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Barbelith Book Club: V For Vendetta

 
  

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MintyFresh
14:20 / 30.06.06
I saw a trailer for the movie and thought that it was going to be the coolest movie ever made. I saw the book in a comic store a few days later and picked it up. I was absolutely amazed. I had read Alan Moore before, but this was something completely different. I was so sick of superheroes in red and blue tights that it was a huge thrill to see V as a dark, swashbuckling, anti-hero. I spent half the book giggling with girlish delight at V's speeches, the next third of it nursing a secret crush on him, and the last bit completely awestruck at the sheer brilliance of it. I saw the movie a week later and went through the same emotions all over again.
 
 
Jackie Susann
15:18 / 30.06.06
I read it a couple of months ago, and was enjoying it up until the prison sequence. 1 - Anybody who isn't either 12 or braindead can pick that V is running the whole thing a mile off. 2 - If some fuck convinces me I'm being tortured by fascists, but really he's doing it for my own good, I will hate him forever. And I can't see how anyone could feel any different. Maybe that's a failure of empathy on my part, but I'm pretty sure it's a failure of characterisation on Moore's.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
13:34 / 17.09.08
David Lloyd seminar
29th September - 18:30 , Georgian Restaurant stage, fourth floor

V for Vendetta illustrator David Lloyd discusses the development of V from the 1980s to the 21st century Hollywood blockbuster, along with his most recent work 'Kickback'. To reserve a place call 020 7173 6473.
 
  

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