“I suspect that in the comic V speaks predominantly in iambic meter, but I've lent my copy and can't readily check it”
He'll rue his promiscuity, The rogue who stole /my/ only love When he's informed how many years it's been Since first I bedded /his/.
They shouldn't have cast Natalie Portman. I like her a lot, but they needed a teenager, someone who could reasonably pass for 15 in dim light and could starve herself down to look like a orphan living in poverty. I didn't notice the accent but lots of people did. I'll give them credit for retaining Evey's torture, although a lot of the rest of her development is missing. There's no time (or rights clearance) for Enid Blyton, but we could have the scene throwing out childish things, and an Evey with hair growing back, the Evey who can accept what V is and understand his methods, but choose a different path for herself.
Removing "Fate" in favour of a ridiculous intarweb or whatever they called it, was a mistake. Fate doesn't have to be a green screen interface but there must be the sense of centralised planning, that punching new holes in the paper tape changes the world...
We lose a lot of places where V knocks over dominos in a metaphorical sense. He creates the split within the party that leads to a power vacuum after Susan's death. He disables the party's means of surveillance and with it their control over the populace. He drives Susan himself to dispair and makes him leave the safety of his bunker. He creates a perfect assassin to kill Susan, in public with lots of high profile witnesses. He does all this _on purpose_ as part of a larger plan and by having control over Fate. All gone, but instead we get an extended scene where he knocks down a /huge/ array of real dominos (the comic shows just a few dozen set up to amuse Evey, like the magic show and the dancing) for no good reason.
One tiny thing that no-one else seems to have mentioned - is a gilded underground train really too expensive for a Hollywood movie?
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Date: 2006-04-03 04:06 pm (UTC)He'll rue his promiscuity,
The rogue who stole /my/ only love
When he's informed how many years it's been
Since first I bedded /his/.
They shouldn't have cast Natalie Portman. I like her a lot, but they needed a teenager, someone who could reasonably pass for 15 in dim light and could starve herself down to look like a orphan living in poverty. I didn't notice the accent but lots of people did. I'll give them credit for retaining Evey's torture, although a lot of the rest of her development is missing. There's no time (or rights clearance) for Enid Blyton, but we could have the scene throwing out childish things, and an Evey with hair growing back, the Evey who can accept what V is and understand his methods, but choose a different path for herself.
Removing "Fate" in favour of a ridiculous intarweb or whatever they called it, was a mistake. Fate doesn't have to be a green screen interface but there must be the sense of centralised planning, that punching new holes in the paper tape changes the world...
We lose a lot of places where V knocks over dominos in a metaphorical sense. He creates the split within the party that leads to a power vacuum after Susan's death. He disables the party's means of surveillance and with it their control over the populace. He drives Susan himself to dispair and makes him leave the safety of his bunker. He creates a perfect assassin to kill Susan, in public with lots of high profile witnesses. He does all this _on purpose_ as part of a larger plan and by having control over Fate. All gone, but instead we get an extended scene where he knocks down a /huge/ array of real dominos (the comic shows just a few dozen set up to amuse Evey, like the magic show and the dancing) for no good reason.
One tiny thing that no-one else seems to have mentioned - is a gilded underground train really too expensive for a Hollywood movie?