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Gunpowder Treason
Aug. 19th, 2006 11:12 amThoughts on V for Vendetta:
I will forgive a lot about a movie if it has Hugo Weaving spouting alliteration in it. His name is now Agent V Elrond.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November...is it slightly weird of me to know about Guy Fawkes from reading Enid Blyton as a kid, even though I'm Australian? 'Cause yeah. I knew about him from reading lots of Enid Blyton as a kid. Specifially, reading a Brer Rabbit story in which he convinces...I think it was Brer Fox? One of those hapless predators...to dress up as a Guy and get kerploded. It also helped me get a reference in Harry Potter. Um, yay me?
Oh yeah I almost forgot: YAY ME ESPECIALLY (frictionless seque, that) because we did our QCS practice (QCS is the Official Queensland Big-Ass Graduation Fail This And Fail Life Test the seniors do every year) and I managed not to suck. In fact, in the writing task (pick a stimulus based on a theme and write six hundred words inspired by this stimulus) I got a 1+ grade.
Let me put this into perspective for you.
On the marking sheet, there is a table showing some standards and a scale from 1-5, one being the best, five the worst. At each grade there's written a little criteria for how awesome you have to be to get that grade, like "sentence structure was varied; spelling, grammar and punctuation all nearly flawless" for number one. The teacher will tick the grade they think you achieved then weigh it up to see your total grade.
Then, above that, they have the 1+ scale.
*glee*
*pride*
Also at the end of the practice they handed us a sheet of paper to write 'reflective criticism' on. I have mine right here. By the end of that test I was kind of lolling rather than sitting, so let's see what my brain wrought in its fatigue:
-Glah.
-I say again, GLAAAAAH.
(You know, I think I was a little tired.)
-I probably need water.
-Sugar also.
-Let's expand that to include food of any kind, shall we?
(I forgot my lunch. I can have an astonishingly one-track mind.)
-I should pay more attention to exam times.
-Library = bad place to wait.
(Guess who was late. Go on, guess.)
-Do not watch movies about dystopian Britain.
-Do not watch movies about dystopian anything.
-Do not watch movies.
-Especially Wachowski movies.
-Even if they have Hugo Weaving in them
-Hugo Weaving is awesome.
(Mind. Track, one of.)
Then it just has a picture of Reaver flourishing his knives and grinning evilly. I had a lot of time left over, I guess.
Hopefully this means I can go to QANTM and rock out, man, rock out. Although to do that I should probably be working on my soliloquy for English, but logic does not dictate me. Have a picture of V in a flowery apron.
EDIT: "Twilight Sniping" from the MGS2 soundtrack is so goddamn awesome. Just a note.
I will forgive a lot about a movie if it has Hugo Weaving spouting alliteration in it. His name is now Agent V Elrond.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November...is it slightly weird of me to know about Guy Fawkes from reading Enid Blyton as a kid, even though I'm Australian? 'Cause yeah. I knew about him from reading lots of Enid Blyton as a kid. Specifially, reading a Brer Rabbit story in which he convinces...I think it was Brer Fox? One of those hapless predators...to dress up as a Guy and get kerploded. It also helped me get a reference in Harry Potter. Um, yay me?
Oh yeah I almost forgot: YAY ME ESPECIALLY (frictionless seque, that) because we did our QCS practice (QCS is the Official Queensland Big-Ass Graduation Fail This And Fail Life Test the seniors do every year) and I managed not to suck. In fact, in the writing task (pick a stimulus based on a theme and write six hundred words inspired by this stimulus) I got a 1+ grade.
Let me put this into perspective for you.
On the marking sheet, there is a table showing some standards and a scale from 1-5, one being the best, five the worst. At each grade there's written a little criteria for how awesome you have to be to get that grade, like "sentence structure was varied; spelling, grammar and punctuation all nearly flawless" for number one. The teacher will tick the grade they think you achieved then weigh it up to see your total grade.
Then, above that, they have the 1+ scale.
*glee*
*pride*
Also at the end of the practice they handed us a sheet of paper to write 'reflective criticism' on. I have mine right here. By the end of that test I was kind of lolling rather than sitting, so let's see what my brain wrought in its fatigue:
-Glah.
-I say again, GLAAAAAH.
(You know, I think I was a little tired.)
-I probably need water.
-Sugar also.
-Let's expand that to include food of any kind, shall we?
(I forgot my lunch. I can have an astonishingly one-track mind.)
-I should pay more attention to exam times.
-Library = bad place to wait.
(Guess who was late. Go on, guess.)
-Do not watch movies about dystopian Britain.
-Do not watch movies about dystopian anything.
-Do not watch movies.
-Especially Wachowski movies.
-Even if they have Hugo Weaving in them
-Hugo Weaving is awesome.
(Mind. Track, one of.)
Then it just has a picture of Reaver flourishing his knives and grinning evilly. I had a lot of time left over, I guess.
Hopefully this means I can go to QANTM and rock out, man, rock out. Although to do that I should probably be working on my soliloquy for English, but logic does not dictate me. Have a picture of V in a flowery apron.
EDIT: "Twilight Sniping" from the MGS2 soundtrack is so goddamn awesome. Just a note.
