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--- Quote from: jariku ---For the dissidents among you, here's a website about the anarchist ideas in V for Vendetta and how they're portrayed in the movie.
http://www.aforanarchy.com/
Nothing much content-wise yet, but hopefully there'll be regular updates now that the movie is out and about.
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What's the world coming to, when the anarchists are this organised?
Sideways:
--- Quote from: Leonidas ---There are parallels with Hitler in terms of the rallies, the symbolism, the hatred of "inferior" peoples, and obviously the concentration camps. However, when you are dealing with the manipulation of the public through the media, the use of fear as a political tool, and the corruption at the highest level of government in order to gain more and more power, then the parralels are very much with Bush and Bliar.
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Must.... restrain.... self.....
I don't know if this has already been addressed, but:
"The manipulation of the public through the media, the use of fear as a political tool and the corruption at the highest level of government in order to gain more and more power" is more of a parallel with BUSH AND BLAIR than it is with HITLER?!?!!?
Someone seriously needs to re-read their German history from about 1924-1938. Seriously. If you don't think Hitler fearmongered, manipulated media and exploited government corruption to get into the position he held... then you're simply quite ignorant of historical facts.
I certainly am not one to defend Bush, but what Bush has done in no way compares to what Hitler did.
Bastardous Bassist:
Are you saying that killing millions of people is worse than getting a country involved in a couple of conflicts that aren't turning out so well?
Kai:
BLASPHEMY
KharBevNor:
There are definite Bush parallels though. The main one is that the rewriting of Norsefire's rise to power, from taking control after a Nuclear War to gaining control through staged incidents of mass terrorism is a reference to the conspiracy theory that Bush let 9/11 go ahead, if not staging it himself. You could talk about the Reichstag Fire as well, but it's clearly a post 9/11 film. Also, there's the change in style of Prothero from the cool 'voice of fate', to a reactionary tv pundit somewhat in the vain of Pat Robertson, with his frequent mentions of 'Godlessness' as the reason for the downfall of other nations. The religious aspect is of course mentioned in the Graphic Novel, and is strongly implied with Lilliman, but is not as explicit in the parties propaganda, although the novel does portray a scene indicating that christianity has been thoroughly nazified, absent from the film.
Rather than being about Bush and Blair instead of Hitler, I think it's more trying to draw parallels between various historical events and the events of the film.
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