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What Are Some Great Films Not Adapted from Books?
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V for Vendetta is a great movie and is better than the graphic novel.
I like both a lot, they're both very much a product of the times, places, and people that created them.
The movie being very much a reaction to Bush-era US politics through the perspective of the Wachowskis, and the comic a reaction to Thatcherism through Alan Moore's eyes
There are definitely parallels to be drawn between the two contexts, and the same overall story with some tweaks works well for both.
Being a millennial in the US, the movie definitely resonates with me a little more deeply, but my inner anarchist wishes they kept a little more of Moore's vision intact, though V just giving a lecture on anarchy in the middle of the movie probably wouldn't translate well to the silver screen.