uncut: v for vendetta
Added 2024-10-29 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Ok, so I just watched the movie and your watch along. Not sure if you read new comments to old stuff, but, I have some things to say. So, the movie. I watched it once years ago (before just now) and I enjoyed it. I finally had a chance to read the comic, and wanted to see the movie again, you know, as one does. They're extremely different. There's a whole extra character that's totally removed from the story, who is the wife of someone who, sort of has her own little adventure. One difference, is Evey's first scene. In the comic, she is getting dressed, as V is getting dressed. The only difference is, she's not going to see her Grandpa or whatever, she's in desperate need of money, because she works at a factory and isn't paid enough to survive. So it's her first night as a street walker, and, she walks right up to an undercover cop and asks him if he would pay her for sex. Then all the cops have evil intentions with her, and V saves her from them. I do like what they did with Gordon in the movie. In the book, Gordon is an older guy who Evey stays with. He seems like a decent guy, but he's not a talk show host. That whole plotline was invented for the movie. Evey is about to kill someone when she is taken to "jail". I would say they kept the whole prison thing pretty much the same. There is no announcement that the bombs will go off in a year. In fact, the police figure out the connections to the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, and think everything is over, because V kind of just disappears for 6 months. So, how Evey gets "Away" from V in the comics, before she ends up with Gordon, is, she basically asks V why he hasn't tried to have sex with her. V says he has to show her something, and blindfolds her, and takes her away. When she takes the blindfold off, he's gone, she's in the middle of a neighborhood and doesn't know how to get back to V's hideout. She moves in with Gordon and he is killed, and she gets a gun to get revenge but she's captured before she can use it. The ending is pretty different too. There's no action scene against 10 people, just the cop. Basically the cop does drugs, and goes to Larkhill, and kind of, walks the same path V would have taken the night of the fire. (Oh, and the comic explains that V worked in the garden growing the food, and flowers. There was a food shortage so, flowers were rare, it's also clear that he's the one that started the fire, using fertilizer and other stuff. So the cop (Mr. Finch), tripping on psychedelic drugs, finds his way to V's hideout. He shoots V and thinks V is dead, V threw knives at him so, he goes back to the police station and says he killed V. V makes his way back to Evey before he dies and says "First, you must discover whose face lies behind this mask, but you must never know my face. Is that quite clear?" She actually imagines taking the mask off, and, it's just, a normal face. Someone we've obviously never seen before. It means nothing. Then she imagines it again, and it's someone else. It kind of hits home how, there's no reveal that would add anything. It would just be a face. So the end of the comic has Evey dressing up as V, and showing up in public. See, V did announce that he would be showing up at a certain time and blowing things up. So since he's dead, it's up to Evey to become the new V. The whole thing with all the people in the masks was just done for the movie. I think the book was much better. What I like better about the movie, well, V's voice is great. And I don't mind the change to Gordon's character, specifically making him a closeted gay guy. But that's only because I didn't particularly like the book version. Let's see, what else? Oh, in the book V had access to all the feeds from the cameras all over the place. There's an amazing speech where V talks to Lady Justice. Oh, and Evey doesn't spill the beans to the priest and try to get him to help her. She hits him with a lamp in the book. Finally, this song wasn't in the movie and that's tragic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO4tQ6_ygdU
Cory Silver
2024-11-25 01:46:37 +0000 UTCI definitely agree with 2002!
Peter Moe
2024-11-06 05:37:50 +0000 UTCAs well as the one with Richard Chamberlain. Either one is excellent.
3dbadboy1
2024-10-29 23:13:40 +0000 UTCYou talked about watching the Count of Monte Cristo in the future. I highly recommend the 2002 version of the film starring Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, and Richard Harris.
Cody Price
2024-10-29 19:23:56 +0000 UTCI'm absolutely convinced the Wachowskis ghost directed this, or one of them did. James McTteigue has never made anything this good since. His movies show a severe lack of technical proficiency after this and it just feels like this was either a fluke, or not really his film.
djKENTO
2024-10-29 18:25:00 +0000 UTCNice, love this movie and just in time for 5th of November!
Erik Stevenson
2024-10-29 16:22:53 +0000 UTCThe gentleman playing officer Dominic is Rupert Graves not Ricky Gervais.
Ramzi M. A. Ramzi
2024-10-29 15:42:31 +0000 UTC
