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"V" Is For Propaganda (NOT The 80s Classic Sci Fi Allegory) Alert
Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 03/07/06 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 03/07/2006 7:21:33 PM PST by goldstategop

If you liked the politics of last weekend's Oscar nominees, you'll love "V for Vendetta."

But if you're like the rest of America--you support our troops and believe in firmly responding to terrorists on our own shores--then, don't waste your time at this piece of garbage masquerading as a superhero movie. It is anything but.

If the other political films subtly whisper of an agenda, "V" clocks you over the head with it with a still sizzling, iron frying pan.

Based on the graphic novel series of the same name, "V" comes complete with all the bogeymen the far left loves to hate: NSA spying and wiretaps; government torture complete with Abu Ghraib hood fashions; lecherous, elderly Christian clerics in collars raping young girls; Islam, gay rights, and free speech under attack; and even a Bill O'Reilly-esque evil cable talk show host/wicked pharmaceutical billionaire/heinous military officer combo rolled into one character.

Oh, and by the way, the hero of the movie: He's a terrorist in a Guy Fawkes mask, who blows up important government buildings. Sound familiar? His mask might as well be a kefiyeh wrapped around his head in a Nick Berg video.

The movie takes place in futuristic England, and there is only one American star (Natalie Portman). But it's quite clear to whom the "commentary" is directed: Joe and Jane American. Lest I forget, when this movie takes place "the United States of America" doesn't exist anymore. America is in the midst of a civil war.


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This "V" has nothing in common with the 80s allegory on Communist/Nazi totalitarianism, the celebrated V miniseries. This one takes places in a future England and in reality its a Bush-bashing, Christian-bashing and Evil Amerikka dystopia ruled by repressive Republican fascists. If your politics are the moonbat variety, you'll love this movie. As Debbie Schlussel says, if you're like the rest of America, its more Hollywood garbage to avoid. Skip this far-lefty rotgut of a production.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

1 posted on 03/07/2006 7:21:37 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

Sounds like the remake of the Manchurian Candidate. Instead of a Commie conspiracy they did Halliburton conspiracy.


2 posted on 03/07/2006 7:28:13 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: goldstategop
If by 'classic' you mean impossibly cheezy and cliched, then you are right. :-)
3 posted on 03/07/2006 7:29:10 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: USNBandit
America as the DU moonbats see it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

4 posted on 03/07/2006 7:29:18 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

It looked to gay Spanish for my taste anyway.


5 posted on 03/07/2006 7:30:37 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
What is it with the Left's fetish for Abu Ghraib fashions? I'm surprised Hollywood didn't make them Oscar evening outfit ensembles.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

6 posted on 03/07/2006 7:32:48 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
The 80s Classic Sci Fi Allegory

"Classic" in the sense of "old", right?

Seriously, I loved the original miniseries.
However, the conclusion blew major league chunks. And the TV series looked like it was being planned from week to week.

The novelization tried to fix some stuff (and along the way condensed a half-hour of screen time into 2 or 3 sentences), but the ending being totally unexciting and anticlimatic.

Granted, it was better than the proposed second season of Battlestar Galactica.

7 posted on 03/07/2006 7:34:35 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: goldstategop; OrthodoxPresbyterian
Unless Ms. Schlussel has seen this yet-unreleased movie, her opinion is worthless.

I'll reserve judgment until I see it for myself.

8 posted on 03/07/2006 7:37:17 PM PST by jude24 ("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
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To: Tanniker Smith
"Classic" in the sense of timeless. The story never gets dated. It still holds its own 20 years later. In contrast, the "V" just put out by Hollywood reflects the Left's rage at everything America is doing to defend herself. It will not even be remembered a year from now and will be forgotten by the time Bush leaves office. Its that provincial in character.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

9 posted on 03/07/2006 7:37:36 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
It looked to me in commercials like Big Brother meets Zorro's gay cousin Vaseline Man.

Portman looked unappealing in the film as well.

If it is unAmerican enough, it could get an Oscar nod and send Hollywood deeper into insignificance.
10 posted on 03/07/2006 7:38:21 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: jude24
She's a movie critic and watches every film so you don't have to. She's a female version of Michael Medved. Yeah baby, Jews invented the movies and are now its best critics!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

11 posted on 03/07/2006 7:39:03 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Agreed. The first season of V was a fun shoot-em-up (Michael Ironside with teflon-coated bullets in a submachine gun - Ooooorah!) but the second season got PC and by the time the climax rolled around it was hot-air balloons spraying pink Peace Dust all over the world. At that point being eaten by the aliens would have been a kindness.
12 posted on 03/07/2006 7:39:52 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: goldstategop
Duh, the movie "V for Vendetta" is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, which was originally published as a 10-issue limited series between 1982 and 1985. Read and learn.
13 posted on 03/07/2006 7:40:27 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Bear@home)
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To: goldstategop
I don't think most people are confusing this movie with the television show "V" since most people don't know that there ever was a television show called "V".

Was that the one with the guy who had a big veiny head?

14 posted on 03/07/2006 7:40:32 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: goldstategop

Have you seen the movie? As of right now I plan to see it. I really don't think this movie is leftist propoganda. From what I've heard from other sources it sounds Ok.


15 posted on 03/07/2006 7:41:39 PM PST by ozoneliar ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
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To: dead
I made the point in the title the two are NOT the same. The only similarity is the title but that's all. The subject matter between the two shows is as different as day and night.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

16 posted on 03/07/2006 7:43:13 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

First, "V" is about a tyrannical U.K. government, not the U.S. and the way things are looking in the U.K. right now in real life, banned on guns and knifes, all they need is a public crackdown on free speech and the U.K. will be a tyranny.


17 posted on 03/07/2006 7:44:22 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Billthedrill
I almost didn't mind the pink dust. I didn't (and don't) like accelerated growth children who suddenly stop growing when they reach an appropriate age and then they suddenly save the world, inexplicably.

Btw, I knew that Diana checked the child's hormones or something to stop the quick aging... and then the series started and she was suddenly 16, but then she stayed 16.

18 posted on 03/07/2006 7:46:08 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: goldstategop
I kind of figured this about the flick when I saw previews for it.

Then again, I'm the guy who thought that the Agents in The Matrix were good guys right up until Neo gave them "the finger" and demanded his phone call... at that point, I was like, "oh, these are supposed to be bad guys." Because until then, I knew the following things: 1. Trinity was a cop-killer. 2. Agent Smith had advised the police not to go in after her, for their own safety. 3. The Agents were offering Neo a deal if he would help bring in a "terrorist" who was associated with the cop-killing Trinity.

That always surprises people whenever I tell them that.

19 posted on 03/07/2006 7:46:56 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Its really an allegory about Bush's America. But not to detain people further, the movie doesn't address the real threat to the West: Islam. If there's tyranny in store in our future, its from those who want to impose the Sharia on us. I'm sorry to have to tell the Left despite their twisted fantasies, that's not coming from Republicans.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

20 posted on 03/07/2006 7:47:42 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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