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White House Insists Stephen Miller Does Not Play with Dolls (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't watch the movie but I found the political lectures from V to be very fitting. Yeah it's preachy from Moore, but it's Moore and V saying "hey, V isn't an anarchist because he kills fascists and breaks laws, anarchism is an ideology and he's clinging to it as the opposite of fascism"

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, don't get me wrong I enjoyed his lectures, it's just very much not going to be everyone's cup of tea and certainly not something that would have translated well to a movie

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah ironically I think the lectures are even more important to do the story justice in a filmed medium. The comic keeps demanding you turn your brain on but people resist that in movies and movies (and tv) struggle to get people interacting critically with themes. The movie's cultural impact was politically confused when you could do a voice over of him explaining anarchism during one of the scenes, a montage, or broken up throughout the "The Land of Do-As-You-Please" section of the story or in Evie's lessons.

I don't think it would've been super popular among audiences or the production company, but it would've been really hammering in the themes and points that the comic was appropriately heavy handed with.