Will audiences follow [V], cheering the implicit detonation of America's institutions? Or will they find it all a bit... jejune? Coming out of V for Vendetta, a friend of mine called it "radical" and "subversive." He was awestruck with disbelief that a film with a harlequin terrorist as its hero could actually be released by a major American studio. I was awestruck at his naïveté in a world where fight-the-power anarchy is now marketed as a fashionable identity statement -- by the corporations that helped raise a generation on bands like Rage Against the Machine, by the armchair-leftist bloggers who flog the same righteousness day after day. V for Vendetta has a playful-demon vitality, but it's designed to let political adolescents of every age congratulate themselves. It's rage against the machine by the machine.
starvingeyes wrote:we're going to write a script, if just for fun.
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