Alan Moore talks about the V for Vendetta movie

[andrewducker]

here

"It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed."

What Moore found most laughable however were the details. "They don't know what British people have for breakfast, they couldn't be bothered. 'Eggy in a basket' apparently. Now the US have 'eggs in a basket,' whish is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle. I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought 'eggy in a basket' was a quaint and Olde Worlde version. And they decided that the British postal service is called Fedco. They'll have thought something like, 'well, what's a British version of FedEx... how about FedCo? A friend of mine had to point out to them that the Fed, in FedEx comes from 'Federal Express.' America is a federal republic, Britain is not."

Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

JESUS! Oh well. I purposely missed 'From Hell'. I can live without this movie too.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

There seems to be some sort of lesson here. US comics seem to translate well to Hollywood screenplays -- in the sense that they require no amendment to make them congruent with the prevailing culture -- while UK comics have to be rewritten to make them "fit in".

One could of course argue that since the UK comic has already sold in the US it shouldn't been to be "adapted" -- but Hollywood presumably argues that because the comics audience is much smaller than the film one, the sensibilities of the latter should be paramount.

Still, it all adds up to one more film I don't have to bother with....

[mb2u]

Alan Moore has had the worst luck with the corporate whores, hasn't he? Marvel, DC, Warner...They all seem to find a way to treat the man badly and reinforce his opinion that it's all bad.

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

I mean what.

That God that my initial sleep-addled reading of your post was incorrect, however. I thought they were going to set the movie in the US. To which my response would have been a resounding WTF.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

But if you're wanting Americans of that stripe to watch the film, then they're making the perfect changes..... If you make a film for ignorant people, ignorant people will watch it. And they are, it would seem, in the majority.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Now the US have 'eggs in a basket,' whish is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle.

We do? No we don't.

[andrewducker]

Yes you do:
http://www.lanierbb.com/recipes/data/2969.html

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Oh well. Michigan's almost Canada anyways. : p

Here's an apparent British recipe. Also found some Canadian and Australian sites with the egg-in-bread version. I'm guessing it's not a common breakfast in the US or the UK. That British recipe doesn't sound like a breakfast, so maybe someone just caught the name and presumed it was one.