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The main character in the 2005 film adaptation of the [[comic book]] series ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' wore a Guy Fawkes mask.{{#tag:ref|[quoting a handwritten note by Dave Lloyd] Why don’t we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He’d look really bizarre and it would give Guy Fawkes the image he’s deserved all these years. We shouldn’t burn the chap every Nov. 5th but celebrate his attempt to blow up Parliament! [end of handwritten note] (...) [due to Dave's idea] All of the various fragments in my head suddenly fell into place, united behind the single image of a Guy Fawkes mask.<ref>{{citation |title="Behind The Painted Smile" Essay by Alan Moore (On the Creation of "V for vendetta") |url= http://www.alanmooresenhordocaos.hpg.ig.com.br/artigos28.htm |accessdate=29 April 2010}}</ref>|group="nb"}} Copies of the mask were used by protesters against the [[Church of Scientology]] in [[Boston]] and in London in 2008.<ref>{{citation |title=Dozens of masked protesters blast Scientology church |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/11/dozens_of_masked_protesters_blast_scientology_church/ |accessdate=26 April 2010}}</ref> |
The main character in the 2005 film adaptation of the [[comic book]] series ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' wore a Guy Fawkes mask.{{#tag:ref|[quoting a handwritten note by Dave Lloyd] Why don’t we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He’d look really bizarre and it would give Guy Fawkes the image he’s deserved all these years. We shouldn’t burn the chap every Nov. 5th but celebrate his attempt to blow up Parliament! [end of handwritten note] (...) [due to Dave's idea] All of the various fragments in my head suddenly fell into place, united behind the single image of a Guy Fawkes mask.<ref>{{citation |title="Behind The Painted Smile" Essay by Alan Moore (On the Creation of "V for vendetta") |url= http://www.alanmooresenhordocaos.hpg.ig.com.br/artigos28.htm |accessdate=29 April 2010}}</ref>|group="nb"}} Copies of the mask were used by protesters against the [[Church of Scientology]] in [[Boston]] and in London in 2008.<ref>{{citation |title=Dozens of masked protesters blast Scientology church |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/11/dozens_of_masked_protesters_blast_scientology_church/ |accessdate=26 April 2010}}</ref> |
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The character of Fawkes from [[Fallout 3]] is a direct reference to Guy Fawkes. The Fallout 3 follower took his name from "A man who died for what he believed in." |
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A criminal in Sid Meier's Pirates, 'the Traitor Faulkes', may be a reference to Guy Fawkes. |
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Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was one of the conspirators behind the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Their aim was to assassinate King James I of England and VI of Scotland by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while he and the entire Protestant aristocracy and nobility were inside. Fawkes was in charge of the gunpowder, but he was arrested a few hours before the planned explosion, during a search of the cellars underneath Parliament in the early hours of 5 November.
Fawkes in fiction
Literature
William Harrison Ainsworth's 1841 historical romance Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason, portrays Fawkes in a generally sympathetic light, although it also embellishes the known facts for dramatic effect.[1] Ainsworth's novel transformed Fawkes into an "acceptable fictional character", and Fawkes subsequently appeared in children's books and penny dreadfuls. One example of the latter is The Boyhood Days of Guy Fawkes; or, The Conspirators of Old London, published in about 1905, which portrayed Fawkes as "essentially an action hero".[2]
Film
Ainsworth's 1841 novel was translated to film in the 1923 production of Guy Fawkes, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang as Fawkes.[3]
The main character in the 2005 film adaptation of the comic book series V for Vendetta wore a Guy Fawkes mask.[nb 1] Copies of the mask were used by protesters against the Church of Scientology in Boston and in London in 2008.[5]
Video Games
The character of Fawkes from Fallout 3 is a direct reference to Guy Fawkes. The Fallout 3 follower took his name from "A man who died for what he believed in."
A criminal in Sid Meier's Pirates, 'the Traitor Faulkes', may be a reference to Guy Fawkes.
References
- Footnotes
- ^ [quoting a handwritten note by Dave Lloyd] Why don’t we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He’d look really bizarre and it would give Guy Fawkes the image he’s deserved all these years. We shouldn’t burn the chap every Nov. 5th but celebrate his attempt to blow up Parliament! [end of handwritten note] (...) [due to Dave's idea] All of the various fragments in my head suddenly fell into place, united behind the single image of a Guy Fawkes mask.[4]
- Notes
- ^ Harrison Ainsworth, William (1841), Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason, Nottingham Society
- ^ Sharpe 2008, p. 128
- ^ Gunpowder Plot Society Library, Gunpowder Plot Society, retrieved 29 April 2010
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- Bibliography
- Sharpe, J. A. (2008), Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0674019355