Thursday, August 23, 2007

V for Vendetta AMAZING facts(hmm thats" 5" words!)

So, I'm doing my research on Graphic Novels and Comic Books
and i came across these crazy badass facts that i sure as hell would never had known if no one had never told me or i hadn't read it here myself about
"V for Vendetta":

Number 5 and letter V:

There are numerous references throughout V for Vendetta (both potentially intentional or unintentional) to the number 5 and letter V, which is itself "5" in Roman numerals:

* The title "V for Vendetta" contains 5 syllables.

* The character V is seen reading and quoting from Thomas Pynchon's novel, V.

* Beethoven's fifth symphony is used in the book and noted for the prominent use of three short notes and one long (which is the Morse Code identifier for the letter V. This code was used as a call sign by the BBC during World War II, most famously in the sense of V for Victory.

* Evey's name is composed of "E" (the fifth letter of the alphabet), "V" (5 in Roman numerals, and the fifth letter from the end of the alphabet), and "Y" (25th letter of the alphabet, or 5 squared).

* V is eventually identified as the prisoner from Room 5 at Larkhill Internment Camp. The five doors are labeled with Roman numerals, so Room 5 is emblazoned with a "V". The number 5, when converted to binary numerals, is 101 (a possible allusion to the infamous torture room 101 in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four).

* V's hideout is accessed from the closed Victoria tube station, the damaged sign of which resembles a sideways V when Finch locates it.

* V's personal motto consists of the Latin phrase Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe), which in turn consists of five words that begin with the letter V ("U" is written as "V" in Latin). Aleister Crowley also used the phrase as one of his personal mottos, a fact that appears in Alan Moore's later book Promethea. But V mentions only the origin of the phrase in Faust.

* November is the only month in the Gregorian calendar with the letter V in it.

* The woman who dies in the cell next to that of V at Larkhill is named Valerie Page. The name "Valerie" begins with the letter V.

* As Evey appears to give her speech to the public after she has assumed the identity of V, the visual angle of the frame causes a V to be formed between the edges of the building she is standing on and the building behind her.

* The government consists of the five branches with are identified with the five senses

* At Larkhill, V is injected with Batch "5", or in Roman numerals, Batch "V"

* In the graphic novel, V prepares his revenge for 5 years, but this was changed to twenty years in the film version

* Guy Fawkes Day happens on November 5

This all draws on The Law of Fives, in particular how it was expressed in The Illuminatus! Trilogy[3] specifically:

"And everything really follows the Fives' law?" Joe asked.
"More than you guess," Dillinger remarked blandly.
"Even when you're dealing with social fields, " Simon added. "We've run studies of cultures where the Illuminati were not in control, and they still follow Weishaupt's five-stage pattern: Verwirrung, Zwietracht, Unordnung, Beamtenherrschaft and Grummet."
...
"Hell," Simon said, "look what Beethoven did when Weishaupt illuminated him. Went right home and wrote the Fifth Symphony. You know how it begins: da-da-da-DUM. Morse code for V - the Roman numeral for five"[6]

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