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jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-18 21:17:00

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Entry tags:	creator: alan moore, creator: david lloyd, publisher: dc comics, theme: iran, title: v for vendetta

The Real Climax of V For Vendetta
In solidarity with and support for the people of Iran, a moment of melodramatic liberation from Moore & Lloyd: the climax to V For Vendetta that the makers of the film didn't think was good enough.

(c)DC Comics.
And please support the protesters.

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killermoth1
2009-06-19 02:41 am UTC (link)

Simply marvellous, it's really a book that you appreciate more every time you read it.

Though I felt that the filmmakers did a couple of things that was better than the book, though the product was inferior. For one, the first half of the awesome V speech, before it dragged to the point where you could tell they had to look hard through a dictionary to find the appropriate words. The ending explosion in the book I also felt should've been given more than one small panel, so I liked the bigger exposure in the film.

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psychop_rex
2009-06-20 03:33 am UTC (link)

I think the book would have been much better if it hadn't started life as a story serialized in umpty-umpty short little chapters. Out of necessity, the plot is stretched out to the point where I actually got a little impatient with it on the first reading - the length between significant plot points is a tad frustrating. If he'd done it as a miniseries, it probably would have flowed much better. (Of course, he did the 'Jaspers Warp' storyline in Captain Britain largely in the short-little-bits format, and I persoanlly think that's one of the best things he's ever done, but then that was a different type of story, and he didn't have to create the characters as he went along.) Also, I thought the movie had a bit more logic to its plot in certain ways - V blowing up Parliament as the climax of the film rather than the beginning makes more sense to me, given the Guy Fawkes parallel - it works better as a glorious last gesture. Also, the bit at the end with all the masks is just glorious. Mind you, I loved the book, too - if nothing else, it gave us the 'Vicious Cabaret' sequence, which is a great little bit, and Moore is Moore - but generally speaking, I prefer the movie.
Incidentally, I don't mean to sound like I'm giving a sales pitch or anything, but if you're into 'VfV', there's a message board I've been posting on for a while called 'V for Vendetta 2'. It is, in theory, anyway, devoted to discussing the book and movie (although we've branched out into a lot of other stuff by now). We're very short of active participants at the moment, so if you'd care to check it out...

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	stuka_junker88 2009-06-19 06:15 am UTC (link)
	That would be because anonymous seems to have hijackd the Iran protests. (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-06-19 08:35 am UTC (link)
	"you always did love a man in uniform" (Reply to this)