V for Vendetta

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

I don't have V4V handy, and it's been ages since I read
it, but I do remember the V of V4V contemplating on the
famous lines: "There is more behind and inside V. than
any of us had suspected. Not who, but what: what is she."
Fits quite well with this other V character too.

Heikki

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Dave Monroe wrote:

> I finally got 'round to it yesterday.  A very
> Pynchonian lineup, in fact: Tristram Shandy, Why We
> Fight, V for Vendetta and Dead Man (which I haven't
> seen on the big screen since it was first shown here).
>  Had I not already seen Cache (q.v.), I could've gone
> five for five, but ...
>
> Well, V4V was the weakest of the lot, and I still
> liked it okay, so ... I haven't read the damn thing in
> a while, though a class at the nearby university is
> using it this semester,so maybe I can score a used
> copy ... note John Hurt, having played Winston Smith
> in 1984, as the Big Brother figure ... in fact, saw
> both John Hurt AND Stephen Fry twice yesterday (much
> enjoyed Benny Hill spoof in V4V, esp. gorilla [=
> guerrilla?] suit) ... not movie about terrorism in a
> fascist Britain opening on St. Patrick's Day ...
>
> I haven't heard much fanboy bickering yet, certainly
> not on the (udnerstandable, justified) scale of From
> Hell or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, so ...
>
> But do y'all see both Tristram Shandy (postmodern
> premodernist postmodernism) and Why We Fight (war as
> business by other means, not to mention by business),
> not to mention Dead Man, if you haven't already ...
>
> Rosenbaum, Jonathan.  Dead Man.
>    London: British Film Institute, 2000.
>
> http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/books/catalogue/details.php?bookid=230
>
> Conveniently excerpted @ ...
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0107&msg=57435
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0107&msg=57435
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0107&msg=57488
>
> By the way, last i'd heard, my rommate'd goten through
> the first two stories of yr Steampunk Trilogy,
> decalred them "brilliant" or somesuch.  Meanwhile, I
> haven't had time + money to get down to the comic book
> shop to pick up my pile in a while, so I'm backlogged
> on Top 10 ...
>
> --- Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't believe I've seen anyone on the list mention
> > that Pynchon was an influence on Alan Moore and his
> > V FOR VENDETTA.  Specifically, of course, for all
> > the letter V riffs in the comic.  As I recall,
> > there's a panel in the original graphic novel that
> > shows a character actually reading V.  Alas, that
> > image has not made it to the film--at least as
> > far as I could see.
>
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