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But will V now constantly call Evey 'Miss Hammond', in a slightly contemptuous way?
I dunno about Weaving as V - his voice is too distinctive. I think the guy who wanted V with an anonymous, possibly computer-generated voice, was on the money.
Back to topic, and what I actually meant to say, what is this about a new character? 'Gordon Dietrich, a talk show host who questions the system' according to that movie site. Why? Why put a new character in? Yes, played by Stephen Fry, very good, but the only character Fry should play in it is Lewis fuckin' Prothero! Not some made-up new character. Why the obsession with doing this in Hollywood films, with sci-fi/comics/geek properties at least? Not changing original characters a bit, that's okay, but totally new characters? 'Hey, let's do a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie, but let's have, like Tom Sawyer (or whoever) in it as well as the ones from the book.' 'Hey, let's do V for Vendetta but insert some random chat show host.' Why? And why are both my examples Moore movies? Hmmm.
It's looking more and more like Baz Lurmann missed a trick by not putting a new character into Romeo and Juliet. They could have called him, oh, I dunno, Lutherius or something, and he could have been, er, Romeo's bodyguard, yeah, and he could have killed Tybalt instead of Romeo and then Romeo would have had to kill him because Tybalt was Romeo's cousin, you see? Yeah, that would improve the story! A totally extraneous new character, rather than one from the source material! FUCK YEAH!
Also, look what they did with the name. The baddies are a bit like Nazis, you see, so let's have this guy who questions them, and who's a bit showbiz, be called Dietrich, because, you see, it's like a reference to all this....Shut up! That's not clever, it's stupid! Not least because part of the point of the book is that the characters all have quite dull, English-sounding surnames, with the possible exception of Prothero. The all-powerful leader is called Adam Susan, for god's sake, a total non-entity of a name. Start putting people with referential surnames in and it kind of destroys that dull prolevibe thing going on with the surnames. I mean, come on - Dascombe, Almond, Finch, Etheridge, Susan, Hammond - the list of names in V for Vendetta reads like the staff list for a provincial call centre, which adds to that dull, wet afternoon in the 80s feel someone else already mentioned.
This chat-show host thing, again, makes me think they're trying to make the story seem more 'contemporary'. But the point is it doesn't need to be. The whole point of the story is that Britain has regressed, culturally, to a kind of late fifties, early sixties level. It doesn't need to be made relevant. |
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