03-26-2006, 10:34 AM
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Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It!
Location: Southern England
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Saw it last night - I honestly cannot fault a thing about it. It was a revalation to me to see that Portman can act - she had little enough chance to try in the SW eps 1-3.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
The crux of the adaptation question, for me, is Spoiler: V's deal with Creedy. That's an element that the Wachowskis added, and I'm not sure I like it. It buys them the main action sequence in the film, but at the cost of V's integrity. He makes a deal with the devil, and then breaks it. I don't think you can do that without costing the character something.
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Spoiler: By making the deal with Cready, V didn't have to murder anyone - if Cready had stuck to his side of the deal, V and Cready could have walked away alive. Cready excuted the High Chancellor, and then tried to murder V, who retailiated in self defense - I thought this was a very clever way of allowing V to retain his integrity and keep his hands clean, if Cready had been honest, he wouldn't have died, V could have still overthrown the government
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