“Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot.”
“I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should Ever be Forgot!”

It is that time of the year again!

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  • livus@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    @elbarto777 I felt the same way as @Xariphon . For me the book is anti fascism so it’s a critique of the ideology of fascism but it’s also nuanced and critical of aspects of the V character who is quite problematic.

    The movie is more about “fascism we don’t like” (with clear US political references) and V is made more unambiguously heroic and even romantic, with Evie falling in love with him and the crowds on his side (i.e crypto-democratic leader).

    Alan Moore on the film:

    [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.