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V for Vendetta starred Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Steven Fry. It was a mainstream Hollywood movie which took over $132 million at the box office. It was
by russellallen 16y ago
V for Vendetta starred Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Steven Fry. It was a mainstream Hollywood movie which took over $132 million at the box office. It was a Warner Bros film, a subsidiary of Times Warner which is "the world's second largest entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behind Disney and ahead of News Corporation and Viacom), as well as the world's largest media conglomerate".
Your dreams of anarchism were manufactured in a bottle and sold to you on a silver screen.
Grow up.
(Edit: as acknowledged below, the final 'grow up' is a bit snarky. Sorry, that's withdrawn)
- chailatte 16y agoV for vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd. In writing V for Vendetta, Moore drew upon an idea for a strip titled The Doll, which he had submitted at the age of 22 to DC Thomson.
- russellallen 16y agoOh I knew everyone would say "But it was a graphic novel". Bar humbug. Anonymous all wear plastic masks from the movie at protests for a start.
- pyre 16y agoMaybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the masks were in the graphic novel too.
- kariatx 16y agoNot exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
- lurker17 16y agohttps://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendetta https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/V_for_Vendett... """ V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Graphic-Novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation in 2006. """
- andrewljohnson 16y agoDown-voted, not because I disagree with you (though I do), but rather down-voted for being both snarky and cliched. Your comment would have sat better without the "grow up" there at the end.
- russellallen 16y agoFair enough. It was a bit snarky. I withdraw it.
- ladon86 16y agoYes, and 1984 is a book which has sold over 25 million copies for a publisher which is now an imprint of Random House which is owned by Bertelsmann (2009 revenue €15b). That doesn't diminish its value as a work of art or as a cultural reference point.