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V For Vendetta Delayed until March 2006
datemenatalie writes "According to Sci Fi Wire, V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March. The film stars Natalie Portman and was written by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski. This delay comes as quite a blow not only to expectant fans, but also to the marketing campaign of the film, as the clever tagline tie-in 'Remember, remember the 5th of November' is decidedly weaker when you attempt to rhyme it with March 17th."
Beware the ides of march
And schedule your gynecologist
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Save your cash! You can get a blow in the alley behind the Paramount now, and for only five bucks!
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Come on, where is the classic troll? No Hot Grits?!? Sheesh, what has Slashdot come to?
An astute observation about the origins of the movie's tag line. The actual quote "...Remember, Remember, the fifth of November" is from an obscure song by John Lennon called Remember.
This song is one of the centerpieces of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album released in late 1970. Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, had just completed an extended session of Primal Scream therapy under Dr. Arthur Janov which cured him of heroin addiction and post-Beatle-breakup depression.
The album is simple, beautiful, and haunting. This song is just John (on piano) and Ringo (on drums) with lots of echo.
Lennon was at that time the world's biggest rock star and could get away with releasing an album for the sole reason of exorcising deeply personal demons. The record sold poorly, However, his next recording, Imagine, was an instant worldwide success and is still played on rock radio stations worldwide. This song Imagine led directly to Lennon's murder by a young man who had spent three weeks prior to the murder in a fundamentalist Christian commune/retreat in North Carolina. In a manner that preshadowed the Salman Rushdie affair in the late 1980s, the fundamentalists believed that Lennon needed to be assassinated because he had released a hit record with the lyrics "Imagine there's no heaven..." and other contra-religious expressions. When the young assassin showed up at the commune with a fanatical obsession with Lennon and end-of-the-world fantasies, it was a straight-forward task to convince him that Lennon's death would hasten the second coming. They cult-brainwashed him for three weeks, procured for him a powerful handgun, trained him on it, bought him a ticket to NYC, and set him off.
Ten days later, Lennon was dead.