V for Vendetta - This Vicious Cabaret

The song is performed by David Jay.

I know there are already a few on here, but none were really to my liking so I took a stab at it. Footage from the movie V for Vendetta done to the song from the comic. My second revision.

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• vendetta
• alan
• moore
• david
• jay
• evey
• creedy
• finch

[clashcitywannabe]

The V at the piano scene should SO have been in the film

[TheSoulMan8]

I would have loved to hear Hugo Weaving sing this

[1215ra]

@gentlerat

I could be wrong (I haven't read much of the book) but it seems to me that V blowing up Parliament is basically V getting the attention of the Norse-fire Regime while saying, "Attention fascists! A wind of fire is coming that will see your petty 5-year plans and death camps fall into ashes, never to squeeze the nation's throat! Come and See!!"

[Vadfuly]

I can actually imagine V singing this while playing the piano.

[gentlerat]

@sailorxyz Actually the most important aspect that they removed would have to be the distinction between "Do as you please," and "take what you like." The book didn't actually lead into a state of perfect anarchy onstage, only chaos (which is entirely different in Moore's definition of the terms). It ends with Evey trying to lead them (ironically) into a better state of anarchy. Giving everyone a V mask is more in keeping with anarchy than just one person, but the issues are not even discussed.

[gentlerat]

@thenamedoesnotmatter As Alan Moore said with reguard to another criminal he wrote about, it's not so important who is doing it as why, although V's choice to blow up parliament still confuses me. It is implied in both book and film to be an empty building not used by the present government (sure it fits V's Guy Fawkes obsession, but it has nothing to do with his goals).

[brandymydog]

@ninjutsuwolf Or the song; I personally don't like the way this is sung.

[ninjutsuwolf]

8 Sutlers dislike this video...

[TGCid20]

Fucking well done.

[Victim5and5Villain]

@thenamedoesnotmatter I agree with Micky, sometimes, a literal translation just doesn't work for a video but on the other hand, sometimes it does -- but not throughout the whole thing. It's a difference in style. As for V not being enigmatic ... as a character, he is *very* enigmatic, keeping everything mysterious until the very end, and even then, nobody knew just who he was aside from the Idea he represented, and that quality has nothing to do with his vengeful side.

[thenamedoesnotmatter]

@mickycisme you're grasping at straws. The only way for the video to work IS the literal lyric to video which adds a profound emphatic effect on top of the austere video. There's still a lot of content left in the show even if it is spoiled by this video; I think that for the effort put into finding the video here on youtube one could just as easily find it on netflix or another video service. V isn't enigmatic in any way; don't try to pad on eccentricity to revenge. It was a good show though.

[mickycisme]

Great video, but a little too literal. After the first few clips that showed the exact literal interpretation of the lyrics the rest of the video became predictable, almost inevitable.

A big part of making viewers become engaged with a story is not showing them too much, knowing when to move closer and when to pull away. A subject as enigmatic as V deserves a subtle and thought-provoking spin... making everything explicit and literal does him a disservice, I think.