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Interestingly, Alan Moore manages to miss the point and be spot-on at the same time. Nowhere does he seem to cotton to the nature of Anonymous, the disavowal o
by Helianthus 15y ago
Interestingly, Alan Moore manages to miss the point and be spot-on at the same time.
Nowhere does he seem to cotton to the nature of Anonymous, the disavowal of identity that accompanies taking up the mask: even though _he himself_ demonstrated the succession of V.
But that's perhaps to be expected; the movie necessarily completed the image of the mask by making it abundantly clear that it is when the _group_ takes up the mask that the mask has power. You cannot punish one if you must punish all.
At the same time, he is clearly in tune with the movement. "Today's response to similar oppressions seems to be one that is intelligent, constantly evolving and considerably more humane."
All in all I read (if I may) V for Valediction from a man who thanks the movement for validating his work, and encourages the next generation just as an intellectual parent ought.
And also like a good intellectual parent, he points to his own heritage... "Some ghosts never go away..."
- Hemospectrum 15y agoFor what it's worth, he hasn't seen the movie. Any differences in message between his comic and the adaptation have either found him strictly via hearsay or are lost on him entirely.
- icebraining 15y agoHe hasn't seen the movie, but he did read its script: I've read the screenplay, so I know exactly what they're doing with it, and I'm not going to be going to see it. http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060315/ http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/m/moore_alan_060...
- jacobolus 15y ago> Nowhere does he seem to cotton to the nature of Anonymous By “cotton” did you mean “caught on”?
- ims 15y agoThis is an idiom. http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010312 http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010312
- lambda 15y agohttp://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010312 http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010312
- dsr_ 15y agoColloquial American English expression, used appropriately. "To cotton to" is to understand and possibly enjoy a phenomenon -- it's always a positive connotation.
- zheng 15y agoDon't know why you're being down-voted, I've never heard the term either.
- anamax 15y ago> You cannot punish one if you must punish all. That's mindless twaddle. "if you must punish all" is never true. In fact, you usually don't want to punish all. And, you can always punish one.