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Does that matter, though? We can have the illusion shattered for us, providing that we can still accept that the crowd in that scene believe it.
...yes, it does matter. What the fuck are you on? We're talking about a cinematic experience here. These aren't real people, and it's not actually happening. Our whole concept of "who" and what" in cinema is predicated on our relationship with the text. There are no characters, no narrative, no crowd in that scene, without a successfully negotiated contract between audience and filmmakers. This is basic film theory.
The entire fucking point of V is that he was not a man, but an idea. It doesn't matter who is wearing the mask, it could be anyone playing Evey and the transformation would still be gripping and believeable (if done well, mind.)
Yes, that's the entire point of V as a character, just as it's the entire point of Evey as a character that she becomes V. However, V himself is not an idea. He's described in various places within the comic as being an incredibly fast and incredibly strong man. These things are essential to a lot of the things he's able to do within his acts of terrorism - he may be a great character, but he's also an action hero like most comics characters (and V ticks a lot of the boxes needed to qualify as a basic superhero type). And Spats is right, Evey doesn't just impersonate him for that one scene, she becomes him. Even if they leave out that scene with whats-his-face at the end, where she effectively recruits her own replacement, we're supposed to believe that Evey carries on being V. Trouble is, she has no credibility as V because she's VERY VERY SMALL. In the comic V only pulls off magnificent charisma dressed the way he does because he's got the physical presence and scariness to carry off what is basically a very silly costume - and, I guess, because comics readers have a history of accepting characters in ridiculous costumes without complaint. In a movie? Different kettle of fish entirely. Even if it's shot with the same artful use of tone and shadow that Lloyd used, V still needs someone physically imposing under that Halloween costume for it to work.
Did you have the same problem with the comic? Because V is noticeably taller than Evey at many points in the artwork. Did that ruin your suspension of disbelief? And, yes, after the torture Evey does look like a holocaust survivor. But before that she's a simple, ditzy, pubescent girl. She even looks ever so slightly chubby.
And after the training, she's all hard angles, muscles and thousand-yard stare. And Evey, in the comics, isn't a world of difference away from V in height. Natalie Portman is. A. Little. Bird. She will look like a little girl dressed up like a witch.
Yes, nit-picking about the height of the anthropomorphic personification (hahahaha) of Anarchy is silly. V's a billion feet tall, reguardless of who is really behind the mask.
Romantic bullshit. Tell you what, try telling a casting director you're trying to cast the anthropomorphic personification of Anarchy, see how far you get before being laughed out of the building. |
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