V for Video

[eumelia]

"V For Vendetta" has for a while now been my fave movie and (graphic)novel.

One of the things that made V so pleasurable to watch, was the fact that he had been played by the wonderful Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith? Mitzi?) and the Speech where he introduces himself to Evey (Natalie Portman), which doesn't appear in the Novel (then again, the beautiful scene where V calls Justice a whore isn't in the movie, so *shrug*).

Embedded is the Speech, which is very difficult to understand (and learn) so someone carefully subtitled V so that we can understand him better.

Thanks to mistressindi for linking this.

Comments

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

I think that the problem with this scene- and with the whole movie, is that what the novel builds to slowly("V is an idea, not a specific person") is revealed and spoken out loud too early.So what's left is too portray V as an action hero.Which he's not.

Not to say he can't act quickly and decisively, or that he's a stranger to fighting, but for me that isn't his essence- the essence of V is uniqueness, personal freedom, and the rejection of all outside authority figures."Law, not leader".Most of all, V, as portrayed in the comics is someone who manipulates everything from behind the scenes, using misdirection whenever he can and acting directly only when he knows the result- the dominoes in the end show his nature best: he performs that one act, in the right place and right time, to destroy what he considers evil.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Quality wise, the novel is by far superior and I consider the movie to be just a "based on" and I don't expect the same kind of depth in that that I do and would in the novel.

Movie!V and Novel!V aren't the same character, but then neither is Evey or Finch, they were changed to fit the screen and I think the adaptation was very good.
Also the message and actions in each medium are different, even though the story is (almost) the same.

In the novel, the idea of Anarchy as Freedom is very much the basic narrative unlike the movie where the a-morphic idea of Freedom is the narrative. In the novel there is Anarchy opposing Dictatorship, in the movie it's just Dictatorship Bad! Let's blow shit up!

I can only think of one movie where the adaptation gave me the same kind of "oomph" as the book and that's "the Hours". Both book and movie are beautiful and poignant.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

And I just thought the subtitles were funny.
LOL.