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 and his companions Did the scheme contrive, To blow the King and Parliament All up alive. Threescore barrels, laid below, To prove old England's overthrow. But, by God's providence, him they catch, With a dark lantern, lighting a match! A stick and a stake For King James's sake! If you won't give me one, I'll take two, The better for me, And the worse for you. A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope, A penn'orth of cheese to choke him, A pint of beer to wash it down, And a jolly good fire to burn him. Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring! Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King! Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
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I never knew the whole poem. Thanks! Learned the first line from V for Vendetta. Need to get the graphic novel
Movie was pretty solid too. It's too bad the creator was a faggot that was projecting evil politics onto the opposition, which is now being revealed for the hypocrisy it is.
Yea I liked the movie but some parts seemed to be things the source material didn’t have
The morale of the source material is "england became dystopian because they've killed all gays in the holocaust camps and society can't be decent without them".
Really? It was focused on gays?
V for Vendetta is basically the coronavirus scam if it were conservatives using it as a pretext to seize power instead of what actually happened IRL.
Literally the plot is political party A creates a virus, uses it on their own population to instill fear, comes up with the cure (which they had beforehand) to get the populace to vote for them, and then once in power continue to use fear of war/disease/poverty/etc. as a pretext to enact Soviet level control of the populace.
The difference between the movie and IRL is that in the movie it was a right wing party, and the hero of the story is a lefty(?) who was experimented on who goes on a Kill Bill rampage of vengeance against those who wronged him. IRL it was the establishment who did it and no one has been punished.
The only real reference to lgbts is a short segment where V makes up a story about a lesbian who gets persecuted for being a lesbian as a motivation for the secondary protagonist.
Considering it was made by the Wachowskis it is surprisingly based if you ignore some of the very proto woke stuff.
I saw the movie a long time ago. Will look for the graphic novel
Moore is the epitome of why Death of the Author exists.
He creates pretty compelling stories with a lot of great and nuanced writing, but his own opinions on it and what you should take from it are so fucking awful that its mindnumbing.
I really enjoyed his Take on monsters as avengers. Not awake enough to remember the actual name or the movie with Sean Connery and an awesome car.
So many shows have been made like that. They never thought it would be them, or was them, in so many displays. It's hard to watch the 7th doctor because of it.
I just read James's book Demonicon, a study of demons. I do it every Halloween.
It's a pity that there's a slow banning of fireworks going on across the UK whether it's normal shops stocking rubbish fireworks or regions enacting harsher restrictions.
Guy Fawkes did nothing wrong!
Guy Fawkes night should also include burning the effigies of Islamic terrorists.
The last honest man to enter parliament, shame he was a catholic though.