Maybe even more so.” Given this, and especially given his summary of the debate as “should we be ruled,” there is only ever one position that Alan Moore has ever taken at any point in his life. I realized that the only way to treat it honestly was to take the fascist characters and get deeply involved in their mentality.” It was not, obviously, that Moore was without any moral investment in the debate between anarchism and fascism-a debate Moore has suggested is both the absolute heart of all political debate and one that is in fact “as much a matter of the emotions and spirit as they are matters of abstract intellect and politics.

But it didn’t work like that – it came out superficial and hollow. Moore had originally envisioned V for Vendetta as an exploration of anarchism vs fascism in which all sides were taken seriously-as early as 1984 Moore talked about how he originally “ intended it to be a pretty trite piece of propaganda. Moore’s evolution over the seven years of the project is perhaps clearest, however, in the larger thematic issues. ” – Grant Morrison, 2005 interview with Suicide Girls If they had any sense, they would have befriended me instead of pissing me off. “In the end, I was glad they got the ideas out but very disappointed that they blew it so badly and distorted all the Gnostic transcendental aspects that made the first film so strong and potent. Previously in Last War in Albion: Alan Moore’s first post- Watchmen project saw him returning to the beginning of his career to finish V for Vendetta.

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