November 5th: the day we get beaten up and laugh!

[Atreyu]

Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta (Do NOT compare it to the excreble movie that Moore had his name taken off of) once wrote to the artist on the series that the English should be celebrating Fawke’s attemp, not burning him in effigy

What are you talking about, it was a GREAT movie! I thought Hugo Weaving was brilliant, and the movie generally was well-received by critics. Oh, and Alan Moore doesn’t associate himself with any cinematic adaptations of his work (or so says Wikipedia at least).

 

[Paganus]

Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta (Do NOT compare it to the excreble movie that Moore had his name taken off of) once wrote to the artist on the series that the English should be celebrating Fawke’s attemp, not burning him in effigy

You mean they don’t sell little Parliaments and Kings?

Pop! Pop! Pop!

 

[Lion_of_Narnia]

What are you talking about, it was a GREAT movie! I thought Hugo Weaving was brilliant, and the movie generally was well-received by critics. Oh, and Alan Moore doesn’t associate himself with any cinematic adaptations of his work (or so says Wikipedia at least).

Weaving was quite good, considering the script, considering the director(s).

The unrequited love of V for Evey–utterly absent from the comic. Typical Hollywood having to put in some romance where none was necessary.

The different sequence of events changed the story. In the comic, V starts with blowing up Parliment (the birth place of democracy already an abandoned grave). The Old Bailey, the symbol of prostituted Law–next to go. Only at the end, when V has sabatoged the survellance systems is the Government headquarters blasted.

Utterly gone was Mrs Almond and “Vicious Caberet”–and it was Mrs Almond who finaly takes it on herself to kill the dictator.

“Fate” was removed, perhaps because that would have been too similar to The Matrix Trilogy premise. A shame because it epitomized the souless society that reduced people to ciphers. (The dictator actually loved Fate, kissing a monitor screen at one point)

The people donning V costumes and facing down the military–so we get our freedom by adopting a cult of personality? Tell that to William Wallace.

I didn’t care for all of the novel–In fact, Moore probabaly expressed some latent English anti-Catholicism in the killing of the pedophile Bishop–feeding him poisoned Host, thus “refuting” the doctrine of Transubtantiation

 

[Sixtus]

Well, it’s a good thing that the day has changed enough in meaning that Catholics can join the party too. Are there really still anti-Catholic people who take it seriously as a “death to catholics” sort of thing? That strikes me as… um… well a lot of times people look for reasons to be offended…

While the Church has relaxed its view on catholics becoming freemasons, there are still plenty of lodges from which catholics are banned for no other reason than because they are catholics

 

[Lion_of_Narnia]

While the Church has relaxed its view on catholics becoming freemasons, there are still plenty of lodges from which catholics are banned for no other reason than because they are catholics

When have we done this?–especially since His Holiness was the man who wrote the re-afirmation of the Church’s ban, under pain of excommunication, circa 1984

 

[strngrnrth]

This blows my West Coast, college-processed mind. Where I live, there is absolutely no cultural phenomenon, from food to words to holidays to sitting positions, to the height of your running shoes, that can’t get you singled out as a closet bigot of some kind and made a pariah until the crowd gets distracted by another suspect. If there were a holiday based on picking on members of any religion – whoa! It just could never happen. Sometimes it’s annoying living this way but this thread reminds me how well we really have it here. I think I want to hole up on the Left Coast and never venture into the real world again. There are scary people out there.