The Legacy of Freedom Fighters or the Beauty of Capitalism

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2006)

The most important thing that anyone will ever remember about Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is that he was on a t-shirt worth $9.95. I'm sure el Che would be so proud. d With plenty of special effects and changes to the script, the graphic novel becomes a different film. It goes from being about anarchy in the UK to an American left wing, Hollywood/political machination.
If the script was written in the 90s, and the graphic novel written in the 80s, how could it possibly include slights against Dubya? So people would watch and love it and feel a little more like a rebel when they buy the special deluxe edition 2-disc director's cut unrated edition for $24.99.
The movie is suddenly more popular and especially more marketable than the book once it's against Bush. Because it's popular these days. The media must be controlled and must have an enemy. Wait, 'adapting' a book to follow a political agenda, doesn't that sound a little too Orwellian? I doubt they would've have made the film honestly if it didn't have an ulterior motive.
And if you polish some of V's less attractive attributes (let's have him make Evey eggs in a basket because it makes him more of a swell guy), he seems so much more likable after such a small gesture. V is an amoral antihero, with no qualms about murder. But the movie clarifies the black and white so you don't have to, because they don't want the audience to question V's motives, just smile and nod.
Quoting Alan Moore:"(The movie) has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's 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." If the guy who wrote the original wants nothing to do with the movie, to quote one of my least favorite comedians "there's your sign".