Monday, November 12, 2007

V FOR VENDETTA


i have been trying to find a movie i think is worth talking about...and i finally came with a movie called V for Vendetta. a movie about terrorism, love, and special effects.

the credits are the following:

Credits: Director: James McTeigue Screenwriters: Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski Based on the graphic novel by: Alan Moore and David Lloyd producers: Grant Hill, Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Executive producer: Benjamin Waisbren Director of photography: Adrian Biddle Production designer: Owen Paterson Music: Dario Marianelli Co-producers: Roberto Malerba, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken Costume designer: Sammy Sheldon Editor: Martin Walsh Cast: Evey Hammond: Natalie Portman V: Hugo Weaving Finch: Stephen Rea Sutler: John Hurt Prothero: Roger Allam Gordon Deitrich: Stephen Fry Creedy: Tim Pigott-Smith MPAA rating R Running time -- 131 minutes

the story by http://www.cornponeflicks.org/V.html

The central focus of V for Vendetta is the issue of terrorism, and quite specifically, whether or not terroristic methods are ever a justified means to effect change. While they did not write the story or characters, merely having adapted them, one must at least admire the Wachowskis for having the considerable spine to address this subject at all in our modern political climate. Many people are not going to embrace the story of our protagonist's battle against a repressive government with especially wide-open arms. The titular character, known only as "V," is a masked avenger of sorts, wearing an all-obscuring mask of a smiling Guy Fawkes, the would-be seventeenth-century revolutionary who attempted to blown up the houses of the British Parliament with gunpowder. In the first few minutes, we see V fight off and kill a group of government thugs who are attempting to have their way with a wayward young girl named Evey, which is good, and then to blow up the statue of Madam Justice amidst many skyrockets, the goodness of which is somewhat more debatable. As the story unfolds, V will employ many audacious methods for attempting to subvert government power and incite the will of the people to rebel, while gradually killing off a succession of individuals against whom he holds an old grudge. Evey Hammond, having been saved by V early on, is torn between her nonviolent tendencies and the reality of the world she lives in, and wrestles with the matter of whether or not V's objectives and methods are necessary or evil.

THIS MOVIE USES A WIDE VARIETY OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC ONES, LIKE HOW THE PLACES LOOK DARK AND CHAOTIC, TO 3D EFFECTS LIKE SHOWN IN THE EXPLOSIONS AND FIGHTING SCENES.



I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THIS MOVIE...I THOUGH IT WAS GONNA BE MORE LIKE AND ACTION MOVIE WITH A LOT OF FIGHTING AND EXPLOSION, BUT IT ENDED UP BEING MORE THE SUSPENSE TYPE OF MOVIE WITH FEW ACTION. DESPITE OF THIS, I ENDED UP ENJOYING V FOR VENDETTA EVEN MORE.

SOMETHING THAT I REALLY FELT ATTRACTED TO WERE THE DESIGN ELEMENTS...FORM THE CHARACTER DESIGN LIKE THE SOLDIERS, AND OF COURSE V, TO THE WAY BUILDINGS AND LANDSCAPES WERE CREATED.

TO CONCLUDE. V FOR VENDETTA IS AN INTERESTING MOVIE THAT IS WORTH WATCHING

2 Comments:

At November 13, 2007 at 1:47 PM , Blogger Nimbian said...

Never actually saw this movie even though i greatly wanted to

 
At November 13, 2007 at 3:06 PM , Blogger jmeagher said...

this movie was great. it had me infatuated, very intelligent movie

 

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