[Borges]

I wonder how that plays here in terms of name recognition. Overheard at one screening was the following exchange: "Dude, what does Vendetta man?" "I dunno"

[LexBaird]

I wonder how that plays here in terms of name recognition

Given the state of general historical ignorance, probably not well. People take crap like Stone's "JFK" to be factual, and that stuff happened within living memory. I doubt even most British know what Guy Fawkes did in any deeper sense than the average US citizen knows what Benedict Arnold actually did.