"Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of November"

There are a few movies that I watch once a year but none that I watch on a SPECIFIC day of the year. November fifth is always the time for V For Vendetta, the fantastic pro-freedom movie by the makers of the Matrix.

 

It is of course based on the same dystopian graphic novel by Alan Moore. Moore, famously, is not a fan of this movie version of his story but to me the motion picture is so much better than his often ponderous written word. That notwithstanding, V is the kind of vigilante who takes a great look and brilliant man to create. He is as uncompromising in his methods as is his society with their oppressive version of  their nationalist ideology.

I like to hope that if I lived in such a world that I would fight the good fight while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. I would also include the cape and Shakespearian way of speaking. It's the performer in me. So today is my one day that I wish I could take on the man single handed with 'just my knives and my 'fancy karate'.



I especially love V's final dance with death. It is so balletic and majestic. It's how every hero wants to die, with a smile on his face behind the mask.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know 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.
Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!