#Scarlet blade vendetta reddit movie#

They threw for us a few hundred years ago.Scarlet Blade offers various classes to choose between – The Defender, Shadow Walker, Whipper, Punisher, Sentinel, Medic, and the Cyberblade.Įach class differs quite a bit from one another – having very distinct playstyles. I think it's payback time for a little tea party that they have allegedly sent severalĬontainers filled with wheat and tobacco. When God and religion is ever mentioned, it is always in the context of Party: Neither of them (including the bishop) is displayed as a religious figure and by looking at them I couldn't say (but then I am not British myself) are they protestant, catholic or cultists of Cthulhu: they drink tea, and say 'bollocks' a lot.

#Scarlet blade vendetta reddit movie#

While the Church of England in the movie might be displayed as a corrupt institution, I don't believe that was the purpose of the movie - its the country that is sick, the Party that used its influence to promote a paedophile priest to the position of bishop.įor me, those people are stereotypically BRITISH. The movie portraits Guy Fawkes (and V) as a hero fighting the corrupted system, not someone fighting for/against certain religion, someone who is standing in defence of people persecuted for daring to be different than the system would like. Three days later, he ordered all Jesuits and all other Catholic priests to leave the country, and reimposed the collection of fines for recusancy.

On 19 February 1604, shortly after he discovered that his wife, Queen Anne, had been sent a rosary from the pope via one of James's spies, Sir Anthony Standen, James denounced the Catholic Church. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Which is more or less historically accurate: the Gunpowder Plot was trying to kill the unjust (in their opinion) king, not protestants they were planning to blow up the parliament, not the Westminster Chappel Now please note that it is never mentioned that the Guy Fawkes was a Catholic fighting Protestants - he is displayed as someone willing to fight with the system because he thought that the persecution of people based on their beliefs is wrong. It doesn't mean it is pro-Catholic or pro-Muslim, even if we see that possession of Quran is a punishable offence: Islam is banned because of the St Mary's attack were blamed on Muslim terrorists and the Party has rallied people under the banner of xenophobia. V can be seen as an anti-protestant vigilante because the government is using the Church of England as one of its method of control of the population. It is not as much anti-religious as anti-establishment. I would love to be able to say that the movie is more or less religiously and politically neutral (aside from of course being anti-authoritarian and pro-freedom).ĮDIT: I worded my fundamental question better in the comments: how can I avoid the interpretation that V is a catholic vigilante who is gaining retribution for protestants/anglicans having taken over England? I think that's it, so it's not a strong case by any means, but it's something I can't stop wondering about. V leaves Scarlet Carsons for many of his victims, which are symbols of the Catholic Church. The people that V kills are presented as either stereotypically protestant or at least stereotypically Anglican (as far as I know there is little difference) The rhyme 'Remember, remember, the 5th of November' is turned around by the movie not to mean 'beware of the (catholic) treason', but to mean to remember the catholic assassination attempt as a good thing, even something to be reenacted

Historically, Guy Fawkes is specifically anti-protestant/pro-catholic, and the movie treats him positively The main points are I think (all of this is arguable some of it may be incorrect/misinformation but is what I've been told): But, as the movie went on, I wondered about this more and more, and didn't want to defend it unjustly. While watching V for Vendetta with a protestant family member (after having watched it many times myself), I immediately had to defend the movie as not specifically being anti-protestant (or pro-catholic).