1984 was about what would happen if liberals and/or socialists were in control. Orwell uses liberalism/socialism to the extreme to make his points.
V for Vendetta is based on the characters from vertigo... Which is about a totalitarian government. V uses conservatism and the idea of a republic to an extreme to make an argument.
I think it would do Orwell an injustice to compare his stance with the stance of Alan Moore, as the two have completely opposite points of view on the matter.
1984 was about totalitarianism not liberalism or socialism (orwell was a self proclaimed socialist). the characters of napoleon and snowball are stalin and trotsky (hence the exile).
it was definately not a bout totalitarianism.. the whole idea of censoring everything to make everyone equal is a liberal/socialist idea. George Orwell was not a socialist! The whole government in Ociane was described as Ingsoc which is newspeak for English Socialism. Check wikipedia George Orwell and Ray Bradbury both despised socialism and liberalism.... that's what most of their stories are about.
Besides more on Point, V for Vendetta not only has no parallells to today's governmanet, but doesn't porport to, alan moore refuses to have his name put in the credits, partially because of the W brotheres adding references to current events when the story takes place in the late 90's... not 2020
all i was told before i went to see the movie was that it was based on 1984...have you read 1984? And napoleon and snowball were from "animal farm" not 1984.
my bad. orwell wrote extensively on stalin and hitler (more on stalin than anyone else), the idea that he is pro-conservative is laughable, also the english conservative party is more like our democratic one the labor party is the conservative one. politics suck anyway
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V for Vendetta is based on the characters from vertigo... Which is about a totalitarian government. V uses conservatism and the idea of a republic to an extreme to make an argument.
I think it would do Orwell an injustice to compare his stance with the stance of Alan Moore, as the two have completely opposite points of view on the matter.
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Besides more on Point, V for Vendetta not only has no parallells to today's governmanet, but doesn't porport to, alan moore refuses to have his name put in the credits, partially because of the W brotheres adding references to current events when the story takes place in the late 90's... not 2020
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but 1984 has absolutley nothing to do with V...
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is that a snail-person icon I see? I miss your snails :(
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