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Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row
(Desolation Row- Bob Dylan, Watchmen- Alan Moore )
Ideas are bulletproof
it’s his day ...................
Counterpoint: the movie is an extremely watered-down and neutered version of the book which makes the utter hellscape of V's Britain into something far less horrific, and replaces the eternal threat of Actual Fascism with something more closely resembling the neoconservativism of early-2000s America
Additionally, the book has the fascists rising to power on the back of public terror after a nuclear exchange instead of an absurdly convoluted tale of them sneaking into power via a manufactured plague and a Byzantine series of patents and contracts - the idea of "it could happen here" is completely removed and with it like 50% of the moral of the story
Additionally @ whoever said V is implied to be a lesbian or a trans man - he very very very specifically isn't implied to be anyone and it's a key feature that you don't know who he is and you'll never know who he is because the entire point of the story is he could be anyone because ALL RESISTANCE TAKES IS ONE PERSON TO SAY NO (source: Alan Moore and his increasingly slender patience)
The movie is a fun enough romp to watch on a Sunday evening but the book deserves to be enshrined as a key text in the late 20th century western canon
seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay
First, the overture
Supposedly in regarding the Killing Joke, Alan Moore himself actually expressed regret working on that one, in particular for what it did to Barbara. Thoughts on this?
I agree that everyone should be uncomfortable with how Barbara Gordon was used. She was objectified, pure and simple. After being Batgirl for a lot of years, she was stripped of any sense of strength and used solely as a victim.
There was almost nothing of Barbara Gordon here, just a female body being used as a tool.
It gets worse from there as Barbara is posed nude. Why? Because Jim Gordon needed to further traumatized? No, not really. Showing pictures of a bleeding, shot but clothed Barbara would have worked just as well.
Part of it was the time period in which the book was done (1988). This kind of semi-erotic pandering was still considered more or less acceptable then, particularly in an age when DC was trying to establish itself in the adult (as in grown ups with money to spend in their hobby) graphic novel market. That said, the sexual subtext was completely unnecessary to the storyline then and the passage of time has made it more inappropriate when looked at today.
It's ironic that this twisted rape fantasy gave rise to one of DC's strongest female characters - Oracle.
To be honest, I will always prefer Oracle to Batgirl but that doesn't make what happened right.
So yes, Alan Moore should feel bad about what he did to Barbara Gordon in The Killing Joke. DC took a capable female superhero and objectified her. It was wrong then and it's still wrong now.
still mentally here in case any of you were wondering
What's the reason the film is superior to the actual comic in your opinion?
The Comic feels like Alan Moore slamming the reader for liking Victorian Era literature or having any semblance of affection for the era the stories reflect and represent. Alan Moore then goes on to crap about modern literature, and all that loathing and self-hate is topped with a generous helping of deliberately ugly art, and torrid sex scenes, that are just a tasteless comic-panel rant about his views on British literature across the ages.
The comic's characters also feel like Alan Moore deliberately twisted them to reflect his own, snake god cult views and base desires, instead of an adaptation that reflects the source material these characters came from. The Invisible Man is, perhaps, the most accurate to his source material. But Alan Moore probably did not need to think very hard.
The movie is Penny Dreadful Avengers, but at its core, it is heroic. All the heroes are in some way bound by horror, but they are still good people who try to deal with the blight they are afflicted by. The good guys embrace their horror traits with a dignity that makes you respect their decisions. The bad guys are so twisted by the horror traits that they have lost all humanity and their actions are driven by that lack of humanity.
There is also a very poignant story arc about the passing of the torch from one empire to the next, which, while probably not historically accurate, is still touching and allows the film to end on a hopeful note. Which I think reflects the Victorian Era to some degree: hope that there can be something better at the end of all the bullshit everyone had to shovel through back then.
Alan Moore's comic is just a mess of hatred and loathing that he is inflicting on the reader. The movie sends a message of encouragement to the audience that there is good even in darkness, and one should not act like a monster though life may force the traits of a monster upon you.
The movie genuinely makes one feel good about yourself and life in general. That is why IMO the movie is superior to the comic.
Gotta say, I think this is a great movie. But I wouldn't say it's the best adaptation. As great of a film as it is, it is emotionally draining and it's not something that I would consider watching repeatedly. I just can't get my head around Watchmen being two or three hours long. I always felt like the series depends on an almost-miniseries build-up.
No, it doesn't bother me at all that the Extra-Dimensional Biological Entity is not in it (however, if that bothers you, I understand, and you have my sympathies). The one change that bothered me was how they changed Rorschach's origin scene, because the filmmakers felt that it was way too similar to the climax of the first Saw movie, and my feeling on that is that Rorschach's origin was already a rip-off of Mad Max's origin. So why is this an issue now? Other than that, I really enjoyed this film.
As much as I don't like Zack Snyder, I can't deny that he is a brilliant visual creator and everything in the trailer seemed right, if not completely spot-on. To be totally honest, I even geeked out a little when I first saw it.
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore.
A story originally created to serve as a warning of what could possibly arise from the Thatcherite government of the 1980s, V for Vendetta has stood the test of time as one of the premier works of the comic book medium. A story that tells a tale of tyranny and the valiant effort made to thwart it that's as timeless as it is harrowing.
In my opinion, this is the very BEST Alan Moore ending in his entire body of work. 100%
Do you think Batman killed The Joker? Or did he have him sent back to Arkham?
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Originally ink / pen / more ink / 2016
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Original black and white cover for Gonzaï mag - issue 18
Ink / pen / 2016
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Original black and white cover for Gonzaï mag - issue 18
Ink / pen / 2016
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