Phyrfight Intel

V for Vendetta, a film based on a 1980s graphic novel, was released to theaters late last week and with it (for me at least) came confusion and frustration. What could have been a great film about the tenacity of free will and the unwavering human desire for liberty was twisted and mangled into an anti-Bush, Mulslim-loving fright fest. Even the author of the graphic novel wanted nothing to do with the film.

“He told MTV, ‘[My comic] has been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country… [The film] is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what “V for Vendetta” [the comic] was about.'” (from the townhall.com movie review)

Sounds like someone screwed up.