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Orwell and Hitler: V for Vendetta. "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November,
the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason ...
... like the betrayed revolution, where Orwell famously dealt in ... Now the film V for Vendetta
actually began on a ... One symbolic reference is the Hitler-like Sulter ...
Submitted by RighteousDiego on May 28, 2007
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"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot." V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue, opens with this quote, briefly describing the history of Guy Fawkes and his plan to overthrow a tyrannical government, a plan which the protagonist seems to follow in London some 400 years later. This film, while of course is meant to entertain as most films do, is also given the role of sending a message. It has been said by many unnamed sources that "a people should not fear their government, a government should fear their people." To agree or disagree is up to the individual. Agree or disagree, this film is a warning. A people should not let any one, be it any one person or any one group, become too powerful, for that only leads to the destruction of the very people who allowed it to happen.
Following the opening quote, there is a flashback to the arrest and subsequent execution of Guy Fawkes, with a voice-over describing that "you cannot love an idea," and that the narrator loved a man who stood for an idea, an idea identical, if not somewhat modernized, to that of Guy Fawkes, and that, because of him, she will always remember the Fifth of November.
There is then a cut to a close-up of a face speaking, explaining the issues of "the Former United States," with a zoom out showing a first-person point-of-view of someone putting on a Guy Fawkes mask, making a visual link between this faceless character and the original Guy Fawkes. While on a brief take of what is now clearly a television screen, we hear the man give the mantra "Strength through Unity; Unity through Faith;" a mantra which, as intended by the writers, can be easily compared to the mantra in 1984, by George Orwell: "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." V for Vendetta is filled to the brim with other literary and historical allusions. The posters with a stern image...
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