Alan Moore, however, distanced himself from the film sight unseen, as he has with every screen adaptation of his works to date. He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie.[9] 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]
I'd scanned it, but never seen all that, no. Even with the double-crosses thing in the film, though, I never likened it to Bush simply because I read the book and knew better.
I'm hoping to get a few friends to buy masks for next Halloween. I'm planning ahead, because throwing things together last minute didn't work out so well this year. lol.
Blame it on Alan Moore. But yeah, that must be weird. For what it's worth, I don't know of anyone doing the traditional things you do, we just say "Woot! Gunpowder!" and get on with our day...
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New world record!
Flattered....
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Alan Moore, however, distanced himself from the film sight unseen, as he has with every screen adaptation of his works to date. He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie.[9] 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]
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Now here's the interesting thing, though.
England has always celebrated November 5th because Fawkes failed.
But November 5th is starting to be celebrated in other countries because Fawkes tried.
It's not a reaction to the English government, per se... it's a reaction to government grown too big for its britches. Period.
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