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V for Vendetta
Mar. 22nd, 2006 01:50 pmBecause I lack the resolve of Mr. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carnaaki, I cannot help myself but wanting to share my impression of that film with the lot of you.
First of all, because this sort of question tends to pop up sooner or later, yes, I have read the book, I thought it was great and Alan Moore, IMHO, is one of the best authors in his field alive today. On the other hand, I never got to like the film-version of "From Hell" quite as much as I thought it might deserve. Reading the book did not make me like it more, but at least I realised that it was probably not possible making a film that would do it justice, anyway."From Hell" needs its footnotes and annotations and these things are difficult to do on film.
"League of extraordinary Gentlemen", on the other hand, could have made a very good film. Shame that the result made me think I had just seen the worst film of the year. Wrongly, as it turned out a few weeks later when I saw "Van Helsing", but "LXG" is a true piece of shit in its own right and particularly compared to the graphic novel.
So my hopes for "V for Vendetta" were not very high, especially when I heard the rumour that they wanted to use the old "Germany won the war"-trick to explain the rise of fascism in the UK.
Still, I had to see, I had to know. And fortunately, I was not disappointed.
Yes, the film could have been a fair bit better and you do feel the american influence very strongly in some parts, but on the whole, it is reasonably clever and does not wimp out from the moral dubiosity and violence of the book. Yes, the Finger-men towards the beginning get away with their lives, but a vendetta is a revenge of blood and blood is being shed in this film, oh yes.
( Here be SPOILERS )
In the end, however, it somehow works, it makes for an interesting two hours, even if I felt like they had to majorly rush things towards the beginning to fit everything in. But it works, even "Valerie" makes an appearance. This is not a conversion in the way that "Sin City" is, but, with all due respect to Mr. Moore, who decided to disassociate himself from this production, this is, without a doubt, the best conversion of one of his books so far.
Now somehow just has to impress me and come up with a version of "Watchmen" able to beat it.
I am not that optimistic, though.
England prevails!
*As per usual, the question of "What exactly is going to happen the next morning?" is not being answered.
carnaaki, I cannot help myself but wanting to share my impression of that film with the lot of you.First of all, because this sort of question tends to pop up sooner or later, yes, I have read the book, I thought it was great and Alan Moore, IMHO, is one of the best authors in his field alive today. On the other hand, I never got to like the film-version of "From Hell" quite as much as I thought it might deserve. Reading the book did not make me like it more, but at least I realised that it was probably not possible making a film that would do it justice, anyway."From Hell" needs its footnotes and annotations and these things are difficult to do on film.
"League of extraordinary Gentlemen", on the other hand, could have made a very good film. Shame that the result made me think I had just seen the worst film of the year. Wrongly, as it turned out a few weeks later when I saw "Van Helsing", but "LXG" is a true piece of shit in its own right and particularly compared to the graphic novel.
So my hopes for "V for Vendetta" were not very high, especially when I heard the rumour that they wanted to use the old "Germany won the war"-trick to explain the rise of fascism in the UK.
Still, I had to see, I had to know. And fortunately, I was not disappointed.
Yes, the film could have been a fair bit better and you do feel the american influence very strongly in some parts, but on the whole, it is reasonably clever and does not wimp out from the moral dubiosity and violence of the book. Yes, the Finger-men towards the beginning get away with their lives, but a vendetta is a revenge of blood and blood is being shed in this film, oh yes.
( Here be SPOILERS )
In the end, however, it somehow works, it makes for an interesting two hours, even if I felt like they had to majorly rush things towards the beginning to fit everything in. But it works, even "Valerie" makes an appearance. This is not a conversion in the way that "Sin City" is, but, with all due respect to Mr. Moore, who decided to disassociate himself from this production, this is, without a doubt, the best conversion of one of his books so far.
Now somehow just has to impress me and come up with a version of "Watchmen" able to beat it.
I am not that optimistic, though.
England prevails!
*As per usual, the question of "What exactly is going to happen the next morning?" is not being answered.
