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"What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television... I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us!" I've experienced this myself in Egypt during the 2011 revolution. It's amazing how all dictatorships are the same, no matter when or where
@Geek why do your friends now only go after people standing up for free speech, standing against the establishment? They seem to have become extremely partisan
Hi Biss, V was played by Hugo Weaving, he was also an "elf" in Lord of the Rings, "Agent Smith" in Matrix and "Red Skull" in Captain America. Natalie Portman played in Leon, Star Wars and Black Swan. She wasn't in Pirates of the Caribbean, "Elizabeth" played by Keira Knightley
To add more, Natalie Portman was cast as Padme in Star Wars and Keira Knightly was cast as Sabe her handmaiden and in-movie body double as they both looked very similar at the time. So Biss confusing them in this movie is completely understandable!
in Fairness in Star wars both Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman where bodyguard and queen and was meant to look the same. I even heard one of them said their family was on set for one of the days and went up to the wrong person thinking it was their child when it was the other actress. So it is an easy mistake to make with the two of those actresses
i´m a bit said she didn´t get it but am still happy tat she featured it here. maybe some very young people didn´d know the movie before and now love it :)
@@YoYo-bx8wu Yeah, that right there tells me not to watch the reaction. I love hearing commentary and thoughts from reactors, but I wish they'd pause the movie or skip back a few seconds in order to actually "get" everything. The amount of people who just talk right over important plot points, even as they ask about that specific plot point, is quite annoying.
@LethalOwl I loved her reaction, besides she's not from the US, she's not gonna get every reference like the tea Party and stuff like that but still a very good video anyways, you are all free to do what we want
You did see his face. His face was the face of all those rising up against tyranny. When you said that his torture methods are how you make soldiers, it is in fact how you make revolutionaries. I love this movie and the message it depicts.
Portman got her break playing Mathilda in Leon: The Professional. She didn't play in Pirates of the Carribbean - that was Keira Knightley (Portman played Padme in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, where Keira Knightley played one of her handmaiden decoys).
Violence is an action. Context and intent make it good or bad. Capturing a criminal may well require violence. Defending yourself against violence usually requires violence. Justice can be violent.
'When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you are using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.'
This movie was important to creating my view of the world. The purpose of government is to help us live together, but so often the politics behind shaping it ends up tearing us apart. It is an important lesson that we should all keep in mind when we interact with other people.
@@dre3k78 No, it doesn’t matter, people don’t deserve to live under a corrupt system that exploits them and their suffering for its own gain. Just because people have other things on their mind, things they consider important, like surviving and trying to avoid homelessness or raising their kids while working two jobs, is no reason for them to suffer. I get what you’re saying, there are those that just don’t care and do not vote, but that’s no excuse to say they all deserve it. That saying is one without empathy or understanding. No one deserves to live a shitty life just because they have no interest in the candidates, many think their vote won’t matter, exactly because it’s so corrupt. That doesn’t make it okay, and makes it seem like you have given up just as they have. If we all deserve it, what’s the point in trying to make it better? Guess we just live with it and say fuck it.
The newsroom monologue is one of my personal favorite monologues. Personal favorite movie: The Crow. Based off a comic, dark, gritty, funny, and the most fire soundtrack ever.
Natalie Portman is an outstanding actress. She's great in everything she does. She deserves bonus points for surviving the horrible dialogue she had to spew in her Star Wars films.
Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici was not from Faust. That was a misdirect. "I, with Truth, have conquered the Universe while living" was the Master of the Temple motto of Aleister Crowley and the graphic novelist who created V worked with Thelema, Crowley's spiritual path. The Count of Monte Cristo gives a parallel that helps understand this particular story. This motto of five Vs is linked to the Guy Fawkes fifth of November and November is the 11th month with 11 being a basic number of Magick in Crowley's system. Another message of this story, aside from the power of truth, is that we can only teach in the way that we have learned.
The Finger/Fingermen are secret police. The comic makes it more obvious than the film - the government has departments named after body parts. The Head (leadership), The Hand (lawmakers and high-level government), The Finger (secret police), The Eye and the Ear (surveillance dicisions), The Nose (police) and The Mouth (news and propaganda).
I still find it funny that the chancellor character (the big head on the tv) was Played by John Hurt, back in the day play the main character in 1984 film based on the same book. And that is a book everyone should read, where the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" comes from..lol
For me it gets 5 stars.. but perhaps I am influenced by having read George Orwell's 1984 that inspired Alan Moore's graphic novel V For Vendetta. The book is a very dystopian future United Kingdom that Orwell predicted in 1948 that had some very prescient ideas about the future. The graphic novel is much more anarchic - Moore relished the downfall of society. This film has the plot of the graphic novel but the tone is closer to the book in many ways. As a whodunit it is predictable, but that isn't what it's about. The subtexts about power, manipulation and control and what can be done about it are what is important - in my humble opinion.
Dude She's from Romania. Read up on Ceaucescu. Everything you got from fictional books and this movie, her family experienced with 10x more intensely in real life. For you this is a fantasy. For her family it's reality, that's why she was not impressed by this move.
@@Metal0sopher She wasn't born when he died. For me it's turning into reality all around me. Granted, we aren't quite there yet but it still feels very prescient to me.
There was a King who had everything a man could strive for. His achievements were many and his failures were few. There were grandiose stories, documenting his many glories. But none as somber as the one I tell you now. His kingdom was vast, reaching from sea to sea. They called him a conqueror, a liberator and even a god to be. He charged into every battle, fearless and ruthless, never fleeing and always victorious. His wife of many years had given him three sons to carry on his name. The people would chant 'long live the king' and may his dynasty forever reign. This King did things no one thought possible, amassing great riches and fame across the nation. No army, no castle, no man stood a chance against him. Until he came across the simple river in the woodlands. This river did not care for his titles, his might or his status. And despite his best efforts, the river opposed him. The King had no reason to cross the river other than pride, but that was enough for him to become crazed in the eye. He braved the fiercest storms and survived the most vicious battles, but this river somehow stopped him. His servants could hear him cry out in the night. Angel, angel what have I done? I've faced the quakes, the wind, the fire. I've conquered country, crown and throne. Why can't I cross this river?. Whispers began to spread of the king, people joked that a mere body of water had bested their mighty ruler. He grew obsessed with that river, driven to cross it at any and all costs. He had his builders build a bridge, but the river took it down. He had his soldiers brave the current, but all were lost and drowned. He had his priests pray for God's assistance, but none was ever given. Each time, they were repelled by the river and with every attempt, the king grew more agitated. He had his learned friends research the history of the river, but they found nothing of note. It was a simple river, nothing more, they urged. The King's sons constantly squabbled over the throne that would one day be theirs and saw the river as an opportunity to win their father's favor. The eldest son was the bravest and he stepped boldly into the current, but his valor could not save his life from the raging water. The middle son was intelligent and built a contraption to get across, but it failed and he was washed away with his creation. The youngest was lazy and had the river filled with boulders, but they gave way as soon as he stepped upon them. The King's three sons perished in that water and it was too much for the queen to bear, so on the night of the final funeral, she threw herself into the river. The King's obsession with the river only worsened as he drained his kingdom of all its resources in an effort to find a way to the other side. His people started to turn against him as his sanity unraveled. Those most loyal assured they'd think no less of him if he were to give up this foolhardy pursuit. But he continued to refuse. A fortnight after his wife had thrown away her life, the kingdom was gathered on the bank as the King proclaimed he would cross it himself, ordering no one to come to his aide. He believed the river to be alive and that it was testing his resolve . And on the morning of that fateful day, he was ready to risk it all. But as he prepared for the dangerous trek, a peasant girl slipped and fell in. She gripped onto a rock as the river fought hard to pull her all the way in. She cried and she screamed, but the King remained still, uncaring for her young life. But then a boy in rags stepped forward, calling out for the girl who he named his sister. He tried jumping in, but was grabbed by a soldier and told he would perish, but the boy kept trying to get to her. 'If I am to die then I will die, but I will not stand idly by,' the boy boldly proclaimed. And so he dove in, that peasant boy with no name. The crowd watched in awe as he arose from the thunderous current, his feet gripping the muck that lie beneath the surface. With all his strength, he pulled himself across and snatched his sister from the slippery wet rocks. When they made it to the other side, the King shouted witchcraft and demanded that the boy must die. His archers looked around, but did not raise their bows. He shouted and shouted, but no one did as they were told. The King was alone, feeling betrayed. And in a fit of rage, he jumped into the river, following that peasant boy with no name. He thrashed around & grunted as he pushed his way across, but just as he reached the other side, he met the young boy's gaze. The boy reached out to give the King a hand, the King who had just demanded his life. The angry King scoffed and pushed him away, grabbing a nearby tree branch to haul himself onto the river bank. The branch, well it snapped and the river sucked him back in. The crowd let out a gasp, but not a single one jumped in. As the water pushed the King beneath its waves and he took his final breath, he dwelled on all that he had lost in the recent past. His crown, his people, his wealth and his lands. His kingdom, his family and his legacy with them. This river had taken his mind and on that fateful day, the river would claim his life. And as he sank below the raging current, he saw one final sight... That peasant boy with no name and his sister by his side. Now they tell stories about that river and the nameless boy who dared to cross it. They sing of a king who was once called great, but the river in the woodlands had stolen all he attained. To this day, only those of pure heart can cross the humbling river, all others will be swept away.
26:51 "Is it _meaningless_ to apologize?" Okay. Here's a point in _this_ movie that makes me misty. Dr. Surridge sees death coming. You could _almost_ say she's literally staring into its _face._ How does she respond? Is there fear? Does she _prostrate_ herself in an effort to illicit sympathy and plead with him to be _spared?_ No. Is there indignation, where she presumes to argue that the experiments she was part of were, in some way, _justified?_ No. She _apologizes._ She expresses _remorse._ She _admits_ what she has done, recognizes that it was _without_ justification and she _apologizes._
The first time I watched this movie I was 7 and I did NOT get it, predictably. But now that I'm older and have seen it more recently, it's become one of my favorite movies. Every few years on November 5th now me and my dad watch this together, usually with a pizza and something yummy to drink. Valerie's retelling of her life always gets a few tears from me; it did even the first time I watched it as a kid.
Sometimes movies change the world. By spreading ideas. This and the Matrix are very good examples of that.. and you know what V said "Ideas are bulletproof" ;)
I could watch this film many times and yet don't get tired of it, then amount of things that the film shows as future situations, and how they are still happening, it's just amazing.
They did experiments on him. Yes. They used a medical term. He lost the ability to feel pain. So V can function normally until his heart stops pumping or his lungs fill up with blood. He's immune to pain. Everybody dies of shock. He dies of hemorrhagic shock. Loss of blood. Septic shock wont have time to set in (death by infection). Neurological shock is his immunity. In a way, you could say he retained his higher brain functions but lost some of the more primitive reactions. Which made him the perfect test subject. He couldn't feel when his body was being hurt. That's exactly what the government needed. A lethal disease that a subject couldn't feel until it was to late. More blood samples!
It takes place somewhere between 2025-2028 or 2034-2038. Someone did a very in depth analysis of the film, picking up on when dates were mentioned or shown. And the Fingermen are the Secret Police.
Stockholm syndrome would have her in love with Creedy, the person she thought was holding her, not V. V granted her 1 wish by making her strong like her parents.
Hi BissCute. The 5th November references are to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The plot was to blow up the Houses of Parliament on the State Opening of Parliament That's an occasion when not only every member of Parliament is present but the king and most of the royal family is present. The plot was by a small group of Catholic rebels. At the time Catholics in England were discriminated against. Their idea was to destroy the entire English ruling class in one stroke and then to lead a Catholic uprising and take over England. However the plot was discovered on November 5th when the one of the plotters called Guy Fawkes was discovered under parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder. Ever since the foiling of the plot November 5th has been celebrated in Britain with bonfires and fireworks. The night is sometimes called Guy Fawkes Night. However I should point out that Guy Fawkes wasn't actually the leader of the plot. Tge leader was a man called Robert Catesby. An interesting fact is that Catesby was an ancestor of the actor Kit Harrington who most people know as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. Harrington actually starred in a series called Gunpowder where he played his ancestor
By the way, Larkhill is an English Army Base on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge. Home of the Royal Artillery Training (officially). I planted Oak trees around there many years ago. However, there used to be way more security around the place than was necessary for an Army training facility, so there were often rumours about what really went on there. Considering it wasn't that far from another secret base, Porton Down, that was infamous for its experiments in Chemical and biological warfare. I think that may have been part of the reasoning for setting this fictional experimental facility there
The "Fingermen" in this movie were a sort of political secret police organization, like the old East German "Stasi." They would make their victims disappear.
This movie has some stellar actors: Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Leon, Garden State, Beautiful Girls, Thor), John Hurt (Alien, 1984, Space Balls, Harry Potter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Matrix, Captain America), and the incomparable Stephen Fry (A Fish Called Wanda, I.Q., Black Adder, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, host of Qi). -Celluloid is a highly combustible type of film that was used for older movies; in 1937 there was a massive fire in Fox's film vault destroying most movies made before that (that's why it's so rare to see older movies), another in 1965 at MGM's vault but they'd copied a lot of their older movies, so most but not all survived. Over the last 15-20 years theaters have been switching to digital, so celluloid is rare. -Fingers are what they're calling that gov'ts agents... like the fingers of the gov't hand.
4:27 V: "I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a _masked_ man who he _is."_ Westley: "I once had occasion to explain _exactly_ that to _Inigo."_
@@smavtmb2196 Since when was Trump my president? God you Americans .... Completely oblivious or just simply ignorant/ arrogant to think there isnt an entire world besides the US.
@@michadegraaf4570 So either you don't live in north America or you are a delusional Maga nut. If your Maga you prefer right wing conspiracy theories to actual facts or even objective reality.
There are some details you missed that would help explain some of the parts that confused you. You did catch that V was Evie's captor faster than most people though so kudos for that. It's worthwhile to watch it again. You can catch stuff you might have missed. Oh, in the part where V was shot up...note that he is stronger than the average person. That combined with the steel plate makes that scene a bit easier to understand. Also note that movies tend to overplay how much impact a bullet has. Honestly, the portrayal here is probably more accurate than most movies. Finally, the message at the end, "He was all of us." No revolution occurs because of one person. V was the personification of all the people who made it happen.
Love the political message of the film. I didn't skim through the comments so maybe this has already been mentions, but its from the wachowskis, creators of the matrix, and hugo weaving is V
This movie is a top 20 non animated movie for me, maybe top 10 as well. Hugo Weaving is exceptional as V. I'm very intrigued by the notion that V might be Valerie, since the experimentation at the facility was apparently hormone therapy.
I think my favorite thing about your videos is how much you love breakfast food like coffee and bacon and eggs and toast. I eat all of those every morning, it's such a nice time.
This is the first time I've seen a reaction to V for Vendetta by someone from a country that has had a revolution fairly recently, so it's not surprising that it didn't affect you much. The gunpowder plot was over 400 years ago, but we still celebrate its failure on the 5th November by lighting bonfires, setting off fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes.
All sentient creatures crave freedom. Once a sentient creature sees what freedom looks like, it will fight for freedom. If it doesn't, it will lose any freedom it has. We choose through our actions which future we experience, if we take no action, we will experience no future. This is the idea that V was communicating.
I realize this video is a month ago, but one thing regarding the scene near the end. He was completely burned, all the nerve endings in his skin are no more, so he didn't feel the impact of the bullets, but as you can see in the scene that follows, it clearly did impact him. Just in the moment it's not a problem to get shot.
Hello Biss, just curious if you have watched the TV series Firefly? Came out in early 2000's and is only 14 episodes plus a movie. It has a huge cult following.
I love the moment when, I assume, you have the idea of "Big Ben goes big bang" and you smile and laugh. And then you laugh again after you say it. Adorable!
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Top 3 for me, with Memento and Gattaca being up there. 10/10
I feel you're a little too analytical you said he shouldn't have survived the scene near the end where he got shot multiple times you're right in reality but films are what dreams are made of.
Hello Miss Bisscute !!! This one is worth the watch I can't wait to watch your mind work on this one !!! Should be Great fun 😊😎 As Always the like button 🔘 has been Illuminated 😁
As Always Miss Bisscute You Don't Disappoint other then the One Jump scare with V & Mr Creepy 🤪🥴 Still your Deduction And Mind definitely worked well on this one Yet i still was thinking the Twists would Rate Higher then A 3 still it's your rating & I would Never pressure your thoughts !!! Well done and Look forward to your next interpretation & Review !! 😎 Note it was the Gloves that you saw , It was the Voice for Me 🌞
Not as popular movie as this, but I suggest you to watch *Equilibrium* (2002) It touches the same subject on society control but it's more action packed.
This movie saddens me. As much as I love it, it saddens me. Cos where it should be lighting a fire in the bellies of all the people and waking them up to what is going on (and has been for decades), it is merely being viewed, written off, and forgotten as just one more piece of cinematic entertainment, and the message is being completely lost, or worse, ignored.
The "Fingers" would be the "secret police", or more accurately the "police you use when you want people to go away without questions" instead of the "normal police".
Your English vocabulary is so so good. I swear I know Americans who have a more limited vocabulary. Accent is great too, no need to try to sound British/American, when you roll R's like that.
Maybe the nineties? Lol. It was supposed to be 200V. He said at the beginning it was 400 years and time for some payback. So the Night was the Vth (5th) of Novembe in the year 160V (1605). So 400 years on from 160V is 200V.
Asking a catholic priest "what do you need younger for" is kinda like asking a politician "why you need a lawyer for"... Crimes are about to happen, plain and simple...
easily in the top 5 best movies of all time, probably even in the top3. epic movie!!! i didn´t know why you thought it will be a mystery movie. a bit sad thay you only gave it a 3/5. i would give it a 6/5 ^^ besides fight club one of the best lifechanging movies that are still relevant even many years after their release and they will be in the decades to come.
That one dude who keeps turning up on the jumbotrons is John Hurt, who was in another dystopian future movie called MCMLXXXIV (NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR), released in 1984. Between this film and V For Vendetta, it's as if we were WARNED of all the despotic crap coming our way. Oh wait... we WERE.
I think this young woman is a really good reactor, but it infuriates me people are already living in fear, even if they don't know it. I can't even imagine being scared to say killed, or dead; and I absolutely hate that ridiculous word they use
31:16 This was a miscalculation on Mr. Deitrich's part, and a very _curious_ one. As long as he's been working with the British Government, he should've _known_ better.
This is not a good example of stockholm syndrome, the specifics of her captivity and the dynamics of interaction are wrong, in order for it to be stockholm she would of needed to have known it was V during her imprisonment because prior to that she was not captive in his home.
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I just love the fact they got John Hurt, who played victim of dictatorship in film 1984 to do dictator role for this. That man was pure talent.
Oh no, not again! ... Change my order to the soup!
The War Doctor, and Mr. Ollivander. I always enjoy hearing his voice. RIP.
Now he is big brother
"What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television... I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us!"
I've experienced this myself in Egypt during the 2011 revolution. It's amazing how all dictatorships are the same, no matter when or where
Not only dictatorships, sadly. Same tactics used in western "democracies"
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The crazy thing is that it works every time on most people
@@MrMpa31 These are tactics used in every country in the world.
@Geek why do your friends now only go after people standing up for free speech, standing against the establishment? They seem to have become extremely partisan
Everything but the internet?
"Equilibrium" is also a good movie about dictatorship in a modern fictional world, starring great actor Christian Bale
Agreed. Great movie 👍
All dystopian movies , now make sense , elysium is also good , the giver is also good
Hi Biss, V was played by Hugo Weaving, he was also an "elf" in Lord of the Rings, "Agent Smith" in Matrix and "Red Skull" in Captain America.
Natalie Portman played in Leon, Star Wars and Black Swan. She wasn't in Pirates of the Caribbean, "Elizabeth" played by Keira Knightley
An elf. He was the King of the elves 😅
To add more, Natalie Portman was cast as Padme in Star Wars and Keira Knightly was cast as Sabe her handmaiden and in-movie body double as they both looked very similar at the time. So Biss confusing them in this movie is completely understandable!
in Fairness in Star wars both Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman where bodyguard and queen and was meant to look the same. I even heard one of them said their family was on set for one of the days and went up to the wrong person thinking it was their child when it was the other actress. So it is an easy mistake to make with the two of those actresses
@@jasonregister3494 I didn't want to tell the specifics because she maybe hasn't seen those movies :)
Hugo Weaving also played as MEGATRON
I don't blame u for not getting it, I've seen English speaking ppl not understand its message, but this movie is phenomenal to say the very least❤❤❤❤
i´m a bit said she didn´t get it but am still happy tat she featured it here. maybe some very young people didn´d know the movie before and now love it :)
She spoke over the dialogues bruh..
@@YoYo-bx8wu Yeah, that right there tells me not to watch the reaction. I love hearing commentary and thoughts from reactors, but I wish they'd pause the movie or skip back a few seconds in order to actually "get" everything. The amount of people who just talk right over important plot points, even as they ask about that specific plot point, is quite annoying.
@@LethalOwl OMG! Yes! Exactly!
@LethalOwl I loved her reaction, besides she's not from the US, she's not gonna get every reference like the tea Party and stuff like that but still a very good video anyways, you are all free to do what we want
You did see his face. His face was the face of all those rising up against tyranny. When you said that his torture methods are how you make soldiers, it is in fact how you make revolutionaries. I love this movie and the message it depicts.
If you haven't already. Read the novel, you'll love it
Portman got her break playing Mathilda in Leon: The Professional. She didn't play in Pirates of the Carribbean - that was Keira Knightley (Portman played Padme in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, where Keira Knightley played one of her handmaiden decoys).
Alan Moore is a creative genius. He created From Hell, Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and of course V for Vendetta.
Great graphic novels.
what?! i didn´t know that watchmen and v for vendetta were created by the same guy?! 0_0 that´s epic! the movies are some of my favourites
@@Zireael83 He also wrote Batman: The Killing Joke.
And Miracleman
Your reaction was both truthful and horrifically cute: "they unalived him".
I thought her reaction was predictable
A lot of people use that phrase to avoid being marked by RUclips's algorithm.
That isn't cute, that's being forced to use non-words like "unalived him" instead of "killed him" to avoid the ridiculous RUclips censorship.
Violence is an action. Context and intent make it good or bad. Capturing a criminal may well require violence. Defending yourself against violence usually requires violence. Justice can be violent.
'When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you are using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.'
This movie was important to creating my view of the world. The purpose of government is to help us live together, but so often the politics behind shaping it ends up tearing us apart. It is an important lesson that we should all keep in mind when we interact with other people.
same
Like the saying goes..."You get the government you deserve."
@@dre3k78 That’s a terrible saying.
@@CChissel How? If the majority of people don't care about the candidates, the process or even want to get involved they get what they deserve.
@@dre3k78 No, it doesn’t matter, people don’t deserve to live under a corrupt system that exploits them and their suffering for its own gain. Just because people have other things on their mind, things they consider important, like surviving and trying to avoid homelessness or raising their kids while working two jobs, is no reason for them to suffer. I get what you’re saying, there are those that just don’t care and do not vote, but that’s no excuse to say they all deserve it. That saying is one without empathy or understanding. No one deserves to live a shitty life just because they have no interest in the candidates, many think their vote won’t matter, exactly because it’s so corrupt. That doesn’t make it okay, and makes it seem like you have given up just as they have. If we all deserve it, what’s the point in trying to make it better? Guess we just live with it and say fuck it.
The newsroom monologue is one of my personal favorite monologues. Personal favorite movie: The Crow. Based off a comic, dark, gritty, funny, and the most fire soundtrack ever.
the crow is nice! :)
One of my favorites.
Natalie Portman is an outstanding actress. She's great in everything she does.
She deserves bonus points for surviving the horrible dialogue she had to spew in her Star Wars films.
That is a pretty good line, IMO. Padme had some good lines, but she also had some really painful ones.
Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici was not from Faust. That was a misdirect. "I, with Truth, have conquered the Universe while living" was the Master of the Temple motto of Aleister Crowley and the graphic novelist who created V worked with Thelema, Crowley's spiritual path. The Count of Monte Cristo gives a parallel that helps understand this particular story. This motto of five Vs is linked to the Guy Fawkes fifth of November and November is the 11th month with 11 being a basic number of Magick in Crowley's system.
Another message of this story, aside from the power of truth, is that we can only teach in the way that we have learned.
CELLULOID = The synthetic plastic that "MOVIE & PICTURE FILM" is produced from. It was invented in the 1860's.
The Finger/Fingermen are secret police. The comic makes it more obvious than the film - the government has departments named after body parts. The Head (leadership), The Hand (lawmakers and high-level government), The Finger (secret police), The Eye and the Ear (surveillance dicisions), The Nose (police) and The Mouth (news and propaganda).
I still find it funny that the chancellor character (the big head on the tv) was Played by John Hurt, back in the day play the main character in 1984 film based on the same book. And that is a book everyone should read, where the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" comes from..lol
I just recently learned that V is the only letter in English that is never silent.
V is awesome... he has the cunning brilliance and cold resolve of a supervillain, but the honorable motives and antics of a superhero.
Very inspiring.
For me it gets 5 stars.. but perhaps I am influenced by having read George Orwell's 1984 that inspired Alan Moore's graphic novel V For Vendetta. The book is a very dystopian future United Kingdom that Orwell predicted in 1948 that had some very prescient ideas about the future. The graphic novel is much more anarchic - Moore relished the downfall of society. This film has the plot of the graphic novel but the tone is closer to the book in many ways. As a whodunit it is predictable, but that isn't what it's about. The subtexts about power, manipulation and control and what can be done about it are what is important - in my humble opinion.
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Dude She's from Romania. Read up on Ceaucescu. Everything you got from fictional books and this movie, her family experienced with 10x more intensely in real life. For you this is a fantasy. For her family it's reality, that's why she was not impressed by this move.
@@Metal0sopher She wasn't born when he died. For me it's turning into reality all around me. Granted, we aren't quite there yet but it still feels very prescient to me.
There was a King who had everything a man could strive for. His achievements were many and his failures were few. There were grandiose stories, documenting his many glories. But none as somber as the one I tell you now. His kingdom was vast, reaching from sea to sea. They called him a conqueror, a liberator and even a god to be. He charged into every battle, fearless and ruthless, never fleeing and always victorious. His wife of many years had given him three sons to carry on his name. The people would chant 'long live the king' and may his dynasty forever reign. This King did things no one thought possible, amassing great riches and fame across the nation. No army, no castle, no man stood a chance against him. Until he came across the simple river in the woodlands. This river did not care for his titles, his might or his status. And despite his best efforts, the river opposed him. The King had no reason to cross the river other than pride, but that was enough for him to become crazed in the eye. He braved the fiercest storms and survived the most vicious battles, but this river somehow stopped him. His servants could hear him cry out in the night. Angel, angel what have I done? I've faced the quakes, the wind, the fire. I've conquered country, crown and throne. Why can't I cross this river?. Whispers began to spread of the king, people joked that a mere body of water had bested their mighty ruler. He grew obsessed with that river, driven to cross it at any and all costs. He had his builders build a bridge, but the river took it down. He had his soldiers brave the current, but all were lost and drowned. He had his priests pray for God's assistance, but none was ever given. Each time, they were repelled by the river and with every attempt, the king grew more agitated. He had his learned friends research the history of the river, but they found nothing of note. It was a simple river, nothing more, they urged. The King's sons constantly squabbled over the throne that would one day be theirs and saw the river as an opportunity to win their father's favor. The eldest son was the bravest and he stepped boldly into the current, but his valor could not save his life from the raging water. The middle son was intelligent and built a contraption to get across, but it failed and he was washed away with his creation. The youngest was lazy and had the river filled with boulders, but they gave way as soon as he stepped upon them. The King's three sons perished in that water and it was too much for the queen to bear, so on the night of the final funeral, she threw herself into the river. The King's obsession with the river only worsened as he drained his kingdom of all its resources in an effort to find a way to the other side. His people started to turn against him as his sanity unraveled. Those most loyal assured they'd think no less of him if he were to give up this foolhardy pursuit. But he continued to refuse. A fortnight after his wife had thrown away her life, the kingdom was gathered on the bank as the King proclaimed he would cross it himself, ordering no one to come to his aide. He believed the river to be alive and that it was testing his resolve . And on the morning of that fateful day, he was ready to risk it all. But as he prepared for the dangerous trek, a peasant girl slipped and fell in. She gripped onto a rock as the river fought hard to pull her all the way in. She cried and she screamed, but the King remained still, uncaring for her young life. But then a boy in rags stepped forward, calling out for the girl who he named his sister. He tried jumping in, but was grabbed by a soldier and told he would perish, but the boy kept trying to get to her. 'If I am to die then I will die, but I will not stand idly by,' the boy boldly proclaimed. And so he dove in, that peasant boy with no name. The crowd watched in awe as he arose from the thunderous current, his feet gripping the muck that lie beneath the surface. With all his strength, he pulled himself across and snatched his sister from the slippery wet rocks. When they made it to the other side, the King shouted witchcraft and demanded that the boy must die. His archers looked around, but did not raise their bows. He shouted and shouted, but no one did as they were told. The King was alone, feeling betrayed. And in a fit of rage, he jumped into the river, following that peasant boy with no name. He thrashed around & grunted as he pushed his way across, but just as he reached the other side, he met the young boy's gaze. The boy reached out to give the King a hand, the King who had just demanded his life. The angry King scoffed and pushed him away, grabbing a nearby tree branch to haul himself onto the river bank. The branch, well it snapped and the river sucked him back in. The crowd let out a gasp, but not a single one jumped in. As the water pushed the King beneath its waves and he took his final breath, he dwelled on all that he had lost in the recent past. His crown, his people, his wealth and his lands. His kingdom, his family and his legacy with them. This river had taken his mind and on that fateful day, the river would claim his life. And as he sank below the raging current, he saw one final sight... That peasant boy with no name and his sister by his side. Now they tell stories about that river and the nameless boy who dared to cross it. They sing of a king who was once called great, but the river in the woodlands had stolen all he attained. To this day, only those of pure heart can cross the humbling river, all others will be swept away.
26:51 "Is it _meaningless_ to apologize?"
Okay. Here's a point in _this_ movie that makes me misty. Dr. Surridge sees death coming. You could _almost_ say she's literally staring into its _face._ How does she respond?
Is there fear? Does she _prostrate_ herself in an effort to illicit sympathy and plead with him to be _spared?_ No.
Is there indignation, where she presumes to argue that the experiments she was part of were, in some way, _justified?_ No.
She _apologizes._ She expresses _remorse._ She _admits_ what she has done, recognizes that it was _without_ justification and she _apologizes._
The first time I watched this movie I was 7 and I did NOT get it, predictably. But now that I'm older and have seen it more recently, it's become one of my favorite movies. Every few years on November 5th now me and my dad watch this together, usually with a pizza and something yummy to drink. Valerie's retelling of her life always gets a few tears from me; it did even the first time I watched it as a kid.
There are multiple versions of Count of Monte Cristo and all of them are worth watching, so it won't much matter which you choose to watch!
Sometimes movies change the world. By spreading ideas. This and the Matrix are very good examples of that.. and you know what V said "Ideas are bulletproof" ;)
And Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
well said
The Wachowski don't get enough credit.
I could watch this film many times and yet don't get tired of it, then amount of things that the film shows as future situations, and how they are still happening, it's just amazing.
They did experiments on him. Yes. They used a medical term. He lost the ability to feel pain. So V can function normally until his heart stops pumping or his lungs fill up with blood. He's immune to pain. Everybody dies of shock. He dies of hemorrhagic shock. Loss of blood. Septic shock wont have time to set in (death by infection). Neurological shock is his immunity. In a way, you could say he retained his higher brain functions but lost some of the more primitive reactions. Which made him the perfect test subject. He couldn't feel when his body was being hurt. That's exactly what the government needed. A lethal disease that a subject couldn't feel until it was to late. More blood samples!
It takes place somewhere between 2025-2028 or 2034-2038. Someone did a very in depth analysis of the film, picking up on when dates were mentioned or shown.
And the Fingermen are the Secret Police.
Stockholm syndrome would have her in love with Creedy, the person she thought was holding her, not V.
V granted her 1 wish by making her strong like her parents.
Hi BissCute.
The 5th November references are to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The plot was to blow up the Houses of Parliament on the State Opening of Parliament
That's an occasion when not only every member of Parliament is present but the king and most of the royal family is present.
The plot was by a small group of Catholic rebels. At the time Catholics in England were discriminated against. Their idea was to destroy the entire English ruling class in one stroke and then to lead a Catholic uprising and take over England.
However the plot was discovered on November 5th when the one of the plotters called Guy Fawkes was discovered under parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder.
Ever since the foiling of the plot November 5th has been celebrated in Britain with bonfires and fireworks. The night is sometimes called Guy Fawkes Night.
However I should point out that Guy Fawkes wasn't actually the leader of the plot. Tge leader was a man called Robert Catesby.
An interesting fact is that Catesby was an ancestor of the actor Kit Harrington who most people know as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.
Harrington actually starred in a series called Gunpowder where he played his ancestor
By the way, Larkhill is an English Army Base on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge. Home of the Royal Artillery Training (officially). I planted Oak trees around there many years ago. However, there used to be way more security around the place than was necessary for an Army training facility, so there were often rumours about what really went on there. Considering it wasn't that far from another secret base, Porton Down, that was infamous for its experiments in Chemical and biological warfare. I think that may have been part of the reasoning for setting this fictional experimental facility there
“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
Sadly this movie is still relevant.
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While it's true that we should keep a close eye on what our governments are doing, one should not underestimate the general stupidity of the 'people'.
52:10 - The viral experiments on V gave him increased strength & endurance, as well as enhanced pain tolerance.
The "Fingermen" in this movie were a sort of political secret police organization, like the old East German "Stasi." They would make their victims disappear.
Oh for the love of God! It takes place in a dystopian future.
How long did it take You to recognize his poetic Voice ? Such a Great role.
He was offered just to play V's voice, but he's actually beneath the visage and rad.
This movie has some stellar actors: Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Leon, Garden State, Beautiful Girls, Thor), John Hurt (Alien, 1984, Space Balls, Harry Potter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Matrix, Captain America), and the incomparable Stephen Fry (A Fish Called Wanda, I.Q., Black Adder, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, host of Qi). -Celluloid is a highly combustible type of film that was used for older movies; in 1937 there was a massive fire in Fox's film vault destroying most movies made before that (that's why it's so rare to see older movies), another in 1965 at MGM's vault but they'd copied a lot of their older movies, so most but not all survived. Over the last 15-20 years theaters have been switching to digital, so celluloid is rare. -Fingers are what they're calling that gov'ts agents... like the fingers of the gov't hand.
4:27 V: "I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a _masked_ man who he _is."_
Westley: "I once had occasion to explain _exactly_ that to _Inigo."_
15:00 "Coffee is Life and Life is coffee." *lifts glass mug of coffee and drinks" What were you saying? I was enjoying my coffee..
This movie felt really relatable if you look at the past few years
Few years? More like last few centuries.
Hope you mean the Trump years.
@@smavtmb2196 Since when was Trump my president? God you Americans .... Completely oblivious or just simply ignorant/ arrogant to think there isnt an entire world besides the US.
@@smavtmb2196 And no, that wasn't what i meant
@@michadegraaf4570 So either you don't live in north America or you are a delusional Maga nut. If your Maga you prefer right wing conspiracy theories to actual facts or even objective reality.
There are some details you missed that would help explain some of the parts that confused you. You did catch that V was Evie's captor faster than most people though so kudos for that.
It's worthwhile to watch it again. You can catch stuff you might have missed.
Oh, in the part where V was shot up...note that he is stronger than the average person. That combined with the steel plate makes that scene a bit easier to understand. Also note that movies tend to overplay how much impact a bullet has. Honestly, the portrayal here is probably more accurate than most movies.
Finally, the message at the end, "He was all of us." No revolution occurs because of one person. V was the personification of all the people who made it happen.
I absolutely loved this movie. It was awesome.
if you see it as a movie, is an ok movie, if you see it as a social , political and mass psychology critique is fantastic.
Love the political message of the film. I didn't skim through the comments so maybe this has already been mentions, but its from the wachowskis, creators of the matrix, and hugo weaving is V
This movie is a top 20 non animated movie for me, maybe top 10 as well. Hugo Weaving is exceptional as V. I'm very intrigued by the notion that V might be Valerie, since the experimentation at the facility was apparently hormone therapy.
They actually did cut her hair Natalie Portman actually agreed to get her head shaved for the roll.
🎯yes ✨ Natalie, Portman and Hugo weaving🪴
I think my favorite thing about your videos is how much you love breakfast food like coffee and bacon and eggs and toast. I eat all of those every morning, it's such a nice time.
5 for Vendetta is a great movie
I'm glad no one took his mask off even after his death, this way, every citizen can identify with him.
BEST V JUMP SCARE EVER 43:10
Respect this film!
It's a piece of art and of Heart!
This is the first time I've seen a reaction to V for Vendetta by someone from a country that has had a revolution fairly recently, so it's not surprising that it didn't affect you much. The gunpowder plot was over 400 years ago, but we still celebrate its failure on the 5th November by lighting bonfires, setting off fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes.
"Hee hee hee hee he just broke his ass." One of my favorite reaction comments so far.
Mr. Creedy : Excuse me Chancellor, can I borrow your stick of chalk. 😂
It’s set in a possible future but the date is up to you some even say it’s now.
"Coffee is life and life is coffee" - Truer words have never been said ☕
V for Vendetta is the most artistic DC vertigo movie. V makes me imagine Spy Smasher, Sandman (Wesley Dodds) and Anarky on the big screen.
Remember, remember the 5th of November.
"I do like tea but coffee is life and life's coffee" - Biss, 2023
All sentient creatures crave freedom. Once a sentient creature sees what freedom looks like, it will fight for freedom. If it doesn't, it will lose any freedom it has. We choose through our actions which future we experience, if we take no action, we will experience no future. This is the idea that V was communicating.
i'm not easily scared, but your jump made ME jump lol
I realize this video is a month ago, but one thing regarding the scene near the end. He was completely burned, all the nerve endings in his skin are no more, so he didn't feel the impact of the bullets, but as you can see in the scene that follows, it clearly did impact him. Just in the moment it's not a problem to get shot.
Amazing. I watched this movie in the movie theater here in Brazil.
Hello Biss, just curious if you have watched the TV series Firefly? Came out in early 2000's and is only 14 episodes plus a movie. It has a huge cult following.
so sad that greedy stupid people with dollar signs in eyes but no brains did cancel it :(
I love the moment when, I assume, you have the idea of "Big Ben goes big bang" and you smile and laugh. And then you laugh again after you say it. Adorable!
Top 3 for me, with Memento and Gattaca being up there. 10/10
So cute how she says "unalive" instead of kill.
That is only because RUclips censors words like rape or dead or suicide. Trigger words for the professionally offended and triggered few.
I feel you're a little too analytical you said he shouldn't have survived the scene near the end where he got shot multiple times you're right in reality but films are what dreams are made of.
Hello Miss Bisscute !!! This one is worth the watch I can't wait to watch your mind work on this one !!! Should be Great fun 😊😎
As Always the like button 🔘 has been Illuminated 😁
As Always Miss Bisscute You Don't Disappoint other then the One Jump scare with V & Mr Creepy 🤪🥴 Still your Deduction And Mind definitely worked well on this one Yet i still was thinking the Twists would Rate Higher then A 3 still it's your rating & I would Never pressure your thoughts !!! Well done and Look forward to your next interpretation & Review !! 😎
Note it was the Gloves that you saw , It was the Voice for Me 🌞
The movie that predicted 2020 and 2021.
Not as popular movie as this, but I suggest you to watch *Equilibrium* (2002)
It touches the same subject on society control but it's more action packed.
Another amazing Natalie Portman movie to check out is Leon the Professional
V is also 5 in roman numerals. (november 5) 😉
And November is the only month with a V in it
This movie saddens me. As much as I love it, it saddens me. Cos where it should be lighting a fire in the bellies of all the people and waking them up to what is going on (and has been for decades), it is merely being viewed, written off, and forgotten as just one more piece of cinematic entertainment, and the message is being completely lost, or worse, ignored.
yes she is and V is played by Hugo Weaving!
The "Fingers" would be the "secret police", or more accurately the "police you use when you want people to go away without questions" instead of the "normal police".
The graphic novel was originally published in 1986, so, a bit older then the 2006 film.
39:09 This is likely where all the roses that Evey covered V's body with came from, if I had to take a guess.
Oh interesting
Count of Monte Cristo (2002 one)...
Your English vocabulary is so so good. I swear I know Americans who have a more limited vocabulary. Accent is great too, no need to try to sound British/American, when you roll R's like that.
You need to watch Tombstone.... great classic
I watch it before i think almost 2000 a year ago i already forget it haha!🙂 Hi miss bisscute...😍
"Big Ben goes Big Bang"
Hahahaa... you're adorable.
You literally are my favourite reactor! Well everyone loves fireworks😂😂 classic comment
27:44 "They're so weak and pathetic. I find myself hating them."
Because the _alternative_ was to hate _herself._
I gotta say, I love what the Romanian people did to their dictators...
Maybe the nineties? Lol. It was supposed to be 200V. He said at the beginning it was 400 years and time for some payback. So the Night was the Vth (5th) of Novembe in the year 160V (1605). So 400 years on from 160V is 200V.
While Weaving and Portman get just praise, I looove the dude who plays Creedy.
Asking a catholic priest "what do you need younger for" is kinda like asking a politician "why you need a lawyer for"... Crimes are about to happen, plain and simple...
Hype! Can't wait to watch this tomorrow at work.
Never say 'I am stupid" or anything negative about anyone else. Unless you want your reality to reflect that.
Be impeccable with your word.
easily in the top 5 best movies of all time, probably even in the top3. epic movie!!!
i didn´t know why you thought it will be a mystery movie. a bit sad thay you only gave it a 3/5. i would give it a 6/5 ^^
besides fight club one of the best lifechanging movies that are still relevant even many years after their release and they will be in the decades to come.
That one dude who keeps turning up on the jumbotrons is John Hurt, who was in another dystopian future movie called MCMLXXXIV (NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR), released in 1984.
Between this film and V For Vendetta, it's as if we were WARNED of all the despotic crap coming our way. Oh wait... we WERE.
I think this young woman is a really good reactor, but it infuriates me people are already living in fear, even if they don't know it. I can't even imagine being scared to say killed, or dead; and I absolutely hate that ridiculous word they use
31:16 This was a miscalculation on Mr. Deitrich's part, and a very _curious_ one. As long as he's been working with the British Government, he should've _known_ better.
This is not a good example of stockholm syndrome, the specifics of her captivity and the dynamics of interaction are wrong, in order for it to be stockholm she would of needed to have known it was V during her imprisonment because prior to that she was not captive in his home.
The recent political situation in the UK makes this movies message more important. People should not fear their government.
this movie predicted C0v1d to perfection.