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Wachowskis aim to provoke with "Vendetta" film
Reuters ^
| Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:21 AM ET
| Mike Collett-White
Posted on 02/13/2006 7:39:30 AM PST by bush2006cheney
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From the geniuses who cast
Cornel West as a savior of humanity.
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To: bush2006cheney
Comic book was quite good...if I remember it.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:42:02 AM PST
by
Borges
To: bush2006cheney
And for those who will defend this on the strength of Alan Moore's writing. He took his name off of this film, so take that as you will.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:42:21 AM PST
by
weegee
(We are all Danes now.)
To: Borges
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
There is a certain amount of truth in this statement.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:42:57 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
To: bush2006cheney
I've been looking forward to this one, it's a great book, was sad they didn't release it on Guy Fawkes day. Out in fandom you can always spot the Alan Moore fans because we all know when Guy Fawkes Day is, he's kind of obsessed with it.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:43:43 AM PST
by
discostu
(a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
To: weegee
I always confuse Moore with Frank Miller. Moore is much better. Watchmen is a classic.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:44:11 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
Maybe Cypher had a point.
People will remember Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in the Wachowski's Matrix series.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:44:18 AM PST
by
Sam the Sham
(A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
To: bush2006cheney
The first Matrix was mindblowing. The last two were idiotic. Unfortunately, I don't have hopes of this flick avoiding taking a political side. Both the extreme right and left are enough to give me worry and the film could do a great job of making a point while keeping the politics unidentifiable. But that would require thought and originality...
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:44:35 AM PST
by
CanisRex
(Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. --Lazarus Long)
To: bush2006cheney
The anti-hero, played by Hugo Weaving, Agent Smith!
Misster Annderson....
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:45:29 AM PST
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: bush2006cheney
Apocalypse is, too, less than coincidentally, the fortifying principle of the Bush administration".
*buzzer sounds*
WRONG, It's what they (our current administration) are working to prevent....
...and what the Muslim leader all ove the earth are working to commence.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:45:51 AM PST
by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: Sam the Sham
People will remember Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in the Wachowski's Matrix series. He's an excellent actor IMO. I might have to go see this one even if it has some political slant to it.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:49:00 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If the USA was the Roman Empire, Islam would have ceased to be a problem on 9/12/2001)
To: Sam the Sham
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:49:13 AM PST
by
fishtank
To: bush2006cheney
The anti-hero, played by Hugo Weaving, seeks to emulate the 17th Century Catholic rebel Guy Fawkes, who narrowly failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London on November 5, 1605, and was hanged for his troubles.They did much more to old Guido than that:
Until 1870, the full punishment for the crime was to be "hanged, drawn, and quartered" in that the convict would be: Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution.
Hanged[1] by the neck, but removed before death.
Disembowelled, and the genitalia and entrails burned before the victim's eyes; the heart was the last to be removed and was then shown to the victim before the entrails were burned.[2]
Beheaded and the body divided into four parts (quartered).
Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e., the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city or town to deter would-be traitors.
Source
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:49:25 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: bush2006cheney
Starring a shaven-headed Natalie Portman as the foil to the mystery man known only as V, the film is based on a 1980s graphic novel warning readers about the danger of lurching to the political right under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Complete garbage.
To: bush2006cheney
The Orwellian authorities rule chiefly by fear. I suspect that some of those who refer to bad guys as "Orwellian authorities" do so, not out of reverence for Orwell, but rather out of contempt. George Orwell was against Communism.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:50:14 AM PST
by
weegee
(We are all Danes now.)
To: bush2006cheney
It's not the Wachowski brothers anymore, is it? Didn't one of them have a sex change?
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:50:49 AM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: bush2006cheney
John Hurt, who plays the evil leader Sutler, is made to look and sound like Adolf Hitler ...which I guess means he'll have a Texan drawl and mangle his syllables.
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:51:00 AM PST
by
Bommer
(Ted Kennedy - Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life!)
To: domenad
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:53:06 AM PST
by
Borges
To: bush2006cheney
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posted on
02/13/2006 7:54:00 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
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