10 Great 'Have' Vs 'Have Not' Films

8. V For Vendetta

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. A heralded and celebrated graphic novel by Alan Moore about complete and utter fascism and oppression of a people in a post nuclear war era, with Britain not just being the last man standing, but being the last man standing because it crushed everyone else. Alan Moore seemingly hated the film adaptation for generally Americanizing his heavily anarchist character V as a Superhero archetype. The film, regardless, was a great piece of comic book filmmaking that expressed heavily political views into a mainstream market. V for Vendetta inspired numerous movement groups into action for their various causes, and the V costume, mainly the Guy Fawkes masks, can be seen in many of those demonstrations, from Occupy Wall Street, the 2011 Egytian Youth Revolutions, to the internet hacker group Anonymous adopting it as their symbol in a meme. While the focus in this film is taking back the power to rule yourself, it was almost a Barman meets Robin Hood concept, as he inspired a revolution by helping people in a vigilante format. A small variation on the plot in subcontext is the stripping of everything Evey has to break her down. Slowly turning her into V's protege and confidant. taking on a small microcosm of the reality of the world with Evey representing the population, and her torture and isolation by V as the government, without her knowledge of who was actually keeping her held captive. There are other implications, but this one suits the purposes of this editorial. This is a great comic book film, wreathed in politics, steeped in violence, accented in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, bathed in Comic Book blood...even if that blood was transfused with american red, siphoning off the british blue. It's still a great piece of cinema.