V for Vendetta. No spoilers.
Mar. 20th, 2006 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7DeathBoy - [disenchantment]--- I am an Alan Moore junkie. I adore the way he puts words together, and what that does to the inside of my head. I love the ideas he captures, and the way he has of expressing them.
I hate the Wachowski Siblings, for a lot of different reasons. They reuse a lot of the same shit, over and over, but don't take it to new levels. The don't tend to evolve.
I think that art is about communication. I believe that the purpose of any writer/musician/painter/artist's work is to get a message out into the world, in a certain way, with a certain context.
DeathBoy - [AntiMatter]--- That means that the transmission is one thing, and the reception is quite another. Signal to Noise ratio. How the audience interprets, analyses, de/reconstructs the datastory provided by the artist is an essential part of the experience: The Audience's part.
I loved the film adaptation of V for Vendetta. There were parts i wanted to be more fleshed out, parts i would have rather not had in, and things that were changed, in both temporal and physical measure. (Peter Gabriel - [Signal To Noise]). I think that, overall, it portrayed the same message as the original (Fear, Fascism, Change, Becoming that Change), but did it in a way that was appropriate to the climate of today.
Alan Moore thinks that it was a lack of courage on the part of the adapters, to not simply write something new. Well I ask you all, can one not want to see a work reach a larger audience, message and all? Can one not want the intent and the meaning of a piece (something deeper than set pieces and speeches, but integral to them both) to survive, and flourish; thrive? That's what this story is about: Ideas and their ability to change. To incite and to drive. I think that remains well intact.
If you think they murdered the original work, I guess you're entitled to your opinion. But you're wrong. The book is right the hell there, and it always will be. If you really thought the movie was that bad, go re-read it, and get others to, as well.
Hell, if you thought it was that Good, go do the same. I know I will be, this week.
It's the idea that matters.
I hate the Wachowski Siblings, for a lot of different reasons. They reuse a lot of the same shit, over and over, but don't take it to new levels. The don't tend to evolve.
I think that art is about communication. I believe that the purpose of any writer/musician/painter/artist's work is to get a message out into the world, in a certain way, with a certain context.
DeathBoy - [AntiMatter]--- That means that the transmission is one thing, and the reception is quite another. Signal to Noise ratio. How the audience interprets, analyses, de/reconstructs the datastory provided by the artist is an essential part of the experience: The Audience's part.
I loved the film adaptation of V for Vendetta. There were parts i wanted to be more fleshed out, parts i would have rather not had in, and things that were changed, in both temporal and physical measure. (Peter Gabriel - [Signal To Noise]). I think that, overall, it portrayed the same message as the original (Fear, Fascism, Change, Becoming that Change), but did it in a way that was appropriate to the climate of today.
Alan Moore thinks that it was a lack of courage on the part of the adapters, to not simply write something new. Well I ask you all, can one not want to see a work reach a larger audience, message and all? Can one not want the intent and the meaning of a piece (something deeper than set pieces and speeches, but integral to them both) to survive, and flourish; thrive? That's what this story is about: Ideas and their ability to change. To incite and to drive. I think that remains well intact.
If you think they murdered the original work, I guess you're entitled to your opinion. But you're wrong. The book is right the hell there, and it always will be. If you really thought the movie was that bad, go re-read it, and get others to, as well.
Hell, if you thought it was that Good, go do the same. I know I will be, this week.
It's the idea that matters.
