Comments on: V for Vendetta http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/03/24/v-for-vendetta/ A barrister gossips & rants on intellectual property law, the legal system and civil liberties. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/03/24/v-for-vendetta/#comment-1262 Geeklawyer Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:38:12 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=406#comment-1262 Thanks for the correction lilian. I dug out this link http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/news.html#moorevfv which discussed the shifting of the film's dichotomy from Fascism v Anarchy to Fascism v Democracy. That certainly made a few things in the film click into place. Thanks for the correction lilian. I dug out this link http://www.alanmoorefansite.com/news.html#moorevfv which discussed the shifting of the film’s dichotomy from Fascism v Anarchy to Fascism v Democracy. That certainly made a few things in the film click into place.

]]> By: Lilian Edwards http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/03/24/v-for-vendetta/#comment-1261 Lilian Edwards Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:00:59 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=406#comment-1261 ER, it's not David Lloyd who was unhappy, but Alan Moore the writer and main visionary of V (yes, i know way too much about this.) What it does strike me as is the perfect test case of the offense of "glorification of terorism" (since like you, and like almost everyone I know who has seen it, I too cheered the blowing up of the H of P). If only they would get on with passing it we could have some real fun! ER, it’s not David Lloyd who was unhappy, but Alan Moore the writer and main visionary of V (yes, i know way too much about this.)

What it does strike me as is the perfect test case of the offense of “glorification of terorism” (since like you, and like almost everyone I know who has seen it, I too cheered the blowing up of the H of P). If only they would get on with passing it we could have some real fun!

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/03/24/v-for-vendetta/#comment-1260 Geeklawyer Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:40:53 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=406#comment-1260 In the film America was dispatched swiftly by the device of a viral plague that rendered it into a state of civil war where it was unconcerned with the rest of the world and thus not interested in "WW2 the sequel". As for <i>"Sounds a lot like America in 2006 to me..."</i>: I tend to think that Britain is what America would be without the protection of a written constitution and a vigilant and independant judiciary. In the film America was dispatched swiftly by the device of a viral plague that rendered it into a state of civil war where it was unconcerned with the rest of the world and thus not interested in “WW2 the sequel”.

As for “Sounds a lot like America in 2006 to me…”: I tend to think that Britain is what America would be without the protection of a written constitution and a vigilant and independant judiciary.

]]> By: Mark Levitt http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/03/24/v-for-vendetta/#comment-1259 Mark Levitt Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:02:11 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=406#comment-1259 "Supposedly this is England after German victory in some World War " Sounds a lot like America in 2006 to me... “Supposedly this is England after German victory in some World War ”

Sounds a lot like America in 2006 to me…

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