V staged her imprisonment to free her from her fears. V reveals Gordon was executed, while he rescued Evey. When she says she would rather die, she is released, finding herself in V's home. Evey is to be executed unless she reveals V's location. She is tortured for information about V, her only solace being a note written by Valerie Page, an actress whose partner, Ruth, was captured by the Fingermen, being tortured and killed after being revealed as Ruth's partner. Delia Surridge, who experimented on him and others at Larkhill concentration camp twenty years earlier seeing her genuine remorse, he kills her painlessly.Īfter Gordon satirizes the government on his show, his home is raided, and Evey is captured. In return for Evey trusting him, Gordon reveals subversive paintings, an antique Quran, and homoerotic photographs. Evey offers to help but escapes to the home of her boss, talk show host Gordon Deitrich. Anthony Lilliman, the Bishop of London, advances on Evey, before being saved by V, who kills Lilliman. V takes Evey's access card and confronts Norsefire's propagandist, Lewis Prothero, in the shower, killing him. V takes Evey to his home, where she is told she must remain for one year. Evey helps him escape but is knocked unconscious. V hijacks a BTN broadcast to claim responsibility for the destruction, encouraging the people of Britain to rebel against their government and meet him on next year's Guy Fawkes Night outside the Houses of Parliament. Inspector Eric Finch of Scotland Yard investigates V's activities. After the stroke of midnight, they watch his demolition of the Old Bailey, accompanied by fireworks and the "1812 Overture". On November 4, a vigilante in a Guy Fawkes mask, "V," rescues Evey Hammond, an employee of the state-run British Television Network (BTN), from members of the "Fingermen" secret police. Political opponents, immigrants, Irish, Jews, Muslims, atheists, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" are imprisoned and executed. Britain is ruled as a supremacist and neo-fascist one-party police state by the Norsefire Party, helmed by all-powerful High Chancellor Adam Sutler. Mary's Virus" is ravaging continental Europe. The United States is fractured as a result of a second civil war and an epidemic of the "St. 8.1 Differences between the film and the graphic novelįollowing global war, terrorism, and pandemics, the world is in turmoil.David Lloyd stated: "The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny-and I'm happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way." V for Vendetta has been seen by many political groups as an allegory of oppression by government anarchists have used it to promote their beliefs. However, Alan Moore, having been dissatisfied with the film adaptations of his other works, From Hell (2001) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), declined to watch the film and asked to not be credited or paid royalties. Pictures on 4 November 2005 (a day before the 400th Guy Fawkes Night), but was delayed it instead opened in the United States on 17 March 2006 to mostly positive reviews from critics and was a box office success. Produced by Silver Pictures, Virtual Studios and Anarchos Productions, Inc., V for Vendetta was originally scheduled for release by Warner Bros. Stephen Rea portrays a detective leading a desperate quest to stop V. It centres on V (portrayed by Hugo Weaving), an anarchist and masked freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts, and Evey Hammond (portrayed by Natalie Portman) a young woman caught up in V's mission. The film is set in a future where a fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the UK. It is based on the 1988 DC Vertigo Comics limited series of the same title by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political action film directed by James McTeigue (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by the Wachowskis.
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