“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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      • Xariphon@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        … I’m trying to remember what my gripe was. It’s not anarchist enough? Too much vendetta not enough revolution? Book V had a vision for the future, Movie V only had revenge?

        Fuck me guess it’s time to reread and rewatch and remind myself why I thought that.

      • livus@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year 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.

    • Damaskox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Hmm. Depends probably on do you leave the knives out, have paper/cardboard/plastic knives or real fighter knives with the costume!

      An easier Halloween costume is Ghostface. No trousers and a shirt/jacket but a robe.
      My friend drew the outline of the knife he uses in the movie in cardboard and I added many layers, getting a nice, thicker cardboard knife!