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Perhaps the censors believed its topic was aimed at Britain, or the West, and didn't look hard at its (arguably distorted) philosophic viewpoint against fascist
by sageikosa 14y ago
Perhaps the censors believed its topic was aimed at Britain, or the West, and didn't look hard at its (arguably distorted) philosophic viewpoint against fascist totalitarianism. I haven't seen the whole movie (prefer to keep my memories of the graphic novel intact, and I trust that when Alan Moore says it strayed from his vision, it strayed).
The Italians allowed a film version of Ayn Rand's "We the Living" to be produced because they believed it was a biting criticism of Soviet Russia, before someone realized its philosophic disposition was anti-totalitarianism. Could be sort of the same thing...
- pretoriusB 14y ago>The Italians allowed a film version of Ayn Rand's "We the Living" to be produced because they believed it was a biting criticism of Soviet Russia, before someone realized its philosophic disposition was anti-totalitarianism. Could be sort of the same thing... And why would "the Italians" have a problem with either praise of Soviet Russia or anti-totalitarianism? They are a democracy, you know, and they have both millions of people pro and against Soviet Russia (the communist party was huge in Italy), and pro and against totalitarianism. That said, knowing Ayn Rand, the film would be mostly pro-neoliberal totalitarianism of "special" individuals...
- potatolicious 14y ago> "And why would "the Italians" have a problem with either praise of Soviet Russia or anti-totalitarianism?" The movie in question was made in 1942, during the reign of Mussolini and his facists.
- sageikosa 14y agoYes, I omitted that detail, it was foremost in my mind though.
- pretoriusB 14y agoIsn't it obvious how omitting this detail --that he talks of a 70 year old movie-- changes the whole, err, picture?
- scott_s 14y agoProbably because he's referring to the 1942 version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035130/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035130/), during which time Italy was not a democracy.
- moconnor 14y agoBecause when Ayn Rand was produced, Italy was not a democracy - it was under the fascist dictatorship of Mussolini.
- runn1ng 14y agoIt became famous thanks to internet movement that did not have much to do with the movie (or the book) in the first place...
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoUh... I don't know about that, the movie was pretty famous/well viewed well before anonymous showed up. It was a big Hollywood production after all. Produced in the still trending vein of "lets make comic books into movies" fad.
- haukilup 14y agoIn the context of why a country would want to sensor the content, the fact that it was adopted by anonymous is very significant. Sure, it was a "big Hollywood production", but the use of the Guy Fawkes masks as representing anonymity is not something to brush off, nor overlook.
- Millennium 14y agoNot really. The people who refer to it as the "V mask" have it more or less right; this is about people who want to feel dark and edgy like a nineties anti-hero. Most of the people who use this symbol nowadays have little if any clue what Guy Fawkes did, and would likely be so horrified if they knew that they'd find another mask.
- illuminate 14y ago"It became famous thanks to internet movement" The internet movement revived its fame, it was a very successful comic and movie well-before Anon took up the mask for Chanology.
- pnathan 14y agoSorry about the downvote! mouse click error!
- Maro 14y agoThe movie is much better than the graphic novel!