V for Vendetta

[Sean Mannion]

despite all the riffing, don't think anyone actually reads from it (bar the 
intertextual bit mentioned before) -- but the novel is drawn into the 
collection of stuff on V's bookcase.

The film looks absolutely appalling, quite frankly. Despite not being one to 
judge before something hits the screens and I see it firsthand, I have heard 
of a major revision to the close of the narrative that involves something 
that only the writers of the Matrix could think was appropriate; I almost 
shrieked in horror. Not because I'm any kind of Moore-purist, but simply 
because it sounds disgustingly cheesy. Almost like an admission that they 
think a cinema audience doesn't do 'complexity' and will refuse to 'get' a 
symbol or theme unless it's glaringly obvious, or drawn in crayola crayons.

still, I suppose we should be thankful that no one's saw fit to humiliate 
themselves or their studios enough to the point of bringing out 'Watchmen: 
The Movie'.


>From: Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at earthlink.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: V for Vendetta
>Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:43:13 -0500
>
>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.
>