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V FOR VENDETTA takes over London!
Hey folks, Harry here... I just recently got this script, haven't given it a read quite yet, been reading other items of personal interest as of late. However, Moriarty gave it a pair of eyes, and seemed to like it. Apparently Alan Moore doesn't... which is the first time Alan's spoken out against one of the films he's responsible for's source material. I have to say though, the pics linked below has me very interested in giving that script a read. How bout you?
Hi Harry
First time contribution.
Following on from Kurt Hectic's V for Vendetta script review earlier in the week, this morning's
London Evening Standard (yeah, I know, a contradiction in terms!) has got a bunch of pics of the
filming of the climatic rebellion scene outside the Houses of Parliament last night.
Interestingly, everyone seems to be wearing not 'V' masks, but ones featuring the face of Guy
Fawkes – the chap who tried to blow up our Parliament and the King a couple of hundred years ago.
Check out the Tanks in Parliamen Square link at This here, Locale!
Cheers
If you use this - I'll go by the handle of I _am_Caius
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Those are V masks for cripes sake. Der!
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I bloody despair - is this a joke or have you just not read the comic?
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An unholy travesty from the gibbering idiots behind the matrix turd.
This pic' proves the runours true and seems to support the script review read before. And I have one question...
If the source material is so strong (which it is) why turn it into this?
With films like Batman and the X Men the story can simpley be made for the film, but with V and the like it's all there there's no need to mess with it on these kinds of levels.
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Everybody running around in the V-masks. Horrible idea. Weren't they shooting in Berlin recently?
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I'm pretty sure they are.
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Everyone on here seems to quick to point out that the guy who sent the article made a mistake as to the origin of the mask. (Or even the YEAR Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament). Who gives a shit...the dude sent some cool pics, now shut the fuck up people.
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but the script review did sound like they weren't giving it it's due. "Are you, like, crazy or something?"
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... or not ...
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... or not ...
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On a recent visit to California was quite surprised about how little is known about Bonfire Night in the States. I also realized what a twisted tradition it is as I was explaining it. AGENT ALONZO. Explain. Never heard the 'Framed' angle before.
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So people are rebelling against the weather? It's CLIMACTIC, nimrod.
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lots of things on forums. Usually fan-pleasing things which don't come to much.
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Are both 'v' masks and 'guy fawkes' masks. V sets up his admiration of Fawkes right at the start when he says the little gunpowder treason poem while he blows up Parliament (completing Fawkes work, as it were).
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Thanks for the pics, I _am_Caius. I can't tell whether I'll dig the film yet, but I liked the look of the tank and uniformed soldiers. Hugo Weaving is one of my favorite actors, so I was heartened to hear he nabbed the role of V after that other guy "left." I have to believe Weaving will deliver a compelling performance, and hopefully Natalie Portman will work well against him in the film. I consider myself guardedly optimistic.
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I was one of the Extras in this crowd man. Filmed around Parliament Square. I was telling everyone that it would be in tha papers the following day straight away. Well cool. I just got off the plane that mornig from New York and my agent called me to do it. I was fucking knackered all night with jet lag still. About 500-600 Extras were there. We got lots of phone camera photos as proof too. Only worked about 4 hours of shooting, then packed up at 4.30 as the light was coming up. Had soldiers as Extras too, playing themselves as they had to hold the crowd back. Val Kilmer popped up the night before to visit the set also. Good fun night, real slow, not getting much doen. We did a scene in which the houses of Parliament are supposed to be on fire, and we take our masks off to watch it, and we have to camera shots, shooting our faces. So that tells you what happens a bit in the story. First night, loads fo people were trying to jump over the barricade and the soldiers were trying to stop us. One of the Extras got hurt and had to go to hospital. Not much more I can give away to the story really. But fuck man, our Rebel group actually attack and fuck up the Houses is pretty amazing. I'm off to read that actual article now man. Haven't even clicked the link.
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it was my understanding that moore did in fact get paid for the rights to "from hell" and "the league," and it was due to his experiences w/ hollywood on those productions... particularly w/ league and a lawsuit that arose from it that led to his "my name off the picture/all money to the artists" policy.
initially, moore was more than happy to take the money in order to keep working on his projects, afford first editions of austin spare books, eat and all the rest that a middle-aged magus might need cash for. however, he had no interest in seeing the films based on his work or commenting on them... it was a different thing than his work, and he didn't care. in several interviews, moore brings up either dashiell hammet (sp?) or some other old school detective novelist and his thoughts on shitty hollywood adaptations of his work... that hollywood did not ruin his books because, there they still are... still on the bookshelf as they've always been.
moore's tune was apparently changed after some american screenwriter accused him of stealing "the league"... this assumption based upon the movie version which moore had nothing to do w/ rather than the comic which is quite different.
i think that moore decided "fuck it... hollywood is more trouble than it's worth, particularly since i never had any particular interest in films anyway." and from there comes the "no money/ no credit" policy... which he seems to be sticking to, even though he could use the cash.
so it's post-league projects he's talking about... constantine, v, whatever version of watchmen isn't getting made now... movies based on his works which he does not own the rights to. anything he does own will now not be made into films.
it appears to me that alan moore has become the comics version of harlan ellison -- a professional crumudgen who constantly bitches about everything. thing is, though... i tend to agree w/ most of what both writers have to say, and admire them for either sticking to their guns or holding a grudge... whichever the case may be. -
Fair play to Natalie, for shaving her bonce. Alan moore is a genius we just have to wait for filmakers to catch up.
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Even down to the moustaches and eyebrows painted on. Damn, I still haven't clicked the link yet. Do you guys already know all this already?
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What a Numpty, the hateful little soul obviously has a problem with artists who maintain their integrity. Alan Moore is an inspiration to us Beer Drinking Morris Dancing Brits and if you do not like it then go and be inspired by Oprah... Sheeesh what a Numpty.
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[trailer voice] In a dystopian future where everyone is forced to dress and think alike, one man dressing up as Guy Fawkes inspires the people to...uh, all think and dress alike.
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would probably not be so standoffish about Movie adaptations of his Stories, except for the fact that the movie adaptations merely adapt his characters images into a screwed up story written by someone who usually doesn't have a clue.
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i dont know anyone who has the slightest interest in this film
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will be C for Crap!
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How do you people think the studio will market a film that easily lends itself to the accusation that it "promotes/supports terrorist activities" in today's world?
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Don Murphy should concentrate on making better movies instead of going on message boards and assigning blame for their failures to everyone else except where it belongs, i.e., his shoulders...
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i've not read the comic, and don't know the first thing about the story.... i read the script review, and the dude seemed pretty pissed off, for some seemingly good reasons, but he didn't divulge much of the meat of the story, can somebody help a brotha out?
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Jun 03, 2005 11:33:21 AM CDT
Alan Moore is way too high on the smell of his own hype these da
by jackburton
And most of his arguments usually boil down to "Because I'm Alan Moore God Damn it!". I mean he's a great comics writer, probably my all time favourite comics writer, and definitely one of the best that the medium has ever seen, but he's also a bit of an assclown, and he also very definitely doesn't know the meaning of the words 'artistic collaboration', everything always has to be his way 100% or he pitches a fit and never stops bitching about how he was artistically raped over having to slightly alter a single frame of one panel, which is now not how he envisioned it originally when plotting everything out and spoils the entire story, or whatever the fuck other wild hair is up his ass this week. Compromise and collaboration are not words that mean anything to the man, because he's Alan Moore damn it. So bow down and worship, or feel his wrath. Also Moore always talks up how he never touched a cent of the movie money, but ask Eddie (From Hell) Campbell about that sometime, because in his own words, he doesn't know what Alan Moore did with (his part) of the movie money, but he certainly never saw any of it (as in any of Moore's payday). But then again Campbell actually liked From Hell, his biggest complaint was that they didn't push it quite far enough or deep enough in some areas.
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If memory serves he blew up Big Ben early on, so it looks like he probably wont destroy anything 'Sensitive'...
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This whole crowd wearing V masks is just way too literal. Leave something for the audience. Let them make the fucking connection. Who reckons we'll have someone in the crowd going, 'Yes, now we are all V. As it should have been from the start. Hahahahahh'. Bollocks.
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"Apparently Alan Moore doesn't... which is the first time Alan's spoken out against one of the films he's responsible for's source material." Holy shit. Written English takes another kick in the gonads from Harry Knowles! Jesus Christ man, do you read this stuff over before you hit "enter"?
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At least the costume is 100% faithful to the comic. Ah, Warrior magazine, it warped my tiny mind. Continue your Murphy baiting, I want to see some aggro.
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Who give a fuck?! Its a great story, and I'm sure that the Wachowskis are more than capable of handling it. I say props to anyone (especially those noted CGI brothers) who is willing to shoot something that large scale on location and not completely digitze it. I think that all the people in the V masks is bad as shit. You guys need to chill the fuck out. give this one a chance. So what if that V speech at the beginning is lame. ITs possible that its a fluke.
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V masks = Guy Fawkes masks = V masks = Guy Fawkes masks. As an earlier poster pointed out, V accomplishes what Fawkes tried to do, and his character's costume is clearly modeled after Fawkes.
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...I, too, remember V from the Warrior magazine, although I only ever owned one issue of it and that was, like, 20 years ago... Funny how things stick with you. All I can say is, bring on Axel Pressbutton: the Movie... Pan out.
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...grey tanks, grey-and-white camouflage pattern? What are they doing with that in the middle of the city? This makes zero sense and doesn't look at all evocative or the mood of the story.
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Starring Mickey Rourke as Axel, Milla Jovavich as Mysta Mystralis and the voice of Chris Rock as Zirk. Murphy, get off that hooker and get this film made.
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keep it going!
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way to go.
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That is just fucked up. I love it.
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...and the Norse Fire soldiers are supposed to be dressed all in black, like Nazi storm troopers. Boy, this is starting to go real wrong real fast.
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It would be great, even if he just had a cameo. He's too old to replay his old part convincingly.
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One thing about Alan Moore, he is consistent with his principles and has always stood by them, even to his detriment. He left DC when he could have made a mint on making a watchmen sequel. (A DC executive threatened to take it away from him and gibbons. No one for being bullied, Alan said fuck you and left. Alan never had a problem with DC editorial except for one issue....and that was adding a mature readers lable) Almost all the money that he has "made" off of "his" movies have been given to his collaborators. It wasn't until the Lawsuit with LXG, that he didn't want any creators credit. (He was named in the law-suit because the MOVIE was too close to another movie project. The irony here is that LXG movie had NOTHING to do with Alan Moores' TLOEG plot or delightfully decadent atmosphere.) Alan never commented on ANY of the project except the book was the book and the movie was the movie. Not until Joel "I'll shoot off my foot" Silvers IMPLIED that Alan read the script and was excited about it, that Alan Moore gave the corporation an ultimatum " Equal apology, with equal amount of press or I just fill out my contract with you and take my genius elsewhere." If he has begun to speak out against the script, it will be the true deathknell for this movie.
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Oooo a bunch of tanks. WTF...come at me with some pics of sweet Naltalie and I'll take an interest.
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And I'm pretty sure the guy who sent in the post knew what year Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament. Just because he said "couple hundred" even though that's technically incorrect doesn't mean you HAVE to play grammar police.
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Eddie Campbell still got his half of the money, because he was a joint partner in the From Hell rights, he just never got Alan Moore's part of the money is what I was trying to get at. Or at least he hadn't a couple years back anyhow, because he made a joke about it and said as much when I met him and asked him about it. Things may have changed since though I guess, but if they have I haven't personally heard about it. Then again I also admit I haven't read the book in question either, or else maybe he was just playing nice in the book, wouldn't be the first time someone did that in an autobiography so as not to piss off their friends...
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