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slowmutant
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 Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject: V for Vendetta alternate ending |
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I have alternate ending for the movie that would fit nicely with the symbolism.
Instead of being shot to death and then loaded onto the subway train, wouldn't it have been cool if V turned out to be nothing but a costume & mask? I mean, V wasn't really a man at all, or so we're lead to believe.
An alternative death-scene for V:
He is shot many times over, but we see no blood. As he falls, the audience is shown a dramatic shot of the empty costume, gloves, mask, and hat. Like Obi Wan Kenobi's death scene in the orignal Star Wars. Turns out, there never was anyone behind that Fawkesian mask. Except an idea, unkillable, unstoppable.
And perhaps the subway train just blows up British Parliament with no one in it.
Of course, the scene in which V is cooking breakfast for Natalie Portman would have to be edited, because we see his hands and thus a confirmation of his flesh & bone corporeality. |
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pakled
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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then he would become more powerful than we could possibly imagine...
it might be interesting. |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Is V supposed to have super-powers in the comic? Didn't read the comic.
The ending was good, IMO. But I was hoping to see V unmasked.  |
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Veresae
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The comic was pretty different. Though he did end up going off in the train, Evey became the new V. It wasn't that everyone put on a V mask like in the film.
I actually prefer the comic to the film immensely, because the comic has scenes that are just so...gut-wrenchingly bleak that it brought me to tears. I loved the film until I read the comic, and now the film just doesn't work as well on me anymore. |
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| Hollywood loves to ruin Alan Moore's work, I don't think we need to make it even worse. |
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JohnHopkins
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Let's face it, if somebody made a film exactly as Alan Moore wanted it, he'd still be pissed off. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| JohnHopkins wrote: | | Let's face it, if somebody made a film exactly as Alan Moore wanted it, he'd still be pissed off. |
QFT. Look at Watchmen. I'd say that will be as close as anyone can get to adapting his work perfectly, and he still intends to sulk like....well, a child aspie when their obsession is taken away from them.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps Alan Moore privately considers his work to be aesthetically unfilmable.
Is V supposed to be like Darkman, a burned man with no face to call his own? |
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| slowmutant wrote: | Perhaps Alan Moore privately considers his work to be aesthetically unfilmable.
Is V supposed to be like Darkman, a burned man with no face to call his own? |
No. Darkman was Sam Raimi's attempt, I think, to film The Question, which he couldn't get the rights to. Although Alan Moore didn't create the Question, he derived Watchmen's Rorschach from him.
I think the only concession to Alan Moore's quite frankly stupid behaviour was that he was willing to poke fun at himself in a Simpsons episode.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: Or |
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Or the inspector isn't so cooperative and in order to move the train, Evie gets on, shuts the door, and the train heads off into the tunnel. Then Parlement blows up. Notice I did not say we see Evie blown up.
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| Why didn't we see V unmasked? |
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| slowmutant wrote: | | Why didn't we see V unmasked? |
You never do, in the graphic novel, and I'd say that the Wachowskis, as much as they changed the film from the original graphic novel, didn't want to ruin that part. The only person who actually sees his face in that whole graphic novel is the female doctor, Delia Surridge, I think. Evey is tempted to take the mask off after V dies, but decides not to, though she hallucinates seeing, among other things, her father (V earlier on told her that he wasn't her father), and herself under the mask.
For more info on the plot of the graphic novel, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta#Plot
I've read the graphic novel already, BTW...
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| Within the fictional universe of V for Vendetta, is there any proof that V is a man and not some kind of ghost or monster? The character of V remains totally anonymous and this really bugs me. So I guess the theatrical persona of V supersedes whoever might be behind the Guy Fawkes mask. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Hugo Weaving did an amazing job as V.
He replaced James Purefoy,
the man who was supposed to be V in the first place.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| I heard Hugo just did the voice, actually. But yeah, either way he's amazing. One of my favorite actors. XD |
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