The Four Color Media Monitor

Earlier this week, the MSM's comics representative, Captain Comics, wrote the following about the upcoming movie of V for Vendetta, scheduled to debut March 17:

...McTeigue might turn the property into a simple morality tale, or worse, an action film. But hopefully the movie will make us think just as much as the graphic novel does.

For my part, I'm looking forward to it - and to the ensuing debate about who and what "V" is.

Or, maybe not. Because the great radioblogger Debbie Schlussel has just published an advance review of this very wretched movie that not only refutes what Capt. Comics is saying about making us think just as much as the novel, but might also make him want to think twice about looking forward to any other such debates either. From Debbie's article:

Based on the graphic novel series of the same name, "V" comes complete with all the bogeymen the far left loves to hate: NSA spying and wiretaps; government renditions and torture complete with Abu Ghraib hood fashions; lecherous, elderly Christian clerics in collars raping young girls; Islam, gay rights, and free speech under attack; and even a Bill O'Reilly-esque evil cable talk show host/wicked pharmaceutical billionaire/heinous military officer combo rolled into one character.

And I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't even attack O'Reilly for any of the right reasons either (no, I can't stand O'Reilly; he interrupts people, and he's basically a right-wing moonbat himself). But that aside, if the similarities here make sense, then that shows that this could certainly be an attack on America for "violating" the rights of terrorist scum being held in Abu Graib, with total disregard for innocent victims of Islamofacism such as Daniel Pearl.

...America and the war on Iraq are the enemies--along with Christians and the right--in this movie. We are treated to newscasts about how "America's War [on terror] spread to England." One character--a gay, British Jay Leno type who hosts a latenight show--keeps a secret vault of prohibited items, including a giant poster of "the Coalition of the Willing," depicting the American and British flags surrounding a swastika. Think about our troops fighting and dying in Iraq, before you decide to give your dollars to this film. Do you really think they are Nazis?

Also in the secret vault of sacred prohibited items: a Koran. Portman, whose Evie is the "heroine" of "V," asks, why the Koran? "Are you a Muslim?" she asks the late-night host. "No, but its [the Koran's] images are beautiful." Then he comments about how he can be executed for possessing the Koran. (Not a peep in this film about the thousands who've been executed in the name of the Koran and "its beautiful images.")

Puh-leeze. If anything, both Britain and the U.S. have bent over backwards not only for the Koran, but for its extremist Muslim followers. Where Christian displays are absolutely forbidden in any schools, despite so-called "freedom of speech"; where Ten Commandments are removed from the Alabama Supreme Court, despite their being the basis for our legal system; children are required to learn about Islam, read from the Koran, and behave as Muslims in elementary schools, in the name of "tolerance" and "education."

In "V", while Islam and the Koran are treasured but prohibited, Christianity is pure evil. Nice juxtaposition, when in real life, the 19 hijackers, the '93 WTC, U.S. Embassy, U.S.S. Cole, and British subway bombers were hardly Christians. Hmmm . . . what religion were they? We don't recall Mohammed Taheri-Azar, saying on Friday in his post attempted-murder 911 call, that he tried to use his jeep to kill Americans in the name of Jesus. No, he mentioned someone else's name, another religion . . . which are both nowhere blasphemed in "V."

I agree, it's the screenplay for this movie that's evil, and yet one more in Hollywood's increasing attack on Christianity.

It gets worse:

We've already mentioned the high-ranking Christian priest, who regularly rapes young girls procured for him through an "agency." Before the priesthood, he was an evil military officer at a hospital where politically dissident youth had experiments conducted on them for the government (complete with Abu Ghraib-style hoods).

Then, there's the government. It's run by a religious Christian zealot. But not just any Christian zealot.

No. Chancellor Sutler is the supreme evil Christian. In order to get elected, he and the Bill O'Reilly-esque character (remember, before he became a cable host, he was a pharmaceutical CEO and made billions) arranged for hundreds of Brits to die from chemically poisoned water. The government said that terrorists did it, a story which became accepted fact and the conventional wisdom in media coverage....

It's no coincidence that the symbol used for his government is some sort of Cross-come-Swastika combo. Not offended yet?

Under religious Christian zealot Sutler, gays are rounded up, imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Ditto for any dissidents, any left-wing activists, anyone who dares speak out against or flout the Chancellor's actions. Tell that to the ACLU, which seems to be running legal policy in our country, these days, and its partner in crime, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the wealthiest "public interest" group in the U.S., to the tune of hundreds of millions. We don't see any prospect of them being rounded up by the government anytime soon, unfortunately.

Nor the filmmakers who exploited Alan Moore's property for their own brainless biases, angering him so much that even he wanted out of this whole nightmarish project. I wonder what the moviemakers would say if they knew what Islam believes in, on the other hand.

Overall, the most outrageous thing about "V" is the ending. Instead of vanquishing terror, all of Britain sides with the terrorist hero of this movie. They celebrate his murder of all the top officials in government, his blowing up of the Houses of Parliament and other government buildings.

Terrorists and terrorism are the heroes, the government fighting them and trying to keep us safe are the enemy.

This is the glorious revolution? Osama Bin Laden must be very proud.

And tragically so. How DARE Capt. Comics act totally oblivious to what Debbie has the guts to let us know about! And as far as I'm concerned, if this is what moviemaking and even comic book adaptations are going to amount to, then it's best for the film industry to just close down.

Labels: islam and jihad, msm propaganda, terrorism