EARLY RELEASE: YT CUT V for Vendetta
Added 2025-03-24 19:41:08 +0000 UTCHope you enjoy
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Kevin Landon
2025-03-24 23:59:44 +0000 UTCThe politics of the movie were made much more vague than it was in the original graphic novel. In the GN, V wasn't a "freedom fighter", he was specifically an Anarchist. Anarchism is an actual philosophy, and during the government overthrow he admitted that it was possible that his anarchism would devolve into chaos that might actually be worse than the current oppressive regime. He hopes otherwise, he hopes that it will lead to a better society, but the the story is far less certain. The Norsefire political party -- which is never named in the film but is shown on-screen once -- is a white supremacist and xenophobic party directly based on the Nazi party. It wasn't just 'oppressive', it was explicitly genocidal. It was reflective of the rise of Neo-Nazism in the UK in the '80s. When the movie first came out I was on the side of the people who said it was cowardice to walk all of this back, since it was the whole POINT of the GN. It felt like they were too worried about offending people, and just caved for the sake of avoiding controversy, since if they didn't want to make the same points why adapt THIS story? Now...I think it may have been the right idea, since the film can be continuously applicable from different angles. The problems we have now aren't the SAME problems, although they're very closely aligned, and the message can still connect. I'm not 100% on board, but closer to thinking it was the right idea than I was back then.
JBK405
2025-03-24 23:22:49 +0000 UTCGuy fawkes night has been remembered on the 5th of November 1605, crazy for a failed plot
ElmSt Reactions
2025-03-24 21:34:41 +0000 UTCGreat movie, guy fawkes night was great growing up, stealing people's gates to build our bonfire 🤣🤣
ElmSt Reactions
2025-03-24 21:21:56 +0000 UTC😂🤙
Badd Medicine
2025-03-24 20:07:47 +0000 UTCRemember Remember the...25th of March? Close enough! Never a bad time to react to this!
Chris Breezy
2025-03-24 19:49:12 +0000 UTC
