idk, I don't get a lot of movie time these days.
Comic and movie -- are there any other adaptations? (Book?)
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