V for Vendetta

[GT40FIED]

See...there again, that's not what I came away with. I didn't really see V brainwashing anyone. Well, at least not nearly as bad as his government was. I saw him undoing what the illegitimate government had done. Teaching people to think for themselves and whatnot. As for seeking revenge no matter what, it seemed to me that he could've caused much more harm than he did. He really only killed the people who fucked his shit up.

I'd stop short of comparing Guy Fawkes with V. There's a lot of things not the same...namely that Guy Fawkes failed where V succeeded. That...and Guy Fawkes didn't work alone. He worked with a whole group of guys. November 5th is actually still a holiday in England. People set off fireworks and whatnot. I'm sure people have forgotten why they do it, but then again most Americans have forgotten why we celebrate the 4th of July.

[CD5Passion]

Originally Posted by GT40FIED

See...there again, that's not what I came away with. I didn't really see V brainwashing anyone. Well, at least not nearly as bad as his government was. I saw him undoing what the illegitimate government had done. Teaching people to think for themselves and whatnot. As for seeking revenge no matter what, it seemed to me that he could've caused much more harm than he did. He really only killed the people who fucked his shit up.

I'd stop short of comparing Guy Fawkes with V. There's a lot of things not the same...namely that Guy Fawkes failed where V succeeded. That...and Guy Fawkes didn't work alone. He worked with a whole group of guys. November 5th is actually still a holiday in England. People set off fireworks and whatnot. I'm sure people have forgotten why they do it, but then again most Americans have forgotten why we celebrate the 4th of July.

I guess it just depends on where you stand and what not. Personally I definatly felt what V did was right. and yes because he was faced with a psuedo-nazi government it was definatly a good deed. I'm just repeating what I read on some articles, which I found interesting. there are two sides of the stories.

and yeah as far as the Guy fawkes deal, true. it's just cool that the similarities are there. the original release date in Europe for this movie was slated for November 5th. but then the terrorist bombings in the underground occured and they pushed the release date ahha