V for Vendetta

[kelber at mindspring.com]

By the way, for anyone in NYC --  2001: A Space Odyssey, is playing for a limited engagement at the Ziegfeld.  There are only 2 more showings:  Wed. at 4:30 and 8:15.  I saw it on Friday night and Saturday night.  Is it Pynchonian?  Only in the sense that it's a work of genius (or, in this case, two geniuses: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke).

Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Mar 20, 2006 10:06 AM
>To: Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at earthlink.net>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: V for Vendetta
>
>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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