You Have No Spine. You Have No Pride. - V's Talk With Britain

[jlroberson]

I am, for reasons from the past couple of weeks I'm sure most of you know about, pretty angry and disillusioned with pretty much our entire government right now, but also what appears to be our utter powerlessness to control it. (As someone on the left, you can imagine I feel particularly marooned politically right now) So of course my mind goes straight to Alan Moore & David Lloyd.

So here's V's REAL speech from V FOR VENDETTA.(well, most of it; I applied some cuts but the important stuff is here) Which, unlike the one in the film, doesn't let you off the hook it hangs our leaders upon. Something I feel everyone should read.







All (c)DC Comics. I'd rather say it was (c) Moore & Lloyd, but there you are.

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Comments

[20thcenturyvole]

Despite all criticisms of the movie, I will forever hear V's dialogue in Hugo Weaving's voice.

[jlroberson]

Which works fine. It's certainly not the CASTING in the film I have any problem with. It's some of the screenwriting choices. It's that they turn the whole thing into something personal when the book tries hard to avoid this. Things like that. And others I mentioned. The film I think skews toward a "savior" narrative that the book does not.

Kind of a syndrome in Moore adaptations. Like making FROM HELL(which is AWFUL) a mystery, which violates the whole point of the book right off the bat till we get to the other fuckery.

By the way: if the Brits had done the film, it'd have been goddamn Robbie Coltrane as Abberline, as God intended.

[espanolbot]

Weaving was a smashing Abberline in the Wolfman though. :)

[icon_uk]

I got about halfway through that movie before the sheer dullness of it drove me away. I don't think anyone came out of it well.

[mrstatham]

You should've stayed to LOL at the sight of teddy-bear Anthony Hopkins. So bad.

[jlroberson]

Out of curiosity, where is your avatar from?

[mrstatham]

It's the member image for Dr Strangelove in the assignment section of Peace Walker, the Metal Gear game.

[cleome45]

It would have been better as a series anyway. I don't know how in blazes a story of that length could be effectively compressed into a standard-length film in the first place. :/

[jlroberson]

I always thought Lloyd's atmosphere recalled Brit TV crime-suspense drama. TOUCHING EVIL, PRIME SUSPECT, that kind of look.