V for Vendetta

[unionworks]

Just obtained the full graphic novel from my local library. I am eagerly turning pages. How different from the movie.

[DocMac]

1. If you care to watch this movie:

Look for "Equalibrium" With Christian Bale.

It may have been the movie that launched his career.

Trust me, it's good.

[Electric Monk]

8. Nah, that would be Empire of the Sun (1987) that 'launched' his career.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092965/

[DocMac]

13. I'll have to find that movie.

Equalibrium is a lot like V for Vendetta.

The people are under the thumb of the state and he is an agent for the state. But he learns that he is on the wrong side.

[sabrina 1]

2. I saw the movie but want to see it again in perspective to OWS.

V for Vendetta’s Alan Moore, David Lloyd Join Occupy Comics

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/alan-moore-occupy-comics/

Tireless activist Moore has long lamented our disturbing creep toward totalitarianism, exploring the topic in V for Vendetta — which unleashed the ubiquitous, grinning Guy Fawkes mask that’s been worn by members of Anonymous and the Occupy movement — as well as in Watchmen and most recently The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1969, which darkly closed out the surreal yet optimistic ’60s to make way for a dispirited, destructive ’70s and beyond.

Moore knows more than many how much the Occupy movement means to those who watched as last century’s activist spirit was siphoned away by mindless consumption and militarism.

“My actual feelings about the ’60s are that, yes, of course we had limitations,” Moore told Wired.com in an extensive July interview ahead of LXG: 1969‘s Comic-Con International premiere. “We talked a lot of shit, and we didn’t have the muscle to back it up. For the most part, we had good intentions. However, we were not able to implement those intentions. And when the state started to take us seriously and initiated countermeasures, the majority of us folded like bitches. Not all of us, but a good number. We weren’t up for the struggle that had sounded so great in our manifestos.”

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Predictably, that struggle has cropped up again in the wake of last century’s overlooked political and economic inequities, as well the still-new century’s uniquely dystopian nightmares. (Infinite detention for Americans? WTF, Congress?) Moore has rarely missed the chance to lend his name to righteous causes, as his recent support for the late, great Harvey Pekar’s memorial, as well as an excellent takedown of Frank Miller’s Occupy paranoia, illustrate quite nicely.

That was another nice endorsement to have for OWS.

[Generic Other]

4. I watched the film outdoors with other occupiers

We all wore V masks that night. The 6th of November. Projected the film in the park, on a monument with a sheet thrown over it. It was cold. There was popcorn.
It all seemed so true.

They evicted the last die-hard occupiers in my town last Sunday.

I'm not sure what I am feeling at the moment.

[unionworks]

5. years from now

....you will feel proud that you didn't sit on your butt doing nothing as the country got flushed down the toilet

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. Wait, wut

Harvey Pekar died?

[unionworks]

3. The ink is faded

The book looks like it has been through hundreds of hands. As I turn every page I feel my soul bonding with those who went before me. Solidarity.

[backscatter712]

7. Fills in some plot holes... Introduces some new sub-plots.

It's awesome!

[unionworks]

9. It's just getting better

...the further I get into it!

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. I actually have yet to read V For Vendetta, but I'm a big fan of Watchmen.

It's widely regarded as the "Ulysses" of graphic novels.

[unionworks]

11. thanks

I will chheck it out!

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. Read the book before you watch the movie :-)

Watchmen the movie is an "above average, action-packed" comic book movie, like Dark Knight, but a bit excessive...
the graphic novel is considered one of the best books of the 20th century (and the only comic book to make the list)

It's usually described as the "Citizen Kane" of comic books but the James Joyce comparison is more apt, because Alan Moore literally wrote every panel to tie into every other panel. For instance, one entire chapter is a palindrome. Here's a clip from the "motion comic" that was produced as a tie-in: