I heard an interview (link worth following for her rapping on SNL) of Natalie Portman on NPR a week or two ago and it made the movie sound somewhat interesting although I didn’t have a clue about what the movie was really about. Being completely out of the loop on what Hollywood is pushing for movies these days I didn’t even know the movie had been out a couple weeks and was making good money. In short I liked the movie. Seeing the credits I wasn’t surprised to see it was done by the Wachowski brothers. They seem to be into dystopian future underdog antihero action flicks.
While I don’t follow Hollywood too closely I’m surprised after having seen it that this movie isn’t causing more of a stir in places that I do pay attention. Maybe it’s that the conservatives and Bush-lovers think it’s just more of the typical liberal/Hollywood propoganda? The parallels and implicit condemnation of the direction America is being led are so blatent I’d think it would be annoying more people…
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The movie’s based on a comic book that was more about anarchists versus facism, and not about liberalism versus conservatives. But they changed it to be that for the movie, which is one of the reasons the original creator has asked that his name be removed from the movie although that request wasn’t granted.
There’s a lot of interesting stuff to read about the creation of this movie and the original intent of the comic book and the creator. He was also unhappy with where the Wachowski brothers took it, apparently.