![]() But anyway, unlike Death Note, I wouldn't say that the story in Code Geass is particularly notable or unique. The similarities between the two series are superficial at best, and though I can see why people would draw the comparison, I don't really think that dis/liking one means that you'll dis/like the other. STORY - Before I saw this series, it was described to me on multiple occasions as 'Death Note with mechas.' After seeing it, however, I am inclined to disagree. I was incredibly skeptical about Code Geass at first, but I'm very pleased to say that I was greatly surprised. The verdict on V for Vendetta is four stars.Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Picture Drama, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Picture Drama - Hajimari no Zenya, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Picture Drama - Kiseki no Anniversary, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Picture Drama - Kamen Kokuhaku Taikai, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch DVD Magazine Picture DramaĬode Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Recaps, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Special Edition - Black RebellionĬode Geass: Boukoku no Akito 1 - Yokuryuu wa Maiorita, Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 2 - Hikisakareshi Yokuryuu, Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 3 - Kagayaku Mono Ten yori Otsu, Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 4 - Nikushimi no Kioku kara, Code Geass: Soubou no Oz Picture Drama, Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 5 - Itoshiki Mono-tachi eĬode Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch - Nunnally in WonderlandĬode Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch I - Koudou, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch II - Handou It’s an allegorical story that should resonate in the Bush era as much as Moore’s work did in Thatcher’s day. It’s an emotionally complex counter-culture rant about ideas and the importance of being true to your ideas. It is a film about civil liberties in which you root for the terrorist. He is covered with a Guy Fawkes mask for the entire film and through vocal and physical inflections manages grand, operatic passion, conveying conflicting emotions from great anger to tenderness to despair. ![]() But as good as she is it is Hugo Weaving as V who steals the show, no mean feat considering that we never see his face. Natalie Portman-bald and beautiful for part of the film-is very effective as Evie, particularly in some brutal emotional scenes that replicate the atrocities of the Holocaust. Too many character tangents take away from the main focus of the piece. On the downside every character seems to take the story on a different digression. V for Vendetta echoes many classic grim speculative fictions about the future-A Clockwork Orange, Brazil and Fahrenheit 451 come to mind-and is very effective in creating an atmosphere where everything from homosexuality to Islam has been declared illegal. Joining him in his updated one-man Gunpowder Plot is Evie (Natalie Portman) a bull-headed heroine who rebels against the norm. V wears a Fawkes mask and plans to stick it to the man with a bang on November 5, on the anniversary of his predecessor’s failed attempt. The street fightin’ man is named V and his libertarian campaign of terror, (and his life), are based on Guy Fawkes, who in 1605 tried to blow up London’s Parliament. Set in futuristic Britain-one that closely resembles not only the grim world the brothers created for The Matrix but also George Orwell’s 1984-neo-fascists have gained control, keeping the public under their boot-heel by imposing a cruel reign of law and order while stripping away personal rights and freedoms. ![]() The Wachowski Brothers, creators of The Matrix movies, wrote the screenplay based on an anti-Margaret Thatcher comic book by writer Alan Moore. ![]() ![]() I know that sentence is verbose and confusing, but that’s OK, because the movie is a bit like that as well, but it is also entertaining and exciting. It’s a vessel for variations of alliteration and the veritable veneration for the Count of Monte Cristo and English folk hero Guy Fawkes. The film V for Vendetta is a vivid new version of a vintage graphic novel about the veracity of venturing acts of virtuous vengeance and violence with a view to vanquishing the victims of vile governmental vermin and emerge victorious. ![]()
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