(March 20, 2009 at 8:20 am)Tiberius Wrote: Yeah, but surely every movie other than historical films have an alternate history?
Not really ... most films are just stories set within more-or-less known times, a slightly distorted version of now or a slight rewrite for whatever end (like U571 rewrote the Enigma story so that the Yanks got it first) but "V is for Vendetta" is clearly a fully alternate history IMO. Without trying to claim Wiki as an authority it says there, "V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic-book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious anarchist named 'V' works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters." Also if you look to the bottom of the page it lists it amongst a number of categories including "Science Fiction" so clearly I'm not alone in the view that that is what it is.
Interestingly it only becomes an alternate history because it was filmed in the 20000 and set in (relatively) an alternate late 1900's ... I don't know when the comic book series written.
Obviously we are not going to agree on this but wouldn't it be a boring world if we all did?
Kyu
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