According to this report on IMDB producers of the new V for Vendetta film are refusing to edit out scenes of terrorist attacks on the London underground, despite the real thing only having just happened.
Executive producer Joel Silver says, "It's a great time for this movie. It's a controversial film and it's a controversial time. It's going to make people think." Fellow producer David Lloyd adds, "In terms of what happened in London it's important to try and understand what leads people to terrorism. There should be lots of movies made about terrorists." Director James McTiegue explains, "Terrorism is one of those themes that never really goes away."
Personally I don't believe the scenes are in need of being censored. However, I do question the intelligence of the movie makers- it's a "great time for the movie"? Isn't that more than a tad tasteless? As for David Lloyd's comment on the importance to "try and understand what leads people to terrorism"- I think there's a massive gulf between Islamic terrorism and V for Vendetta's lead character, a man twisted by his experiences in a concentration camp (if memory serves me he's also subjected to medical experimentation). Not that there's any excuse to engage in terrorist acts like he does in the story. Also, "there should be lots of movies made about terrorists"? WTF? So we can "understand" them? Sympathise with them too maybe?
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Jay, this getting real odd, your choice of posts is... wigging me out; i seem to have an connection with most everything you've written over the past month.
When Dave was drawing V for V for Warrior, I was actually working at Marvel Uk in kentish town in n.london in the first half of the 80s so i knew both him and Alan as they used to come in with their stuff for Marvel at the time. Even back then IIRC the ppl i was working with always considered VfV as one of the more serious and difficult stories being produced for comics in the eighties - the only comparable thing in a 'political' sphere may have been Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', but that came out some 3-4 years later.
To edit out what may be a contributing factor to the dark tones that made this one of the seminal comics of the 80s and given that the first Sam Raimi Spiderman film was severly hamstrung by having its final scenes on top of the WTC dumped so not to offend ppl after 9/11, i too would rather not have this film censored. How simple can it be; If people are offended by the content of a work of fiction they only need look away.
Mind you, having said that...
Alan also read a preview of the film script and said:
It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer and Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed."
Damn!
I've got to say that I have serious misgivings about this movie too- I think it was Ain't It Cool I first heard the bad script reviews coming in. Alan Moore's distancing of himself from the project speaks volumes- and after what they did to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...well, it doesn't look good at all. Also the Wachowski brothers involvment is suspect. The Matrix was a great film but parts 2 & 3 of the trilogy were a massive let down. I've seen more inspired scenes in Kung Fu Hustle.
Personally I'd rather see a Watchman movie- it's always been one of my favurite Moore books.
BTW, glad you're liking the posts. Hope to have some more book/movie reviews coming soon. Lighten the tone a little.
just found a good place to plonk you down on...
http://doublearticulation.blogspot.com/2005/06/my-golden-age.html
have a gd w/e.
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