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00:58 - Oh, now what?
http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/trailer_2.html
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"If our government was responsible for the deaths of 100,000 people..."
Well, I'm sure this will prove cathartic for a few folks.
I just want to know: Doesn't it start to get a little monotonous to members of our creative caste, who hear nothing but this sort of stuff from each other all day long?
By way of example—I'll be sitting here, minding my own business, listening to a perfectly normal song, when suddenly there'll be a totally gratuitous line out of nowhere like "There's an ogre in the Oval Office." Like Douglas Adams' proverbial randomly flung fist in a crowd, I never see it coming, though by now I guess I should be expecting it everywhere.
Do these artists think they're being brave? Original? That they're telling people something they've never heard before? That one of these songs or movies will finally be what brings an end to our national shameful slumber and rouses the populace to action? Is this dreary drumbeat what "creativity" means today?
So Vendetta is from a Vertigo comic, huh? Well, here's another one for you:
(Preacher, from the Salvation storyline. And given a few choice word replacements, this might as well be a commentary on what passes as "liberal" philosophy these days. How sad is that?)
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Brian Tiemann
