Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I can think of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;

By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

[LEFT][INDENT]Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday - I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.
[/INDENT][INDENT] There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
[/INDENT][INDENT] Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
[/INDENT][INDENT] I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
[/INDENT][INDENT] Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot![/INDENT][/LEFT]

V thread?

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

I would also like to say that V for Vendetta is one of my favorite films ever.

And I also think the film is FAR better than the comic.

It's one of my most favourite films, too, though I haven't read the comic.

Really I just like listening to Hugo Weaving speak. <3

Yeah, Hugo Weaving is perfect. Seeing him in other stuff (well, just LotR and Matrix) I never thought he was that great of an actor. But he sure as hell can convey a lot with just his voice and body language in VfV.

You must not have really been watching the matrix then. He did an outstanding job with the Agent Smith role.

Well I only really payed attention to the first one. I can't even remember anything about Revolutions and all I remember about Reloaded is a car chase and a kick *** Rob Dougan song during a sword fight.

Do you people even celebrate Guy Fawkes?

I'd actually imagine so considerig you seem to use anything as an excuse to set off some fireworks.

An American who doesn't like explosions is not an American worth having.

word

The movie made V into a uninteresting one-dimensional character. Lame.

"McCain, McCain, 'twas his intent
to take over as king in the crony-a-ment.
With Musgrave and measures like two-score-and-eight
poor old freedom to devastate."

I thought that Natalie Portman's character was the main character, honestly.

That's more true in the graphic novel. It's far more focused on her.
The comic was better, but the movie was awesome.

Just finished watching it

i love that movie.