Remember, remember the fifth of November. The gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

It’s the rhyme of Guy Fawkes day, and a line for the socio-anarchists out there. V For Vendetta, meanwhile, is a movie for the socio-anarchists and comic book fans out there.

A Strange Origin

Now, a lot of you probably already know that the V For Vendetta movie grew from the comic book, but you might not have known that the original idea behind the comic book was to create a transsexual terrorist comic book character.

I know, freaky, but when you think about those Guy Fawkes masks, well, they do a pretty good job of hiding anybody’s features, so V could have been literally anybody.

A British Export

One for the “even more interesting” column is that the original V For Vendetta got its start in an early eighties British black-and-white comic called Warrior. Which is probably why it’s set over there and everything happens over there and you keep hearing only vague references to America as basically a complete wreck.

The Movie Itself

So you probably came here to get an opinion on the movie, and I will not disappoint. I liked V For Vendetta–seriously, I did. There was plenty of action mixed in with a whole lot of social themes, and you can’t help but like V as a guy who knew what he wanted to see–who knew what he wanted to see in others–and was willing to go to whatever lengths it took to get there. There’s something to admire in that.

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