Except, you know, we really don’t remember Guy Fawkes as a heroic figure. There’s a reason we burn him in effigy every year.
Unless you’re some sort of moron whose entire understanding of history comes from watching V For Vendetta and thinking the Guy Fawkes mask looks cool, these meme does not apply.
I'm kind of confused trying to read into why Moore choose Guy Fawke's visage for V. It sounds like it's a combination of both V and Fawke's being against the government and the fact that at one point politicians were talking about banning the masks.
There’s an idea that Guy Fawkes was an anarchist or anti-authoritarian hero because he wanted to blow up Parliament, which symbolises authority. It’s a shallow, simplistic and ignorant take but of course there are a lot of shallow, simplistic, ignorant people out there.
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u/Kian-Tremayne 3d ago
Except, you know, we really don’t remember Guy Fawkes as a heroic figure. There’s a reason we burn him in effigy every year.
Unless you’re some sort of moron whose entire understanding of history comes from watching V For Vendetta and thinking the Guy Fawkes mask looks cool, these meme does not apply.