George Lucas Sucks

This was the thought going through my head when I watched V For Vendetta.

Because in this movie, it is so immediately apparent that Natalie Portman is an amazing actress. Yet as Queen Amidala, this fact is expertly disguised under Lucas' direction.

But then again, maybe Lucas wanted to recapture the same magic as in The New Hope: amateurish acting & directing. Or he's completely clueless about how to work with talent. Of every Harrison Ford movie I've watched, his acting was roughest in Star Wars. Anyway, I blame Lucas for failing to make me see Natalie Portman in the same light as V did.

Enough digressing.

V For Vendetta is an old Alan Moore masterpiece. It is a complicated and thoughtful tale of an anarchist's fight against an evil government. Or some might say, a mad-man's terror against a stable albeit totalitarian government.

Natalie Portman is Evey, the Victim.

Hugo Weaving is V, the Vigilante.

John Hurt is Adam Sutler, the Villian.

? Who ?

John Hurt, the first chest-burster incubator...

...No... Who's Adam Sutler?

I dunno. Maybe the script writer has a problem with Adam James Susan, and
changed it to Sutler so that the audience won't get confused by a man named Mr. Susan.

...But why?

Well, audience are stupid people and get confused fairly easily, so Hollywood considerately dumbs down everything so that the befuddled masses don't stub their mental toes trying to think their way out of the theatre.


This isn't the only thing that was dumbed down. The sexual devience of each and every corrupt party member was taken out, (fetishism, pedophilia, a disturbing emotional lust for a supercomputer named Fate).

Some story arcs also had to be taken out, cos a 10 issue comic just won't fit in a 2hr movie. Certain characters had to be simplified, left undeveloped, or left out altogether. The widow of a fallen Finger-man, whose own fall from grace led her to assassinate Leader. A very long winded and not altogether that interesting arc. But taking her out, means that Leader had to be killed by some other means, and thus a complete re-write of the ending.

The ending is also air-brushed.

The comic book ended with a country in anarchy and chaos, as general disorder overwhelmed the government's forces. In the movie, there's a near bloodless revolution where an army of people marched into the streets that brings to mind the opening of Kung Fu Hustle with the gangsters in tux and top-hats.


Not to say that the movie wasn't good. It was most enjoyable. Although the message was diluted, but it's still more flavourful than the half-baked saw-dust that Hollywood usually feeds the mindless masses. And it's almost sad to say, that this is the best Alan Moore adaptation so far. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was so crap, and From Hell was only good for Johnny Depp.