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V for Vendetta
Mar. 19th, 2006 12:45 amSaw V for Vendetta tonight with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bugsybanana. It’s a real shame Alan Moore had his name removed (mostly because of disagreements with DC), because it’s a good, faithful adaptation.
Events are moved around from the comic, a couple of the least convincing bits are rewritten, a couple of sub-plots are dropped. The leader character (Susan in the original, Sutler in the movie) goes from being an introverted cypher to being a caricature, which plays better on film.
The lumpy, unattractive, middle-aged characters are played by lumpy, unattractive, middle-aged actors! There aren’t any in Hollywood, so they had to import them from England.
The general sensibility of the setting is updated. The comic — written in the early 1980s, set in 1997-98 — seemed to have a real year some decades earlier than that. The art seemed to depict a shabby, worn-down England, one where radio announcements were still a major part of people’s lives. The movie has cellphones and desktop computers, most things seem clean and in good repair, and television is the central information and entertainment source. (Maybe that’s a bit behind the times. The movie mentions something called the “Interlink”, but it’s literally just mentioned; we see nothing of it.) I much prefer the movie’s version of Lewis Prothero.
The really important bits of the story — and if you’ve read it, you know what I mean — are all there, and mostly presented very faithfully.
( And here’s what people reading at Barnes & Noble look like )
bugsybanana. It’s a real shame Alan Moore had his name removed (mostly because of disagreements with DC), because it’s a good, faithful adaptation. Events are moved around from the comic, a couple of the least convincing bits are rewritten, a couple of sub-plots are dropped. The leader character (Susan in the original, Sutler in the movie) goes from being an introverted cypher to being a caricature, which plays better on film.
The lumpy, unattractive, middle-aged characters are played by lumpy, unattractive, middle-aged actors! There aren’t any in Hollywood, so they had to import them from England.
The general sensibility of the setting is updated. The comic — written in the early 1980s, set in 1997-98 — seemed to have a real year some decades earlier than that. The art seemed to depict a shabby, worn-down England, one where radio announcements were still a major part of people’s lives. The movie has cellphones and desktop computers, most things seem clean and in good repair, and television is the central information and entertainment source. (Maybe that’s a bit behind the times. The movie mentions something called the “Interlink”, but it’s literally just mentioned; we see nothing of it.) I much prefer the movie’s version of Lewis Prothero.
The really important bits of the story — and if you’ve read it, you know what I mean — are all there, and mostly presented very faithfully.
( And here’s what people reading at Barnes & Noble look like )