Boring Sketchbook, Interesting Day

[tealin]

Actually working in publishing might not be so much fun, but having a roommate who does certainly is! Last night I got to see a preview of V For Vendetta (courtesy of Warner Books) and ... it was actually quite good. The Matrix people seem to have remembered that having an editor is actually a good thing, which is a plus. I won't say too much, except that the pacing and acting and, yes, even the writing were good, though Natalie Portman's accent was not (Vowels! Vowels! Is it so hard?), and ... STEPHEN FRYYYY! (eep!) I also suggest to those who go to see it that you sit in the back half of the theatre – I was near the front and some of the scenes were ... a little too frenetic.

Today's recommended daily allowance of cryptic comments is brought to you by the letter V.

WEDNESDAY'S SKETCHBOOK
Page One - Traded bus people for movie theatre people! Also, trying to remember how I drew someone's face, and some studies for an amusing sketch for the above song.
Page Two - More people standing around, and another study. I told you it was a boring sketchbook day, when will you people read the subject line? ;)

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Curiosity says: is Alan Moore British? Because, if he is, and if the odd little snatches of black comedy sprinkled throughout the movie are his responsibility, then that goes to reinforce my theory that only Brits know how to do black comedy right.* If he isn't, or if the black comedy comes from the Wachowskis, then that's some sort of miracle. I'm assuming he is because according to Jon Stewart (who knows everything, obviously) the original graphic novel was a critique of the Thatcher government,** and he wouldn't have any reason to cock a snook at it if he wasn't under its thumb ... eh? Eh? Right? Yes? No? And how many Americans know anything about Guy Fawkes? [behold as she flails]

[niteflite.livejournal.com]

British. He also wrote the Graphic Novel "From Hell". Yay for Jack the Ripper!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

... I KNEW it! HAH!

[basking in rightness]

Well, I certainly liked the movie version of V better than From Hell, which seemed to be an excuse for the director to find more and more artistic ways to portray more and more gruesome murder scenes. :P

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I know some about Guy Fawkes (which, based on the tag line form last year, I assumed the movie was about), but then I was just barely in England, and we got to see a nifty little historical-recreational-play all about it at the Tower of London. Very interesting!




Oh - wait. Was I supposed to fill you in about Guy Fawkes?
You're so cute when you flail!