V for Vendetta is probably one of the most controversial graphic novels I've read for an English class this week. However groundbreaking I thought the movie was, the graphic novel is at least twenty billion times better. At LEAST. Famously, though, it is rife with controversy. Critics have called it a a step-by-step guide for overthrowing the government.
When the movie first came out, the American people were...let's just say "dissatisfied" with the government. Bush's approval rating was way, way down, and regret for voting for him running high, not to mention the patriot act. So, in this time of national disgruntlement, out comes a movie that not only doesn't refrain from suggesting to overthrow the government; it revels in it. It might as well be saying "Hey, you guys are suckers if you do what this guy in charge says. Come with me into the land of do-a-you-please!" (if you'll excuse my overt reference. That's not actually in the movie though, so I think I'm safe.)
The book, though, has some controversy as well. At the time, comic books were for ten-year-olds with overactive imaginations. Not many believed that one could be a work of high art, or of great fiction, but lo-and-behold. Even for comic books it was racy. Nudity and curses pepper throughout, and grisly ends are the soup of the day. Any ten-year-old could grab this off the shelf and have his innocence ruined forever. Which is fantastic, because ten-year-olds are punks anyway, and they just need to grow up.
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Don't you mean Mos Eisley?
It IS possible. :D
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