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We all remember the FEAR that almost keeps Luke away from his father and Evey away from V ~ that fear could have ruined absolutely everything........
A great leader in real life (F.D.Roosevelt)told us.....
"There is nothing to Fear, but Fear Itself.."
The relationship between V and Evey...is one so similar to the beginning relationship that is between Vader and luke.
It not only shows how both similar characters grow through the story.. but also some of the very harsh love that was given to the both of them in such a very Cruel world.. in order to make them STRONGER in the end.
V uses a harsh love to bring out the inner strength that he clearly senses..Just as Anakin uses harshness to bring out his sons inner strength that he clearly senses..
NOTE (as Lucas explained, Vader never faught Luke to kill or truly battle him, he fought him to bring out Lukes power, to test him and to see if Luke really was strong.. strong enough to help him destroy the emperor as he waited 20yrs to do)
...yet this scene also shows the pain that V must bring to Evey because she is so afraid inside and unsure of herself, she does not believe she can "fight such a large fight", ....something Luke struggles with as well.. in the beginning.
Evey needs to understand what is BEYOND fear.. what is worth more than even her own life.. what she is living for.. what is worth FIGHTING for.. just as Luke had to..
I think we all need to find all of that out, as well.
An once unsure Luke...
An once unsure Evey...
This VITAL Scene I'm talking about is when Evey finds her way OUT of the "interrogation Prison" she was in...
In there for a week that seemed like decades.. she suffered tortures and was questioned time and again "where is code name V??" by the "authorities"
Her only comfort a letter she finds time and again in the crevices...
Here is some of Valerie's Letter:
I know you don't know who I am. Please believe me.
There is no way I can convince you that this is not one
of their tricks. But I don't care.
I am me, and even though I don't know who you are,
I love you.... (( evey reads each note as it is sent to her piece by piece.. and she gains hope in this womans words..)) .............I imagine I'll die quite soon. It's strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologized to nobody. I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. I don't know who you are. I may never see you or cry with you. But I want you to know,
I love you. I hope that you escape this place.
I hope that the world turns and that things get better,
and that one day people have roses again. I wish I could kiss you.
.......what Evey does not know is that it was V the entire time that did the torture, interrogation, and everything he had to in order to again make her strong to strengthen her.... He also sent her those letters.... letters he himself was the one to receive from the real Valerie.. long ago.
Back to the Scene:
After her interrogation - after being told she would be killed for not complying or cooperating - and after a man enters the hallway telling her she had one more chance..
She finally has grown.. she has changed.. and the man hears her .. as she says.. "I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds."
The man walks out.. leaving the DOOR.. Open.. Saying "..then you truly are free"
A very dizzy, very confused Evey makes her way down the hallway ~ half in a daze not knowing what was REAL and what was a mask or a facade, unreal...
Slowly she finds her way to a manakin.. the man she had passed before believing he guarded her door... she pokes it.. and sees.. it is not real.
To her shock.. she makes it to the shadow gallery and V comes out of the shadows slowly adjusting his gloves..
"..Hello Evey" he says.
The thoughts rushing through Evey's mind could only be imagined.... should she FEAR him, distrust him?? Be infuriated with him???
These are the same thoughts Luke struggled with during the time he knew of his father.
....Evey has now discovered it was V that imprisoned her for a time.. that whole time everyone that was in there with her.. was V. The cruelty hits her and she does not understand...
But just moments before....
She told it is time, that she will be executed... she simply looks up and says "I'm READY."
She is told.. "You have one more chance Evey Hammond, tell us the location and where-abouts of codename V and you are free to go.. will you help us?" Her answer is a STRONG and plain... "No."
....Later it seems another man walks in and tells her that it is time to go to her execution... he pleads with her (all of the people she sees through this entire experience are V ~ remember this.)
This is V's attempt at finding out for SURE that Evey truly is strong enough to fight ..
He says one more time, ".. All you have to do is tell them about codename V, and you will be free" Evey replies; "I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds." The shadow of a man in the doorway then tells her, "Then you finally are free.." and walks away..
V knows now for sure she finally is "ready".. it is time to come out.. free to go..
V knows she will now come and find out that it was him. The whole time.
He knows she may never forgive him, but... it is a chance he takes.. just as Vader played his role and had Faith that one day he would lead his son down the path of destroying the Dictator no matter what his son thought of him, he knew that the sith/dictator must be destroyed.. a promise he made to his wife some 20 years before, the only reason he stayed alive.
In this part of the movie.. Evey is in a situation where she is feeling emotions very much Like Vader's son Luke.
Evey is more than confused... she is hurt and afraid... she is very unsure what to think of this man.. she wonders why he has hurt her like this.. not realizing that V has done this NOT to hurt her, but to show her WHO she is.
She somehow knows in her heart that deep within this man there is good in him, but yet V seems to KEEP testing her.. (to show her the Power and strength she has and to try to bring it OUT of her.... get her to USE it.)
JUST as Vader does the same... he tries to bring out all that is powerful within his son.
Both V and Anakin/Vader need the person they are with to Help them.... help them destroy a dictator.... something that has corrupted not only the world around them but has even reached inside of them.. caused so much hate.. that their hearts are in danger as well.
When Evey finds her way out of her fake prison... and she confronts him.. she says..
EVEY "...You.. it was.. you.. that wasn't real.."
V .... "Yes"
....After V explains to her that her friend was captured and killed he tells her... "fortunately I Got to you before they did."
Evey replies "You Got to me???.. you did this to me, you cut my hair... you.. you tortured me, you Tortured me?..WHY??"
V replies...
"You said you wanted to live without fear, I wish there had been an easier way but there wasn't."
...he then explains.. "I know you may never forgive me, but nor will you ever understand how hard it was for me to do what I did.. EVERY DAY I saw in myself everything that you see in me now, EVERY DAY I wanted to end it.. but each time you refused to give in... I knew I couldn't."
Evey then screams "Your SICK! Your EVIL!"
But V replies to her "YOU could have ended it Evey, you could have given in, but you didn't ...why?"
Evey yells "Leave me alone I HATE you!!"
It is then V replies..
"THATS it!.. you see at first I thought it was Hate too.. Hate was all I knew.. it built my world, it taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to Breathe!! ..I thought I'd die with all the Hate in my veins ....but then something happened... it happened to me just as it happened to you."
Evey yells "Shut up! I dont want to hear your lies!"
Yet V replies "Your own father told you that artists use lies to tell the truth.. YES I created a lie
but because you BELIEVED it you found something TRUE about yourself"
This is similar to Anakins life... he creates and lives a lie..in order to stay close to his enemy.. and later destroy him.
...he plans other futures and yet allows himself to remain a slave until the time comes..
Faith is all he has to sustain him until then... just as V has nothing but faith to sustain him until the final november the 5th.. and until he finds Evey....
Evey whispers "..No.."
V continues... "What was true in that cell is just as true now.. what happened to you in there has nothing to do with me.."
Evey tells him "I cant feel anything anymore!!" she is utterly confused and as she bends V holds her up telling her "Dont run from it Evey you've been running all your life..."
He goes on as she cries.. "LISTEN to me Evey.. this may be the most important moment in your life, commit to it." Slowly he tells her "They took your parents from you, they took your brother from you, they put you in a cell and took everything they could, except your life...."
(This is the same with Luke he believes his step parents and his real father was taken from him because of this Sith Emperors Empire, and they were...)
"...And you believed that was all there was didn't you?.. The only thing you had left was your Life, but it WASN'T was it? ..You found something else.. In that cell you found something that meant more to you than your life.... Because when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted.... You told them you'd rather die. You faced your death Evey... you were calm... you were still... try to feel now what you felt then....."
This moment is the same as when Anakins son Luke is faced with death or commitment to the dictators cause... and he too says NO. He turns around and tells the emperor/dictator..."You have failed your highness..." That is being calm, being still and facing your death because you are listening to your heart.
....V then takes Evey to the Roof and she walks slowly into the rain..
She remembers letters she read written by someone she later finds out was named Valerie..... she got them through a hole in the wall while imprisoned (...later V explains it was he who gave her those letters/ real letters he had received from Valerie a long time ago....)
She sends her hands to the skies, lets the water soak her, and whispers what was written on the pages she read ..."God is in the Rain"
The rain pours down on her and V watches as he remembers his time in the flames.. He knows her purpose is blossoming.. and that she is now STRONGER. Unafraid.
As the rain drops onto her the thunder rumbles and we watch as her faith is renewed.. she sees the strength within herself.. she Finally feels her own power.
Remembering her soul.. Death meant nothing because no one can destroy your Spirit.. your soul..
She finds her worth, her strength, her Faith.. just as Luke finds his worth, his strength and his own faith in the force.. his love for his father, his sense of what is right and what you just never.. ever surrender to anyone.. that inch.. that small.. inch.."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of
the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are
afraid of the light." - Plato -
A person may forget their own strength but this does not mean it is not still there within them.
V had to teach Evey to overcome her fears.. he did it.
Just as Vader had to be sure to teach his son strength and how to overcome fears.. to be sure he was Strong.. and Anakin/Vader was willing to "play his part" to do this.
He remains UNDER his mask waiting for the day he can take his revenge... Episode 3 QUOTE from Anakin before the mask: "I can destroy him Padme.. and we can rule, together.."
But Anakin (as Vader) had to create a Man in his son, a man of great strength that would one day help him destroy the dictator he had waited 20yrs to destroy.... he swore it Long ago.
Behind that mask he had not forgotten.. ever.
Something to know for those of you who do not.. Please remember Lucas has said that Vader KNEW of his son for the 20 years he waits with the empire... he waits closer to his enemy than a brother. He knew of Luke (but not Leia) ...and waited the 20 years BECAUSE he was waiting for Luke to grow up..
When he finally faces him on cloud city in Empire strikes Back that is when he begs him to help him kill the emperor as he planned for SO long..... Luke doesn't know that Vader speaks the truth and he denies him.
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Here below is a Video about PLANS...
.....planning for 20 years V has set up many dominoes.. and they all have their place.... each one connected to the next..... all reaching one goal, one end...
Vader too plans for 20yrs before he finds his answer to his hopes.... his faith brings him his son and the dominoes begin to fall for him as well....
....so below... watch the Dominoes fall...
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.....In the beginning of both stories V and Vader rely on physical power, anger, revenge, and plans/tactics...
BUT also on FAITH.. and then the faith they find once V finds Evey and Vader finds his son..
They both believe that they can teach this younger one to stand with them against a common threat.... standing to achieve that same goal..
Scene from V's burning in the Comic Version....
...But just as Evey sees the world differently from V, Luke sees his world differently from his father Vader...
.... and both V and Vader learn later that they can learn something from the young one that they are trying to teach.....
At the end of the saga..
Vaders son knew that even though Anakin once lived his life without hatred.. and then became filled with rage.... Evey also knows V is inside filled with good intentions....
Yet... both Luke and Evey realize that somehow both V and Vader still have fallen.... because of Hatred, pain and anger both characters fall into a very violent life..
VADER...
Vader and V both believe the revenge, the hatred .. it is justified.. and they are waiting for the day that their own plans for the peace they imagine and have imagined for 20 years.... will come...
But Evey can see that now he V has become hidden behind a mask.. not just a physical mask but a mental one as well.. one that locks away the person that once was....
Luke sees that same thing in Vader... Anakin also hides himself behind a mask.. and because of his hatred he is still waiting for the day it will all end and his promise to padme (ep3) will come true. Both V and Vader are still each "a cause walking"...
Vader LOVED once. And was obidient to love, but now he has become a slave.. in a very obvious way.. to this emperor.. because he swore himself when he tried to SAVE Padme's life.. and not only Padme, but his unborn, the republic, and the galaxy.. much to much to place on one mans shoulders. It can teach us one thing... that we cannot place too much on ourselves.. that we can and should ask for help.. that maybe just maybe someone will listen. Anakin has lost all trust at that point.. and asks no one.
He chose from the moment he knew to kneel.. to "keep your friends close your ENEMIES closer" so to speak.. he is playing his part.. the part of a slave really.. while waiting for the son he knows of.. waiting for the day..victory comes.. AND almost waiting in vain.
V also is a type of slave.. because he is living no other life but that of hatred and plotting for 20 years.. no love, no life outside of his anger.. his only reason to live.. is revenge.. justified by bringing peace.. just as Anakin justified his revenge that he never gave up upon.
He does show Evey the love he holds secret for "Valerie" the woman from the cell next to him...
...and as time goes by he learns to love evey...
....But life and love and freedom... all of that is gone now, he hides behind a mask and is a CAUSE walking now.... he represents an IDEA and a promise.. faded memories will not bring either of them the vengence that both V and Vader seek.
BOTH Luke and EVEY end up realizing their parts in the story.... both did not want to fall letting hate or anger or Vengence pull them into such a similar terrible fate.
Evey closely guards herself.. her emotions. You never see her raise a hand in violence against anyone... V has that fate.. he has that role.. it is what he chose long ago.
Evey has a separate role to play just as Luke has a separate role to play..
Both of them helping the SOUL behind a mask get to where they need to be.. and finish their fate or their cause....
Think back on Return of the Jedi... The END of Anakins life.. After the duel, when Luke is so angry, so full of RAGE and darkness.. as he stands over his father..
Vader surrenders the fight to his son.. still hoping he has enraged him enough to get his anger to focus on the emperor.. and in revenge DESTROY the emperor.
But Luke hears the laughter of the emperor, he hears the dictator ask him to take his "fathers place" at his side.. A very interesting thing to say.. what that says about revenge is terrifying. That one can turn into the thing one hates the most.. almost unbelievable.
Yet, looking at his father, and then at himself towering over his father... her realizes YES anyone can fall.. even.... himself.. even as he realises what is more important than his own life.. what "that inch" really is.. what he stands for.. and what he will now do. And wont do.
Dropping the blade of vengence and hatred.. courage fills him.. suddenly something matters more than his life.. He refuses .. he faces his death knowing certainly this means death!!
Yet, he has faith.. faith that there is something more important than ones own life.. AND he has faith in his father. When the last of the horrific lightning attacks come.. and as he lays dying from the attacks of the emperor dictator..
Luke finally sees something happening to his father.. he watches as Vader RISES up from the ground...
... finally knowing that it is his own responsibility to end the world that he comes from, and it is his sons responsibility to continue on.
V tells Evey something VERY much like this at the end of v for vendetta.
""..the world I helped to create will end tonite, and a new world will begin tomorrow that new people will create.. and this choice (to pull the lever and destroy the buildings of parliment) belongs to them." Evey knows V is referring to her.. as the future.. the one who will chose the future.
As Vader is watching Luke cries out to him "father please!, help me!" and Vader realizes.. just as Luke.. his OWN power is within.. just as Luke needed to find his strength.... now he sees that he must also do the same thing... he can destroy this dictator ALONE.. he does not need Luke as he thought he did.. it is his responsibility.
NOTE;;;; Lucas has explained that vader/anakin never thought he could defeat the emperor alone anymore as he had planned after losing so much of his own body, his limbs.. everything.. the jedi taught that loss of the body is loss of midichlorians, the cell symbiants that help connect with the force. Anakin knew he must be much more weak now. Even though he was so strong in the force, and as they explain in the films.. even stronger than master yoda.. he still doubts he wont betray only to lose. If he revealed his hatred and his plot to destroy this sithlord he would lose everything if he lost the battle. He did not gamble on it. Instead he waited for his son to come. And indeed later luke did come.. but we see at the end of the film.. it is ANAKIN that does destroy the dictator.. he always could have.. and he never knew, never realised. Seeing his son and the future he imagines dying before his eyes, he knows it is worth it to risk and sacrifice his own life to kill this sith dictator. AND DOES SO.
This is what happens.. Anakin Destroys the sith just as he promised Padme 20 years before.. and just as the prophecy said the chosen one would, he brings balance back.
...He watches the emperor die and as he does.. the lightning hits him full on. Yes, he begins to die.. just as V faces his "maker"... the dictator knowing he will die.. telling mr. creedy "the only thing you and I have in common mr creedy is that we are both about to DIE." V knows.. and he also knows.. YES it is worth the sacrifice.
V begins to die after taking on the dictator at the end of v for vendetta.. after the final battle and his own victory.. he feels himself fading.. just as Vader does.
..Vader turns to Luke and Luke tries to carry him out and away...
But it is no use.... Vader/Anakin has sacrificed himself while he was destroying the sith.. and now he lays dying.. in his own sons arms........
Back when V told Evey "its time to meet my maker and thank him for all he has done" ..Evey knew to just let him go... though she does not want to..
She does not want to lose V.. just as Luke does not want to lose his father.. but all of the past seems to drown the future..
Both V and Vader destroy their Dictator..
BUT this time it is not out of hate, but out of FAITH and even LOVE.. not out of fear, but out of justice, out of hope for the future.. and with Vader, love for his son.
With V it is the same. He faces down his dictator alone ..he fights and he also sacrifices his life in the process... yet he does succeed in destroying his dictator....
Evey will is left with the lever to pull to destroy Parliment and move into a new future, just as Luke and those with him finish off the deathstar.. destroying it and a new future begins because his Son was with him and his daughter with rebels.. he can already hear the explosions..
He knows his son has the future to face.. as it should be, and he knows he will die in this effort made to destroy the dictator... a price his is willing to pay.
BOTH Vader and V are more than willing to pay this price.. yet neither V or Vader destroy their dictators out of Revenge anymore.. the CAUSE is purified by Luke with Vader and by Evey with V..
Evey and Luke as well symbolize the FAITH and HOPE and love and all that is good in humanity.. all that V wants to preserve.. all that Vader wanted to protect when he first tried to Trick the sith in ep3 into allowing him close enough to SOMEDAY.. destroy him.
The reasons they both first rebelled in the first place are now at hand.
Luke also reminds vader/ANAKIN of his past of his wife and of that love. Vader/Anakin is left with his son at the end of his life.... Just as V finds his way back to Evey...
.....and they both die in the arms of one who truly does love them... who understands.. (unconditional love)
Anakin with his Son.....
Quote "..Let me look at on you with my OWN eyes.." -Vader
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~~~~~~~~~~ Remembering Anakin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hard to watch... yet this is the story of the 6 films.
I believe A true revolution is inescapable.. it is within us all and it cannot be stopped. You can let go and it will still happen.. as long as there is faith as long as there is love.. revolution ALWAYS comes and always overcomes.. it is in our own History.
LOVE, a love from human to human.. the ability to understand that behind it all.. and beyond it all.. a true heart is beating.. love leads those who will listen and feel with her heart.. to realise truths. Finally Evey knew she had to "help him" just as Anakins son later finds out that he must help his own father.. Vader.
(as V says about his favorite film "Count of Monte Cristo", "It gets me every TIME")
Strangely in these films... both characters are given a Viking funeral where their body is burned.
Their Armor and mask Burned.. and they are burned.. the sight of the funerals.. one in a Jedi Pyre and one burning as Parliment burns.. is amazing.. and inspiring..
Fireworks light up the sky in both films.. and the whole public is watching....
They both found someone at the end of their lives who care deeply for the person that they are behind their masks.... the real soul beneath the image or the role they felt they had to play to gain the "peace" they sought.
Luke burns Vaders Armor and Mask...
...Faith...
WE can Remember our own real Power of Spirit by remembering the ART that we have created to remind us of that power.
I hope I brightened someones day for a moment reminding you of these wonderful films......
Please take a moment sometime and tell me what YOU think.....
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All those who are brave enough to Dream. Especially when their dreams are brave..
I love to meet artists, storytellers... We are the keepers of the key to the future.
True revolution is not an action, it is not a cause, it is a strong force that lies within us... in our very soul and will not be stopped. It is something that is simply true and there is just no way of going around it or escaping it. I believe that it is inevitable to meet up with a real revolution.. it comes even if no one is watching, because the dreamers are constantly dreaming and what secrets we hide in the darkness will always come out into the light..
It is just the nature of things.. the nature of how humanity has been since ever the first child was born. It seems to be the painful way we grow. I wish that we did not have to fight so hard for the good road.. but sometimes people have had to. I pray for peace.
A video that was really well done... Whatever your opinions or political beliefs or whatever you have researched on the subject.. I am not taking sides.. I only wanted to put this here because it was SO well done by the artist....
9/11 5/11 V for Vendetta coincidences
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