V for Vendetta, a film based on a 1980s graphic novel, was released to theaters late last week and with it (for me at least) came confusion and frustration. What could have been a great film about the tenacity of free will and the unwavering human desire for liberty was twisted and mangled into an anti-Bush, Mulslim-loving fright fest. Even the author of the graphic novel wanted nothing to do with the film.<\/p>\n
“He told MTV, ‘[My comic] has been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [The film] is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neo-conservatives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is not what “V for Vendetta” [the comic] was about.'” (from the townhall.com<\/a> movie review)<\/p>\n Sounds like someone screwed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" V for Vendetta, a film based on a 1980s graphic novel, was released to theaters late last week and with it (for me at least) came confusion and frustration. What could have been a great film about the tenacity of free will and the unwavering human desire for liberty was twisted and mangled into an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}