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brendo November 5 2006, 08:49:23 UTC
Three seconds later, it became my wallpaper.

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fritters November 6 2006, 01:33:37 UTC
Wow.

New world record!

Flattered....

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brendo November 6 2006, 04:40:16 UTC
Have you read the Wikipedia article?

Alan Moore, however, distanced himself from the film sight unseen, as he has with every screen adaptation of his works to date. He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie.[9] After reading the script, Moore remarked that his comic had been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... This film is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives - which is not what the comic 'V for Vendetta' was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England." He later adds that if the Wachowskis had wanted to protest what was going on in America, then they should have used a political narrative that spoke directly at America's issues, similar to what Moore had done before with Britain.[10]

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fritters November 6 2006, 07:14:36 UTC
I'd scanned it, but never seen all that, no. Even with the double-crosses thing in the film, though, I never likened it to Bush simply because I read the book and knew better.

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thatsnakegirl November 5 2006, 12:10:37 UTC
Very subtle, the poem, but I love it!

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fritters November 5 2006, 19:20:03 UTC
Thank you! I wanted to "celebrate" the holiday ^_^ We're watching it tonight and the mask is in the front window

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thatsnakegirl November 5 2006, 21:53:31 UTC
I'm hoping to get a few friends to buy masks for next Halloween. I'm planning ahead, because throwing things together last minute didn't work out so well this year. lol.

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milesaroo November 5 2006, 13:13:21 UTC
Woooo!! :D

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fritters November 5 2006, 19:21:33 UTC
I'm amazed you didn't beat me to posting about it, you little welsh hooligan! That's one of the reasons I stayed up and posted it at midnight!

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ellonwye November 5 2006, 15:00:15 UTC
It's.. really, really weird to see practically our only national holiday becoming popular in other countries.

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thudpucker November 5 2006, 17:52:07 UTC


Now here's the interesting thing, though.

England has always celebrated November 5th because Fawkes failed.

But November 5th is starting to be celebrated in other countries because Fawkes tried.

It's not a reaction to the English government, per se... it's a reaction to government grown too big for its britches. Period.

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da_pimpmasta November 5 2006, 23:06:55 UTC
Quoted for truth.

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fritters November 5 2006, 19:28:22 UTC
Blame it on Alan Moore. But yeah, that must be weird. For what it's worth, I don't know of anyone doing the traditional things you do, we just say "Woot! Gunpowder!" and get on with our day...

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asimovberlioz November 5 2006, 18:31:46 UTC
Penny for the Guy! (And yes, I do pronounce it to rhyme with "bee.")

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fritters November 5 2006, 19:39:29 UTC
Huh. That's the correct pronunciation, huh?

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