If you want to appreciate the power of a good idea, I give you this epic and impeccably written scene from Alan Moore's masterpiece, V For Vendetta:
Creedy (bad guy): We have guns.
V (good guy): No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty, I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you… Read More
If you want to appreciate the power of a good idea, I give you this epic and impeccably written scene from Alan Moore's masterpiece, V For Vendetta:
Creedy (bad guy): We have guns.
V (good guy): No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty, I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.
Creedy: [scoffing] That's impossible. Kill him.
[The men open fire on V, but he still stands after their clips are empty]
V: My turn.
[V proceeds to kill all the men with his knives before they manage to reload]
Creedy: [desperately shooting at the slowly approaching V] Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die??
V: Because beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy. And ideas are bulletproof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPlT2uKruwM&feature=fvwrel
I'm well aware that this isn't advertising copy. But let's just say as a writer, I like my ideas to be a little like V. Read Less
