I love Guy Fawkes day.
Every year on the fifth of November, we go to the bonfire in Higham on the Hill, and then come home and watch V for Vendetta.
V has one of my favourite movie speeches of all time. I practically look forward to it all year :-) That's an overstatement. This is a very brilliant piece of script :-) ;
V: "But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
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 by-gone 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.
[carves "V" into poster on wall]
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.
[giggles]
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 love films about revolutions. I wonder why that is... I also adore Stephen fry, so that makes this film even better :-)
Happy Guy Fox Day everyone!
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