Hugo Weaving! Natalie Portman! I Can't wait! Does anyone know the release date? (I already checked, frame609, and Nov 5 2005 is a Saturday, so I dont think the release is this year... Maybe though...)
Any of you guys see or hear about this yet?
<a href="http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/">People Should Not Be Afraid Of Their Governments. Governments Should Be Afraid Of Their People.</a>
Very timely -- more so in the USA than Britain I would say. Let's hope people actually take it to heart, instead of just eat popcorn...
I'm excited more Alan Moore is coming to film!
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Per the bio on producer <a href= "http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/cmp/bio_joel.html"> Joel Silver</a>
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Producer Silver (sort of) alludes to the fact he owns the option to the Watchmen. Is it being worked on? Maybe a dork (umm I mean message) board on IMDB or Hollywoodreporter would have more up to date info...
Question 10: [V For Vendetta] is such a great piece of material, how did you become acquainted with it, and why did you want to make a movie out of it?
Joel Silver: I don't know. Is Alan's name on the movie, though? I don't even know. I mean, he did write the material and he created the material. I read it in '88, when I also read Watchmen for the first time, and I was able to acquire both those at the same time in '88. I was able to acquire Watchmen and V, and over the years, Watchmen changed hands, but I was able to hold onto V, and when the Wachowski Brothers said they really wanted to do it, then we really kind of amped it up again and had it made. I mean, I think Alan is a genius. I think he's incredibly... kind of a visionary, gifted, genius guy, and you know, anything he touches - I also am involved in Swamp Thing , which he's been involved in too - so I keep finding my way back to him. But, you know, he's been very clear with us that he doesn't really want to have anything to do with what, you know, we're doing on these movies, but he does create them, and they're out there in the world, and thankfully, you know, David Lloyd is here, and he was very supportive of what we were doing. I'm just happy that I was able to put this together with an incredible cast - with Natalie, with the boys - and to really, you know, make what I think is a really effective and inspired motion picture.
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Dawn, Frame and the ladewtang did see the trailer for <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0358273/">'Walk the Line'</a> with J. Phoneix as the man in black and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter though... hopefully that'll come out sooner rather than later..
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a little buzz / nod for the film in question that looks to have a <a href="http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies/documents/05175156.asp">March 2006 release</a>.
the <a href="http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/trailer_2.html">2nd Trailer</a> (in bitchin Hi Def as one of the many options nonetheless)is also now available.
RSN fieldtrip anyone?
Frame?
Good for Honar!
<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/emaf.nsf/Popup?ReadForm&db=stltoday%5Cnews%5Cstories.nsf&docid=9B76BA4A1A51D52A862570E80072B913">ACLU keeping it real V for Vendetta style.</a> So awesome.
As Null P. quoted: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
"Redditt Hudson, who heads the ACLU's racial justice program, said, 'It's not like we needed their clearance.'"
Makes me proud to be an American. I love this country.
Sorry, if I take 'V for Vendetta' politics to heart.
If so, want to hit an earlier show of V for Vendetta? Anyone else?
If you aren't, anyone want to go see it with me tomorrow night?
That's what I was told in Tufts' History of Punk, at least.
I think you are giving <strong>ANY</strong> government a little too much credit for these (or any other) talents' output.
How bout we schedule a RSN IMAX field trip if it is a film worth seeing more than once?
The reviews I have read on Rotten Tomatoes have been mixed... I am still crazy excited, though.
NYT last weekend had an interesting 'Alan Moore and Hollywood' feature.
Bottom line if you haven't guessed it already: HE HATES IT.
Would the Dead Kennedys have thrived anywhere other than California of the late '70s and early '80s under Jerry Brown?
I'd agree that artists are probably not attempting to enter into a dialogue about specific government practices, however, if government is a reflection of society than that must creep into (some) artists's consciousness.
Yeah, I said it: Bruce Springsteen is the greatest musical voice in dissent of the Reagan milieu.
1.<strong>Street Fightin' Man</strong>
2. What if it had been the Capitol instead of Parliament? (replaying the images from Indepence Day and the Front Cover Of Bad Brains's Debut Tape/LP)
3. Didn't like how they needed to 'modernize' it with awkward references to the internet, bird flu, Iraq, plasma (or at least a huge honking 16:9 flat and wide screen) TV's in V's lair.
4. Did like the overall mise en scene specifically in V's lair (James Cagney posters, swords, incredible music, nice high ceilings,)
<b>V</b>. The John Hurt = Hitler imagery was as subtle as a bag of hammers, although coming from a comic book, that and the "t" like imagery of the government's seal made for instant "love to hate" reactions from the audience, myself included.(I also couldn't help but think of the 80's miniseries <i>V</i> when looking at all the black and red. A lot of fun in this context, even though you know you are being manipulated.
6. No way that Stephen Rea's character would have just stood there with drool on his shirt while a beautifully photographed Evey nonchalantly decides to ram parliament with tons of home made c4
7. The roman candleish fireworks garnish of the headlining explosion of the film's climax was dumb. Im sure true revolutionaries really want a bit of Disneyland in their destruction.
8.Tens of Thousands of Guy Fawlkes as an image was awesome.
9."A Graphic Novel Illustrated By David Lloyd"? even though I knew about this from all the press, it still felt weird when watching all the titles.
10. Overall, the most fun Ive had at the movies in a while. Although cartoonish, which I spose is inevitable, and being a bit heavy handed, it was a fun ride, one of which I would love to see again in IMAX where hopefully Springfield hoodsters won't be talking on their cell phones...
I loved the, "A code yellow alert has been declared. There is an eleven pm curfew. This curfew is for your protection," bits. Just so reminesent of the bullshit one hears at T stops. Some satire, some story. I enjoyed the almost nonexistant love-story, very un-Hollywood.
Sometimes boring watching a mask whose mouth doesn't move. Editors dream though...
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I was thinking about this earlier. The Wachowskis had a lot of film clout after they made the first Matrix movie. They were in a position in which Hollywood would allow them to do anything they wanted, essentially for any amount of money. And they chose to make the Matrix sequels. I said it then and I'll say it again now. They should have been run out of town, never allowed to even _see_ a movie again. The Matrix sequels were that offensive.
"V for Vendetta" was the channel 4 selection on British Airways flights from the UK during the month of July. Channel 1 was "She Hate Me", I believe.
Random thoughts:
* Is the hooded prisoner imagery in the comic book? I wonder how much of the imprisonment scenes came about from asking: "Is America doing that right now?"
* Evey's quick turn from revulsion to love was possibly the most unbelievable part of the storyline.
* I appreciated that the civilian police force was the "good guys" within the government, although it was a national police force.
* Did I really see a "STOP BUSH" sign in one of the news montages? Maybe I was just superimposing about half the graffiti I've seen in Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest.