5/22/2023 0 Comments Alan moore guy fawkesOf course before it became the symbol of V For Vendetta's mysterious hero it was used in a strange English holiday, and before that it was the face of the man who tried to blow up Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot.Īlan Moore was notoriously unhappy with the movie version of V For Vendetta. And not the comic V For Vendetta, but from the largely ignored movie adaptation starring Natalie Portman. It is now the face of a global protest movement, but before that it was the icon of Anonymous, which grew out of 4Chan, who got it from V For Vendetta. Take for instance the symbol of the Guy Fawkes mask. It's this fluidity that allows symbols to last and last. They can change as the context around them changes. The nice thing about symbols is that they don't have to be tied to any one meaning.
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