I had no intentions on seeing this flix. I just thought it looked too corny with the guy in the mask.
Anywho, nothing else I really cared to see was in my Netflix queue, so I looked at some of the new releases:
The Shaggy Dog, Bratz: Livin’ it Up, or Curb Your Enthusiasm (CYE): The Complete Fifth Season.
Now, I dig CYE, but didn’t care to start re-watching the season again. So, it was between “V” and the others. Therefore, I said what the heck, I will watch “V”, and from the moment it started. It got my hooked. Great freaking movie. I knew I shouldn’t have doubted the Wachowski brothers.
Today though while surfing Wikipedia I saw something about Moore’s reaction after reading the script.
From Wikipedia…
After reading the script, Moore remarked that his comic had been “turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country… This film is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives ? which is not what the comic ‘V for Vendetta’ was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.”
He later adds that if the Wachowskis had wanted to protest what was going on in America, then they should have used a political narrative that spoke directly at America’s issues, similar to what Moore had done before with Britain.[10] The film changes the original message by arguably having changed “V” into a freedom fighter instead of an anarchist. An interview with producer Joel Silver suggests that the change may not have been conscious; he identifies the V of the graphic novel as a clear-cut “superhero…a masked avenger who pretty much saves the world,” a simplification that goes against Moore’s own statements about V’s role in the story."
[b]There is also pervasive use of biometric identification and signal-intelligence gathering and analysis by the regime. Many have also noted the numerous references in the film to events surrounding the current American administration
hese include the “black bags” worn by the prisoners in Larkhill that have been seen as a reference to the black bags worn by prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guant?namo Bay in Cuba.
Also London is under a yellow-coded curfew alert, similar to the U.S. Government’s colour-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.
One of the forbidden items in Gordon’s secret basement is a protest poster with a mixed U.S.?UK flag with a swastika and the title “Coalition of the Willing, To Power.” This is likely a reference to the real “Coalition of the Willing” that was formed for the Iraq War. (At the same time, it also appears to be a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of Will to Power
As well, there is use of the term “rendition” in the film, in reference to the way the regime removes undesirables from society.
that contains real-life footage of an anti-Iraq war demonstration, with mention of President George W. Bush. Finally, the film contains reference’s to “America’s war” and “the war America started” as well as real footage from the Iraq War.
Much of the modern U.S. imagery is personified in the character Lewis Prothero. For example, his combat record seems to be an allusion to the war in Iraq and other parts of the Middle-East with strong political tensions (“Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria: before and after, Sudan”).
As the talk show host ?The Voice of London?, Prothero evokes the image of conservative American pundits like Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, (particularly with Prothero’s and Limbaugh’s drug use).
Furthermore, with his rhetoric about God, gays, and Muslims, Prothero is likely a caricature of religious right-wing commentators like Pat Robertson.
Despite the American specific references, the filmmakers have always referred to the film as adding dialogue to a set of issues much broader than the U.S. administration
When James McTeigue was asked whether or not BTN was based on Fox News McTeigue replied, "Yes. But not just Fox. Everyone is complicit in this kind of stuff. It could just as well been the British Sky News Channel.[/b]