V for Vendetta
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TheArchitect
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V for Vendetta
Just read this a few days ago and loved it. Anyone else here read it?
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Duke
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Gah! I borrowed from a friend, got to the part in which I did not want to put it down, and then my friend wanted it back!
Duke
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
That's why you do what I did, read the whole thing in one day. Sure, I had homework to do, but i was READING Gorramit!
"Giving up is what kills people. It's only when you refuse to give up that you truly transcend your human self." Alucard, Hellsing by Kouta Hirano
Damnant quadnon intelligunt - They condemn what they do not understand.
Sibling Alchemical
Damnant quadnon intelligunt - They condemn what they do not understand.
Sibling Alchemical
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Duke
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I watched the trailer to the movie. It looks fantastic.
Duke
Duke
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
Looks like I'm going to have to watch this. This plot description sounds like a darker adult version, covering some of the same themes, as the old
"Knights of God" childrens' series.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~whosoc/tides/27.3.html
"Knights of God" childrens' series.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~whosoc/tides/27.3.html
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Duke
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I am going to hunt down a copy of the comic book, sometime before the movie goes out......................I have to.
Duke
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
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Duke
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Usually happens like that, when they turn a book into a movie. It's too bad, really.
Duke
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
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TheArchitect wrote:Yeah, it is a graphic novel. By the same guy who did Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. About a terrorist-like hero who blows up buildings in a fascist Britain and wears a Guy Fawkes mask.
Watchmen was great, in it's own special way.
Duke
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
--Mark Twain
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
--Woody Allen
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I really don't know about this. Some things work in comics, but they don't translate into films (none of the Batman films came close to "The Dark Knight Returns" even though that was the book that sparked the Batman revival).
V for Vendetta was very much a "Batman vs Big Brother" fantasy. An almost supernaturally enabled human being was able to be anywhere, do whatever he wished, and have access to everything.
It struck me as being naive because it swept under the carpet the implications of V's actions. Utter chaos, total anarchy. What system did V expect to emerge from this - a loving and benevolent society? More likely a splintered feudalist country, or a more vicious version of the previous regime.
V for Vendetta was very much a "Batman vs Big Brother" fantasy. An almost supernaturally enabled human being was able to be anywhere, do whatever he wished, and have access to everything.
It struck me as being naive because it swept under the carpet the implications of V's actions. Utter chaos, total anarchy. What system did V expect to emerge from this - a loving and benevolent society? More likely a splintered feudalist country, or a more vicious version of the previous regime.
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That is kind of the point. It is entirely possible that V is completely insane and really is doing nothing that will really help the world. The ramifications of this thing in fact he left to someone else to deal with. Evey deals with everything after V dies, so he doesn't really have to worry about it.
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Tattoo
A mate of mine loved V so much he had a tattoo of V done on his arm!
The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.
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