'V for Vendetta' director James McTeigue lauds Anonymous mask use
Published Mar 5 2012, 14:28 GMT | By Ben Rawson-Jones and Simon Reynolds
V For Vendetta director James McTeigue has applauded hacker group Anonymous's use of the distinctive masks from the comic book movie.McTeigue, whose John Cusack-led movie The Raven opens in the UK on March 9, told Digital Spy that he enjoys seeing the Guy Fawkes masks in use by protestors seeking anonymity.
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"I think whether it's the Anonymous guys, Occupy Wall Street or the Scientologist protestors, whenever you can do something that seeps in culturally that's a great thing," the Australian filmmaker said.
"Ultimately when Alan Moore and David Lloyd made the original V For Vendetta it was an approximation of Guy Fawkes, who was the original agitator, I guess, in this country."
McTeigue added: "I like seeing it around. It's good that you can have a discussion about things that are anti-establishment. If you can be anonymous behind the mask, then it's great."
The movie adaptation of V For Vendetta, starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving, centred on a masked revolutionary called V as he attempts to bring down a totalitarian regime in the UK.
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Fortunately for him his film making is better than his grasp on history.
March 12th 2012 at 3:26am
All this chaos, genocide, ethnic cleansing and the overall disasters have a genuine purpose. It is all very carefully planned by a few people, mostly men, behind the scenes, high up in the society, above any power structure that the ordinary citizen is aware of. It is a modern extension of an old theme to "take over the world". To those people, power, control and wealth is their true religion and they use any means they can to maintain their power and control, including murder and genocide.
These people on top, who basically are of Royal Bloodlines, is currently working on reducing the world population in order to easier maintain their control, and ultimately the strive towards a centralization of power, which will include the whole world.
This is a very old plan; something the same bloodlines have been working towards for millennia. However, now is the time when they have the means to accomplish their goal and fulfill the "Work of the Ages". They see us citizens as inferior and are dehumanizing us in their own minds to the extent that they don't care if we live or if we die. In a future Global Society, if they manage to accomplish this to its full extent, you and I will be no more than slaves, whom they can kill and treat as they want anytime they want.
Many people call this the New World Order, but it is really an Old World Order which is now about to be fully accomplished, unless we do something about it.
March 6th 2012 at 12:35am
its totally a totalitarian regime. they got drones and tsas used on us now. Martial law bills and all the rest of it.
March 6th 2012 at 12:33am
...The Scientology protesters *were* Anonymous.
March 5th 2012 at 3:36pm