Comments on: V for Vendetta: The i’s and the t’s

By: Byrd

Byrd — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:29:55 +0000

RE the rose name. I suspect that the film makers figured that
the way roses are sometimes named (after people) isn’t common
knowledge. So if it was “Violet Carson” people would say things
like “It’s red, not violet.” “Is something wrong with the colour
on the movie?” and such

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:04:40 +0000

You should read Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson, which has a lot about narrative complexity and things left unseen.

By: Marionette

Marionette — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:48:59 +0000

Simple. They wanted red roses; violet carsons are a light creamy pink (in the only picture I’ve been able to find of them), although the name suggests something more purple. Or perhaps it’s because Violet Carson was a real person. She played a popular character in a long running british (working class) soap opera called Coronation Street.