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Name: Ryan
Location: Allen, Texas, United States
Birthday: 5/16/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: I love music. Something about the way I am wired can cause my soul to be moved and my day to be made or broken by single striking of a note.
To say that Christ is an interest is an understatement. Without Him there is no breath or life to anything I do.
I like things that are visually or aurally artistic, things from the heart and soul, things that speak of the depth of who we are, ideas and thoughts that reveal there is more to us than living and dying and making the best of it in-between.
Expertise: I want to say music but I wouldn't want to cheapen the real experts...
I'm also good at not doing anything and being indecisive.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  writimagination
Member Since:
12/24/2004
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been tinkering around with a personal site/blog for a while and have
finally gotten to a point that I feel comfortable inviting people to
check it out and leave feedback. It's definitely still a work in
progress though.
The URL is http://www.ryanloewe.com
If you go there, please take a second to leave a comment. It doesn't
have to be anything profound, just something to indicate you've been by.
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| I haven't updated this thing in a long time. I haven't really been compelled to. So why am I writing this post? Err...I don't really know.
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| More than ever before I feel that I have been allowed to look through American liberal's eyes and see conservatives as they do. This must largely be credited to Hollywood. V for Vendetta is no exception when it comes to films that have an agenda far greater than to merely entertain. There is a message being preached here and it will be applauded by liberals, and it is sure to become a patron saint in the hearts of those who consider themselves forward thinkers. The problem arises when one considers just what in the world forward thinking means in a time when definition and meaning are more convoluted and subjective than ever.
If you want to know the artistic credibility of this film there are numerous sources in which to find out if this film is good or not. My brief opinion is that this is quality cinima. There are some striking performances, Hugo Weaving suprised me greatly as V, far surpassing his supporting roles in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Matrix. Natalie Portman also puts on a stellar performance. After seeing Natalie Portman in the Star Wars prequels this is pure gold.
The original V was a graphic novel (to some this will appear as just a comic book, but don't call graphic novels comic books unless you want to severely offend some ner...er, distinguished graphical literary experts) written in the 80's by Alan Moore. It was written largely as a reaction to Margaret Thatchers administration. Throughout the 80s she was the Prime Minister of the UK, and also the leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
I have never read the original V but there are already comparisons readily available on the internet. Entertainment megasite IGN has a really well written and unbiased comparison of the two. The Wachowski brothers took some obvious artistic liberties as there are quite a few differences. Alan Moore has actually completely dissasociated himself from the project because he had no hand in the shaping of the film. Where the graphic novel today would read more as a general statement against large governments and their pliable subjects who refuse to stand in opposition, the film has been reshaped to preach a more specific sermon that is relevant to today's political sitation. Some may walk away from the film still feeling it's message was general, but if they paid any attention it is a direct attack at the Bush administration and conservativism as it is today.
Apparently conservatives are fascist monsters in the eyes of liberal Hollywood. They are quashers of freedom of speech and wish that anyone who is not a white Christian be put away, even executed. I must say this is some of the most brilliant propaganda I have ever witnessed. It doesn't matter what your political or moral stance is, you hate the government in the film. It's despicable. The artifice here is that if you are one to speak up against something that is "different", such as the homosexual lifestyle, you are considered no better than the fascist totalitarian government depicted in the film. In fact homosexuality was a forefront issue in this film. It depicted the government storming homes and even yanking homosexuals out of public places, black bags being placed over their heads, and throwing them into prisons strikingly similar to those Guantanamo Bay terrorist prisons that we'd see on the news incessantly.
Is this really the direction of conservative politics in America? Well I'm not the one to ask really. My knowledge of current political affairs is nil, so my opinion means little. But I would say that is a rather drastic claim. Seeing as in some countries and Canadian provinces it is already a C misdemeanor, a hate crime, to say anything negative about homosexuality, political ideals are only going to continue in a liberal direction. It could just as equally be said that those who oppose what liberals deem "forward thinking" could be the ones in the position of getting the black bags pulled over their heads one day.
I believe the bottomline and message is that the ideals of Ameican Evangelicals and conservatives, as they are seen by most to go hand in hand, if allowed to continue to dominate the country will eventually lead from its current state to a form of Hitlerian Naziism. That moral extremity is nothing but narrow mindedness that will lead to new holocausts, based not on race but sexual preference.
George Clooney at the Oscars made the point that The Academy has always been a forerunner in this country for forward thinking. He points out that when black people still had to sit in the back of theaters, they gave an award to a black actress. A recurring idea arises here. In the same way that you would be equated to the political monsters in the film if you oppose homosexuality, your opposition is also equated to the same narrow mindedness of white racist Americans who made sure that black Americans were oppressed and given different rights.
It seems that liberals are the only ones alowed "authorship" of forward thinking because they are the only ones being allowed to define and manipulate it. Suddenly it's narrow minded white Christians that were responsible for the opression of black individuals and heroic, forward thinking Hollywood had the valiant audacity to give out an award to a black woman in a time racism was at it's pique. So it's also white Christian conservatives that are toruring and oppressing homosexuals and Hollywood is again, more than anyone else, trying to be forerunners in the fight for the freedom of homosexuals. The proposition here is that one day we will all realize how narrow minded it was to oppose homosexuality, and we will feel foolish for being just like those racist opressors, realizing our convictions were just home-bred fabrications purposed to make us feel better about dissaproving of something that made us uncomfortable.
Brilliant propaganda. Brilliant, because there is no real comparison between the two issues yet it is a proposition successfully invading the minds of Americans.
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| Over 15 movies since I've been sick...
I have no life...
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| Random Old Lady: "Alfred? ...You've been dead for 15 years!"
Alfred: "Frankly my dear," grabs her and swoops her down going in for a kiss "I don't give a damn!"
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