Lots of Vendetta, Little Anarchy

I deleted portions of my review of V for Vendetta to save space. Most notably I droped the sections questioning its harsh treatment of conservatives and the lack of real anti-state (as opposed to anti-conservative) rheteric. Both are reasons that one of the co-authors of the original graphic novel wanted nothing to do with the movie.

Via Lew Rockwell.

Alan Moore, the author of the original V for Vendetta comic book explains in this interview why he took his name off the film:

The British have always had sympathy with a dashing villain. So I decided to use this to political effect by coming up with a projected Fascist state in the near future and setting an anarchist against that. As far I'm concerned, the two poles of politics were not Left Wing or Right Wing. In fact they're just two ways of ordering an industrial society and we're fast moving beyond the industrial societies of the 19th and 20th centuries. It seemed to me the two more absolute extremes were anarchy and fascism. This was one of the things I objected to in the recent film, where it seems to be, from the script that I read, sort of recasting it as current American neo-conservatism vs. current American liberalism. There wasn't a mention of anarchy as far as I could see. The fascism had been completely defanged.