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Apr. 20th, 2006
Which would be the movie novellization of "V for Vendetta", which like the soundtrack, I can't find *ANYWHERE* around here, so I had to order it (gently used and at half-price) off Amazon.com. I've started reading it, and I'm enjoying it as much as I did the movie.
Don't tell me that it's coincidence that it happened to arrive on the anniversary of Hitler's birthday. Which is also the anniversary of the Columbine Massacre, which some pundits like to accuse the Wachowski Brothers of inciting, since the two messed-up kids who committed that terrible deed happened to wear black trenchcoats like the main characters in a Certain Trilogy. Excuse me, but didn't the first movie happen to come out maybe a week before the massacre? It sounded like those kids were wearing black trenchcoats before the movie came out. Putting the cart before the horse much?
Which gets me off onto the subject of people making judgements about you based on what you wear, like the teachers who scrutinized me because I was wearing a black trenchcoat while I was waiting for a bus in front of a school in Lowell, or the nuts who thought I was Muslim just because I was wearing a black scarf wound around my head at work to keep the draft from the doors off my head and neck when it was cold. People can think what they want to about me, but if they start treating me differently because of this, that's when I get a little disgruntled. I just want to be treated with the kind of respect and deference that every being deserves....
Back on topic: I had to run some errands today, and that included nipping into the drug store nearby. They happened to have a recent issue of "Starlog" magazine on the newsstand, so I picked that up and flipped through it, to find an article on "V for Vendetta", specifically an interview with Natalie Portman. This gets interesting: since V's mystique and persona are inspired by Guy Fawkes, he of the Gunpowder Plot in the 1600s, the Wachowskis had Ms. Portman and Hugo Weaving both read Antonia Frazer's "Faith and Treason", an excellent and empathetic treatment of the Gunpowder Plot and what incited Guy Fawkes and his compatriots to make the attempt that they did. What's even more strange is that my mother has a copy of that book, which I happened to pick up and start reading just a few days ago.
Funny fannish thought: Reloaded and Revs featured swarms of Agent Smith clones. "V for Vendetta" features a flash mob of people wearing V's hat, mask, and cloak. There's something significant here, but I can't think of what it is for the life of me...
Don't tell me that it's coincidence that it happened to arrive on the anniversary of Hitler's birthday. Which is also the anniversary of the Columbine Massacre, which some pundits like to accuse the Wachowski Brothers of inciting, since the two messed-up kids who committed that terrible deed happened to wear black trenchcoats like the main characters in a Certain Trilogy. Excuse me, but didn't the first movie happen to come out maybe a week before the massacre? It sounded like those kids were wearing black trenchcoats before the movie came out. Putting the cart before the horse much?
Which gets me off onto the subject of people making judgements about you based on what you wear, like the teachers who scrutinized me because I was wearing a black trenchcoat while I was waiting for a bus in front of a school in Lowell, or the nuts who thought I was Muslim just because I was wearing a black scarf wound around my head at work to keep the draft from the doors off my head and neck when it was cold. People can think what they want to about me, but if they start treating me differently because of this, that's when I get a little disgruntled. I just want to be treated with the kind of respect and deference that every being deserves....
Back on topic: I had to run some errands today, and that included nipping into the drug store nearby. They happened to have a recent issue of "Starlog" magazine on the newsstand, so I picked that up and flipped through it, to find an article on "V for Vendetta", specifically an interview with Natalie Portman. This gets interesting: since V's mystique and persona are inspired by Guy Fawkes, he of the Gunpowder Plot in the 1600s, the Wachowskis had Ms. Portman and Hugo Weaving both read Antonia Frazer's "Faith and Treason", an excellent and empathetic treatment of the Gunpowder Plot and what incited Guy Fawkes and his compatriots to make the attempt that they did. What's even more strange is that my mother has a copy of that book, which I happened to pick up and start reading just a few days ago.
Funny fannish thought: Reloaded and Revs featured swarms of Agent Smith clones. "V for Vendetta" features a flash mob of people wearing V's hat, mask, and cloak. There's something significant here, but I can't think of what it is for the life of me...