Hollywood Hate-Rant (with added I hate Valentines Day)
A fanfiction author on this site has the name 'scarlet carsons'.
Whilst searching for her page on google, I quickly realized that it was a V for Vendetta reference.
Apparently the name of the rose mentioned in the film.
As an avid gardener and keen rose keeper, I thought I'd track the rose down out of curiosity.
Coronation Street is a pretty traditional soap opera in England, which has been going on for God alone knows how long. I can remember watching the soap as a child because I was allowed to stop up for an extra half-hour if I watched it quietly.
Back in the 60's, a character called Ena Sharples was part of the cast, played by a Violet Carsons. She was awarded the title of OBE, being an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and had a rose named after her, the Violet Carsons rose.
In the graphic novel version of V for Vendetta, the Violet Carsons rose is referred to. Obviously a reference to British cultural history.
Typically, Hollywood didn't like this real-life business. Perhaps the rose wasn't showy enough. The Violet Carson was axed and a fictitious 'Scarlet Carson' was made up and inserted into the film. The rose they used in the film was actually 'Grand Prix', the nastiest, most meaningless rose in existence.
I used to be a florist (until I grew tired of people's pomp and arrogance over trussed up bunches of severed plant reproductive organs), and around Valentines day we would sell hundreds of these pieces of unoriginal crap. It was the worst time of year to be a florist; roses, roses and more roses with thorns, thorns and more thorns. The worst part was thinking about how the repetitive 12 or 24 red-rose bouquets I'd spent the day getting cut to ribbons to make, were going to be used as sexual tokens.
The shittiest Valentines day gift I can think of is 12 of those dime-a-dozen (only not, because people are willing to pay stupid prices) nasty Grand Prix pieces of crap.
Whilst searching for her page on google, I quickly realized that it was a V for Vendetta reference.
Apparently the name of the rose mentioned in the film.
As an avid gardener and keen rose keeper, I thought I'd track the rose down out of curiosity.
Coronation Street is a pretty traditional soap opera in England, which has been going on for God alone knows how long. I can remember watching the soap as a child because I was allowed to stop up for an extra half-hour if I watched it quietly.
Back in the 60's, a character called Ena Sharples was part of the cast, played by a Violet Carsons. She was awarded the title of OBE, being an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and had a rose named after her, the Violet Carsons rose.
In the graphic novel version of V for Vendetta, the Violet Carsons rose is referred to. Obviously a reference to British cultural history.
Typically, Hollywood didn't like this real-life business. Perhaps the rose wasn't showy enough. The Violet Carson was axed and a fictitious 'Scarlet Carson' was made up and inserted into the film. The rose they used in the film was actually 'Grand Prix', the nastiest, most meaningless rose in existence.
I used to be a florist (until I grew tired of people's pomp and arrogance over trussed up bunches of severed plant reproductive organs), and around Valentines day we would sell hundreds of these pieces of unoriginal crap. It was the worst time of year to be a florist; roses, roses and more roses with thorns, thorns and more thorns. The worst part was thinking about how the repetitive 12 or 24 red-rose bouquets I'd spent the day getting cut to ribbons to make, were going to be used as sexual tokens.
The shittiest Valentines day gift I can think of is 12 of those dime-a-dozen (only not, because people are willing to pay stupid prices) nasty Grand Prix pieces of crap.