V for Vendetta

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November.

Last year I borrowed a graphic novel from my friend Latiff and read it to death. I simply fell in love with Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. It’s one of the best stand alone graphic novels I have ever read and was pretty excited when I heard the graphic novel was made into a movie.

Last week I came upon news that Alan Moore bashed the Wachowskis - Andy and his transgender brother, Larry – for their limited imagination and muted vision for the movie.

I have watched the film, ironically it was with my friend Latiff, and feel that the Wachowskis are trying to make something that will play as a film, but that evokes the spirit of the graphic novel. The movie is, by design, less complex, less dense. Some of my favorite material from the book is simply gone.

But it is still an entertaining movie to watch if you are willing to forgive the Wachowskis for their short sightedness. I did enjoy the movie and very much like to watch it again.

But as a fan of the graphic novel I am disgusted on how Hollywood always ends up killing the source material. If you don’t believe me, look at catwoman, fantastic four, the horrendous League and Hulk.

And for all of you who are clueless about this movie, I have written a short sypnosis to explain what V for Vendetta is all about.

Sypnosis
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a young working-class woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by "V."

Profoundly complex, V is at once literary, flamboyant, tender and intellectual, a man dedicated to freeing his fellow citizens from those who have terrorized them into compliance. He is also bitter, revenge-seeking, lonely and violent, driven by a personal vendetta.

In his quest to free the people of England from the corruption and cruelty that have poisoned their government, V condemns the tyrannical nature of their appointed leaders and invites his fellow citizens to join him in the shadows of Parliament on November the 5th – Guy Fawkes Day.

On that day in 1605, Guy Fawkes was discovered in a tunnel beneath Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder. He and his co-conspirators had engineered the treasonous "Gunpowder Plot" in response to the tyranny of their government under James I. Fawkes and his fellow saboteurs were hanged, drawn and quartered, and their plan to take down their government never came to pass.

In the spirit of that rebellion, in remembrance of that day, V vows to carry out the plot that Fawkes was executed for attempting on November 5th in 1605: he will blow up Parliament.

As Evey uncovers the truth about V’s mysterious past, she also discovers the truth about herself – and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to ignite a revolution, bringing freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.

So till my next post ya, its bye from Ganz.

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