V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta collected edition cover, art by David Lloyd
Publisher	Quality Comics (UK) Vertigo/DC Comics (USA)
Publication date	1982-1988
Number of issues	10
Main character(s)	V Evey Hammond Eric Finch
Creative team
Writer(s)	Alan Moore
Artist(s)	David Lloyd
Colorist(s)	Steve Whitaker, Siobhan Dodds, David Lloyd

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. David Lloyd (born 1950 is a British Comics artist best known as the Illustrator of the Graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by Quality Communications is the company formed by Dez Skinn in 1982 to publish Warrior, an anthology Comic book title Vertigo is an Imprint of the American Comic-book publisher DC Comics. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company V is a Fictional character from the Comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Evey Hammond is a Fictional character in the V for Vendetta Comic book series (created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd Chief Inspector Eric Finch is a fictional character from the graphic novel V for Vendetta. Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed David Lloyd (born 1950 is a British Comics artist best known as the Illustrator of the Graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by Steve Whitaker (1955-2008 was a British artist best known as the Colourist on the Comic V For Vendetta (originally published David Lloyd (born 1950 is a British Comics artist best known as the Illustrator of the Graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed David Lloyd (born 1950 is a British Comics artist best known as the Illustrator of the Graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος alternatively cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A mysterious anarchist named "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i V is a Fictional character from the Comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe Political systems where a State regulates nearly every aspect of public and private

The series is set in a near-future Britain after a limited nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed. In this future, an extreme fascist party called Norsefire has arisen and is now the ruling power. Norsefire is the fictional fascist Political party ruling the United Kingdom in Alan Moore and David Lloyd 's V for "V", an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent and theatrical campaign to bring down the government. Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606) sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English

Contents 1 Background 2 Plot 3 Characters 3.1 Major characters 3.2 Minor characters 4 Themes 4.1 Anarchism versus fascism 4.2 Identity 4.3 Number 5 and letter V 5 Adaptations 5.1 Music 5.2 Theatre 5.3 Film 6 Collections 7 Interviews 8 Notes and references 9 External links

Background

The first episodes of V for Vendetta were originally published in black-and-white between 1982 and 1985, in Warrior, a British anthology comic published by Quality Comics. Warrior was a British anthology comic that ran for 26 issues between March 1982 and January 1985 Quality Communications is the company formed by Dez Skinn in 1982 to publish Warrior, an anthology Comic book title The strip was one of the most popular in the title and featured on several covers during the 26 issues of Warrior.

Internally, V for Vendetta is divided into three "books". Warrior was cancelled at the end of the second book. Three years later, DC Comics reunited Alan Moore and David Lloyd to finish the series, which was published in ten monthly issues, then collected in hardback and trade paperback. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company David Lloyd's artwork for V for Vendetta in Warrior was originally published in black-and-white, giving it a harsh chiaroscuro effect that worked very well with the grim subject matter. Chiaroscuro ( Italian for light-dark) is a term in Art for a contrast between light and dark In the DC Comics version, the artwork has been "colourised" in pastels, which some fans feel compromises its effectiveness.

In writing V for Vendetta, Moore drew upon an idea for a strip titled The Doll he had submitted to DC Thomson when he was twenty-two years old. D C Thomson & Co Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing Oor Wullie, The Broons In "Behind the Painted Smile",^[1] Moore revealed that the idea was rejected as DC Thomson balked at the idea of a "transsexual terrorist". Transsexualism is a condition in which a person identifies with a physical Sex different from the one with which they were born Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion Years later, Warrior editor Dez Skinn invited Moore to create a dark mystery strip with artist David Lloyd. Derek "Dez" Skinn is a British Comic book and Magazine editor and author of number of books on comics ^[2] Lloyd and Moore considered several proposals, including one titled Vendetta that set the story in 1930s United States. The setting developed through their discussions, moving from 1930s United States to near-future Britain. As the setting progressed, so did the character's development; once conceived as a "realistic" gangster-age American, he became, first, a policeman rebelling against the totalitarian state he served, then became a heroic anarchist.

Moore and Lloyd conceived the series as a dark adventure strip influenced by British comic characters of the 1960s, as well as Night Raven, a Marvel UK strip which Lloyd had previously worked on with writer Steve Parkhouse. A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips Night Raven is a fictional Superhero appearing primarily in Marvel UK Comics a division of Marvel Comics. Marvel UK was an Imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US produced stories for the British weekly comic market though Steve Parkhouse is a Writer, Artist and Letterer who has worked for a lot of British comics, especially 2000 AD and Editors Dez Skinn and Graham Marsh came up with the name V for Vendetta. David Lloyd developed the idea of dressing V as Guy Fawkes after previous designs followed the conventional superhero look. Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606) sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do

During the preparation of the story Moore made a list of what he wanted to bring into the plot, which he reproduced in "Behind the Painted Smile":

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The political climate of Britain in the early 1980s has also been cited as an influence on the work,^[3] with Moore positing that Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government would "obviously lose the 1983 elections", and that the Michael Foot-led Labour government that replaced it, being committed to complete nuclear disarmament, would allow the United Kingdom to escape relatively unscathed after a limited nuclear war. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Results The Conservatives won with a majority of 144 seats|} Total votes cast 30661309 Michael Mackintosh Foot (born 23 July 1913 is a British politician and writer The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located However, Moore felt a post-holocaust Britain would be quickly subverted by fascists. ^[1] Moore's predictions were perceived to be unlikely and, addressing this when DC reissued the work, he noted:

Naïveté can also be detected in my supposition that it would take something as melodramatic as a near-miss nuclear conflict to nudge England towards fascism. . . The simple fact that much of the historical background of the story proceeds from a predicted Conservative defeat in the 1982 General Election should tell you how reliable we were in our roles as Cassandras. In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek: Κασσάνδρα "she who entangles men" (also known as Alexandra) was the daughter of King ^[4]

When Warrior was cancelled in 1985 (with one completed episode unpublished due to the cancellation), several companies attempted to convince Moore and Lloyd to let them publish and complete the story. In 1988 DC Comics published a ten-issue series that reprinted the Warrior stories in colour, then continued the series to completion. The first new material appeared in issue #7, which included the unpublished episode that would have appeared in Warrior #27. Tony Weare drew one chapter ("Vincent") and contributed additional art to two others ("Valerie", "The Vacation"); Steve Whitaker and Siobhan Dodds worked as colourists on the entire series. Tony Weare ( January 1, 1912 – December 2, 1994) was a Comics artist best known for drawing Matt Marriott, a daily Steve Whitaker (1955-2008 was a British artist best known as the Colourist on the Comic V For Vendetta (originally published In Comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black and white line art The series, including Moore's "Behind the Painted Smile" essay and two "interludes" outside the central continuity, was then collected as a graphic novel, published in the US by DC's Vertigo imprint (ISBN 0-930289-52-8) and in the UK by Titan Books (ISBN 1-85286-291-2). A The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Vertigo is an Imprint of the American Comic-book publisher DC Comics. Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company established in 1981

Plot

November 5, 1997, London. Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The vigilante known as V rescues a young woman, Evey Hammond, from a gang of police agents (known as "Fingermen") who are about to rape her after arresting her for prostitution. Evey Hammond is a Fictional character in the V for Vendetta Comic book series (created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. After dispatching the Fingermen, V heads to a local rooftop with Evey and detonates the Palace of Westminster, the building where the old Parliament met. He models this after the failed Gunpowder Plot that Guy Fawkes and several others orchestrated in 1605. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time was a failed Assassination attempt by a group of provincial English As people notice the blast and the fireworks, V takes Evey to his secret lair, which he calls "The Shadow Gallery". There, Evey tells V her life story, describing the nuclear war of the late 1980s that led to anomie, and then of the fascist coup d'état in which her father became a political prisoner. Anomie, in contemporary English language is a sociological term that signifies in individuals an erosion diminution or absence of personal norms standards or values A new government under the name of the old has risen.

Investigation of V's bombing is assigned to Eric Finch, head of "The Nose" (the name by which the regular police are commonly known) and an experienced investigator who serves the government out of a love of order rather than political conviction. Through him are met other figures in the Party, including the Leader, Adam James Susan, a recluse who is fixated on the police state's computer system "Fate"; Commander Derek Almond, the leader of "The Finger", the secret police; Rose, Almond's emotionally and physically abused wife; Dominic Stone, Finch's partner; Conrad Heyer, head of "The Eye", the visual surveillance branch; Helen, Heyer's extremely ambitious and ruthless wife; Brian Etheridge, head of "The Ear", the audio surveillance branch and Roger Dascomb, in charge of "The Mouth", the branch in charge of broadcasting propaganda. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people

V next blows up the Old Bailey after pretending that he and the Madame Justice statue on the Old Bailey are conversing (which begins with V politely saying hello to Justice, and ends with him giving her a present with a bomb in it and calling her a whore, saying he has met a new woman named Madame Anarchy) and confronts three Party figures to accuse them of past crimes: Lewis Prothero, the propaganda broadcaster who serves as the "Voice of Fate"; Bishop Anthony Lilliman, a paedophile who represents the Party in the clergy and Delia Surridge, a seemingly apolitical doctor who had a personal relationship with Finch. The Central Criminal Court in England, commonly known as the Old Bailey, is a court Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people V attacks each of them in an ironic fashion, derived from previous encounters. Prothero is driven to insanity after V destroys his collection of priceless dolls in a reproduced death camp oven while having Prothero dressed up in a Commander's uniform (Prothero was Commander of Larkhill); Lilliman is killed by being forced to consume a cyanide-laced communion wafer just as he is about to rape Evey dressed up in a little girl costume (Lilliman was a priest who was hired to give spiritual support to camp prisoners taking the Batch 5 drug) and Dr. Surridge dies from a lethal injection (she was the doctor in charge of criminal medical experiments at the camp and who had studied V) -- however, as she was the only worker at Larkhill that expressed remorse for her actions, the injection and her death are painless. Upon leaving Delia's home, V is surprised by Derek Almond, who was warned by Finch that V was after Surridge and tries to capture him. Unfortunately for Almond, he had forgotten to reload his gun after having cleaned it earlier that same night, and he is quickly killed by V.

Finch begins his research upon his discovery of Dr. Surridge's diary. It reveals that all three victims were officers at the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, and that over the previous years, every other staff member from the camp has died, apparently killed by V -- the vendetta of the title. Larkhill ( is a village in Wiltshire, England, on the edge of Salisbury Plain. A feud (ˈfjuːd (referred to in more extreme cases as a blood feud or vendetta) is a long-running argument or fight between parties&mdashoften through Guilt Finch later discovers that this apparent "vendetta" served as a diversion from the true cause of action. V, the only prisoner to have survived the death camp, chose to eliminate its surviving officers to prevent the government from discovering his true identity. It could also be said that they were killed as retribution for the prisoners' pain and death due to the Larkhill officers' adherence to the fascist administration. With no records of his real name or personage existing, V can operate covertly. All that is known to the reader is that he was subjected to medical experiments involving hormonal injections of a substance called "Batch 5", which presumably triggered V's transformation into an obsessive and brilliant (though possibly psychotic) avenger.

Four months later (February 23, 1998), V breaks into Jordan Tower, the broadcast centre for the Party, to broadcast an anarchist speech that calls on the people to take charge of their own lives. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) He escapes by tying up Dascombe, placing a copy of V's own costume and mask on him, and standing him up in the control room where he is shot by police who storm the room. Eric Finch, in going over the crime scene, is provoked by and punches Peter Creedy, a petty criminal promoted to Head of the Finger after Almond's death, for a personal remark related to Delia Surridge (with whom Finch was romantically involved) and is sent by The Leader on a forced vacation.

Evey has developed a strong attachment to V, but he has begun to challenge her morality. After a confrontation in the Shadow Gallery, she finds herself abandoned on a street, unable to find V. She is taken in by Gordon Deitrich, a petty criminal with whom she becomes romantically involved, and they cross paths unknowingly with Derek Almond's widow Rose; after the deaths of her husband and Dascombe (with whom she had been forced by circumstances into having a relationship with), Rose is forced to work as a burlesque dancer, and consequently develops a strong hatred for the Party. Creedy begins organizing a private militia, hoping to use V's destabilization of the Party to mount a coup against the Leader. V, maintaining surveillance on all of these various factions, appears to be manipulating them against each other.

When Gordon is murdered by Scottish gangster Alistair Harper, whom he was dealing with, Evey attempts to kill Harper in revenge but is seized, arrested, detained, and accused of attempting to murder Peter Creedy as he was meeting with Harper. In her cell between multiple bouts of interrogation and torture, Evey finds a letter from an inmate named Valerie, an actress who was imprisoned for being a lesbian. Evey's interrogator finally gives her a choice of collaboration or death; inspired by Valerie's courage and quiet defiance, she refuses to give in and is told that she is free. To her shock, Evey learns that her imprisonment was a hoax constructed by V, designed to put her through an ordeal similar to the one that shaped him. He reveals that Valerie was another Larkhill prisoner who died in the cell next to his; the letter that Evey read is the same one that Valerie had passed on to V to read. Evey's anger finally gives way to acceptance of her identity and freedom.

November 1998. V destroys the Party's communication and surveillance centres (housed in Jordan Tower and the Post Office Tower), causing the death of Etheridge, effectively shutting down both The Eye and The Ear and spurring a wave of wanton violence and hedonism which is violently suppressed by Creedy and Harper's street gangs. The BT Tower is a tall cylindrical building in London, England. Meanwhile, V notes to Evey that this is not The Land of Do-As-You-Please end result he wants but rather the mere chaos in The Land of Take What You Want — an interim period that he intends to follow up with the establishment of true anarchy, a voluntarily orderly society. Chaos (derived from the Ancient Greek, Chaos) typically refers to Unpredictability, and is the antithesis of Cosmos. Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i Finch's assistant Dominic realizes that V has had access to the Fate computer since the very beginning, explaining his foresight; this news accelerates the mental collapse of the Leader.

Finch travels to the abandoned site of Larkhill, on the Wiltshire Downs, where he takes LSD. Etymology The county formerly 'Wiltonshire' or 'Wiltunscir' (9th century is named after the former county town of Wilton (itself named after the River Wylye His hallucinations lead him to an intuitive understanding of V, and returning to London, he deduces that V is hidden somewhere in Victoria Station, part of the abandoned London Underground, and goes to find him. A hallucination, in the broadest sense is a Perception in the absence of a stimulus. London Victoria is a major London Underground, National Rail and Coach station in the City of Westminster. The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire V, who knows his time has come to an end, confronts Finch and lets Finch shoot him. The bleeding V returns to the Shadow Gallery and dies in Evey's arms. Evey considers unmasking V, but decides not to learn his identity; instead, she assumes it, donning one of his spare costumes. Meanwhile, Rose Almond's private vendetta has led her to assassinate the Leader and she is last seen being violently arrested by the Finger. In the ensuing chaos, Creedy's own men kill him, while Finch reports the news that V is dead. When Evey appears to the crowd as V, a general insurrection begins. An insurgency is a violent internal uprising against a sovereign government that lacks the organization of a revolution

Evey completes V's final act of subversion. As requested by V, she performs the destruction of 10 Downing Street by giving her mentor a "Viking funeral" with an explosive-laden Underground carriage containing his body sent to detonate at the desired location. The Vikings often cremated their dead in Ship burials known from archaeology Sagas Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad She rescues Dominic from the mob and takes him back to the Shadow Gallery, implying that she intends to train him as her successor, having vowed to help the people to create the society the original V dreamed of creating. Having removed the totalitarian old regime, there is no longer a need for destruction. Finch observes the chaos raging in the city before heading to the countryside. All forms of authority in Britain are now gone; its future is left uncertain. Thus, V has created chaos, which will allow voluntary order to occur. It is to be assumed that Evey will do her best to prevent another fascist government from arising from this order.

Characters

Major characters

• V: A romantic, charismatic, anarchistic, revolutionary and classical Byronic hero, well-versed in the arts of explosives, subterfuge, computer hacking and others. V is a Fictional character from the Comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The Byronic hero is an idealized but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb He also has a vast literary, cultural and philosophical intelligence. V is the only survivor of an experiment in which four dozen prisoners were given injections of a pituarin/pinearin compound called "Batch 5". The compound caused vast cellular anomalies that eventually killed all of the subjects except V, on whom many people believe granted him enhanced strength, reflexes, endurance and pain tolerance. But there is no comment on this in the book. V maintains that he is just a man. Although Dr. Surridge believes V was driven insane by the injection, the possibility that feigning insanity to some degree was the first step in V's plan for freedom is left open. Throughout the novel V almost always wears his trademark Guy Fawkes mask, a shoulder-length wig of straight dark-brown hair and an outfit consisting of black gloves, tunic, trousers and boots. Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606) sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English When not wearing the mask, his face is not shown. When outside the Shadow Gallery, he completes this ensemble with a circa-1600's conical hat and floor-length cloak. His weapons of choice include daggers, explosives and tear gas. He is supposed to have taken his name from the Roman numeral "V", the number of the room he was held in during the experiment. This is the main explanation of the origin of his name, as it is stated in the book. However, other theories may explain his nom de guerre. For instance, there is a clear echo in his name of the rallying cry used by Winston Churchill in the struggle of the Allies in World War II to overcome the Axis fascist alliance: "V for Victory!". Here it is simply transformed into "V for Vendetta". It should also be noticed that the V within a circle is merely an upside-down anarchy sign without the slash marking an A symbol. At the end of the book, V lets Chief Inspector Eric Finch shoot him and V dies in Evey's arms. Evey then assumes V's identity and gives V himself a Viking funeral by placing V inside a bomb-laden train whose eventual destination is 10 Downing Street. V is the only character whose speech bubbles look "distorted and twisted", instead of being perfectly oval, possibly to show that the mask distorts his voice. Whenever V quotes another author, the quotation marks are perfectly visible.

• Evey Hammond: The main character of the story, a teenage girl who is saved by V from the "Fingermen". Evey Hammond is a Fictional character in the V for Vendetta Comic book series (created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd She is taken under V's wing, learns of his past, his current battle against the government and eventually becomes his successor, as well as finding a future successor in Chief Inspector Eric Finch's partner, Dominic Stone.

• Eric Finch: Chief of New Scotland Yard and Minister of Investigations, which has become the "Nose", Finch is a pragmatist who sides with the government because he would rather serve in a world of order than one of chaos. He is nevertheless honorable and decent, and trusted by the Leader because he is reliable and without ambition. He eventually achieves his own catharsis and self-knowledge, expressing sorrow over his complicity with Norsefire's atrocities; nevertheless, he is the one who kills V. He is at one point referred to as Edward Finch (an error on the part of Helen Heyer).

Minor characters

• Adam J. Susan: Also known as "The Leader", he is the dictator of the fascist party that now rules Britain, and is also racist and homophobic. Adam James Susan is a Fictional character in the Comic book series (later Susan is in love with the Fate computer system and prefers its companionship to that of women. Susan, as his own mind slips, also expresses a solipsist belief that the only existing beings are him and 'God' (referring to the Fate computer). Solipsism ( Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self is the philosophical idea that "My mind is the only thing that I know exists Susan does apparently care about his people deep down inside - he is about to shake Rose Almond's hand when she blows half of his head off, killing him, before she is taken away and presumably executed by the Finger. In the movie version of the comics, he is renamed "Adam Sutler".

• Gordon Deitrich: He is a petty criminal specializing in bootlegging who harbors Evey Hammond. Evey Hammond is a Fictional character in the V for Vendetta Comic book series (created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd He is murdered by Alistair Harper, a ruthless gangster who is trying to expand Scotland's organized crime syndicate into London. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. "Crime syndicate" redirects here For the DC Comics group of villains see Crime Syndicate. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

• Lewis Prothero: He was the Commander of "Larkhill", the concentration camp that once held V. Later, he becomes "The Voice of Fate", the government radio broadcaster who daily transmits "information" to the public. He is driven insane by a combination of an overdose of Batch 5 drugs and the shock of seeing his prized doll collection burned in a mock recreation of Camp Larkhill. Larkhill ( is a village in Wiltshire, England, on the edge of Salisbury Plain. He remains incapacitated for the rest of the story.

• Bishop Anthony Lilliman: As the voice of the Party in the Church, Lilliman is a corrupt churchman given to paedophilia and embezzlement. The term pedophilia or paedophilia has a range of definitions as found in Psychology, law enforcement and the popular vernacular Embezzlement is the act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting assets usually financial in nature by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted Like Prothero, he worked at Larkhill before being given a higher employment by the state. Lilliman was a priest who was hired to give spiritual support to the prisoners being given Batch 5 drugs. He is killed after he almost rapes Evey Hammond (who is dressed up as a young girl) when V forces him to take communion with a cyanide-laced wafer. The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names is a Christian Sacrament by which in a common interpretation those A cyanide is any Chemical compound that contains the cyano group (C≡N which consists of a Carbon Atom triple-bonded to a

• Delia Surridge: Repentant Larkhill camp doctor whom V nevertheless kills by lethal, albeit painless injection. Because of the government's destroying of all files about Larkhill and V's vendetta, Surridge is also insinuated to be the only person from Larkhill who remembers V's true identity.

• Derek Almond: High-ranking official of the Norsefire government. Norsefire is the fictional fascist Political party ruling the United Kingdom in Alan Moore and David Lloyd 's V for He ran the government's secret police, known as the Finger, before he was killed by the novel's protagonist, V. Secret police (sometimes political police) are a Police agency which operates in Secrecy to maintain National security against internal V is a Fictional character from the Comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Almond was replaced by Peter Creedy. While Almond himself did not figure heavily in the story, his death sets in motion one of the novel's major story arcs; that of his widow, Rose, who is left penniless and traumatized by the loss of her husband, who was cold and abusive toward her but whom she nevertheless loved. In her grief and desperation, she blames her plight on Norsefire's leader, Adam Susan, and assassinates him at the novel's climax. AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. The climax (from the Greek word “κλῖμαξ” ( klimax) meaning “staircase” and “ladder” or turning point of a Narrative

• Rose Almond: The abused wife of Derek Almond, the head of the Finger who hunted for V following the destruction of the Old Bailey and the murder of Dr. Delia Surridge. When he too is murdered, Rose becomes depressed and turns to Roger Dascombe (the broadcaster) for company. She is forced to become a showgirl dancer as a means of supporting herself after Dascombe's death at the hands of V. After V shuts down the surveillance systems, she uses the opportunity to buy a gun and then uses it to assassinate Adam J. Susan.

• Helen Heyer: The ruthless, scheming wife of Conrad Heyer. She uses sex (or rather the lack thereof where her husband is concerned) and her superior intellect to keep Heyer (for whom she feels nothing but contempt and only sees as a means to an end) in line, and to further her own goal of ultimately controlling the country after Conrad becomes Leader. Ultimately, her master plan collapses and she is last seen offering herself (or rather her body) in exchange for protection and food to a semi-drunken gang after being rejected by Finch (whom she hoped would join her in taking over what was left of the Party after her husband, Peter Creedy and Alistair Harper are all killed) and after anarchy has spilled into London.

• Peter Creedy: A self-centered, ambitious and weak man who replaces Derek Almond as Security Minister of "the Finger" after the latter's death. His ambition is to replace the weakening Susan as Leader, but as part of Mrs. Heyer's plot, he is killed by Alistair Harper's thugs shortly after seizing power.

• Conrad Heyer: In charge of the "Eye", the agency that controls the country's CCTV system. He is subservient to his wife Helen, and she intends for him to become leader, leaving her as the power behind the throne. In the end, V sends Conrad a videotape of Helen being unfaithful and he snaps, killing her lover Alistair Harper but sustaining a fatal wound from Harper's straight-edge razor in the process. When Helen learns what he has done, she is enraged at the destruction of her plans and leaves him to bleed to death, setting up a video camera connected to their TV so that he can watch himself die.

• Dominic Stone: Younger policeman who is Inspector Finch's assistant. Dominic is the one who figures out the connection between V and the former Larkhill camp staff and V's hacking into the "Fate" computer system. At the end, Dominic is rescued from a mob by Evey and recruited to be her apprentice now that she is V - much as V did with her.

• Valerie Page: A critically acclaimed actress who was imprisoned at Larkhill when the government found out she was a lesbian. Valerie Page is a fictional character from the Comic book series (later republished as a Graphic novel) V for Vendetta. Her tragic fate at the hands of the regime motivated V to become a freedom fighter and revolutionary, or so he says.

• Roger Dascombe: The technical supervisor for The Party's media division and the Propaganda Minister of "the Mouth". During V's elaborate attack on Jordan Tower, he is set up as a dummy "V" and killed by the police whilst the real V makes his escape.

• Alistair Harper: Scottish organized crime leader who kills Evey's lover Gordon. Initially he and some of his men are hired by Creedy to temporarily bolster the police force after V destroyed the government's surveillance equipment, but Helen Heyer recruits him to her side to ensure Creedy's downfall by offering to place him in charge of the Finger after Conrad comes to power. Temporarily becomes Helen's lover. After Creedy's takeover, Harper fulfils his end of the bargain with Helen and kills Creedy with a straight razor. He is himself beaten to death by Conrad Heyer, but inflicts a fatal wound on him in the process.

Themes

The series was Moore's first use of the densely detailed narrative and multiple plot lines that would feature heavily in Watchmen. Watchmen is a twelve-issue Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins Panel backgrounds are often crammed with clues and red herrings; literary allusions and wordplay are prominent in the chapter titles and in V's speech (which almost always takes the form of iambic pentameter, a poetic meter reliant on five pairs of syllables, the second syllable of each pair being more stressed than the first; its most famous usage has been in the many works of Shakespeare). In Literature, a red herring is a narrative element intended to distract the reader from a more important event in the plot usually a Twist ending. Iambic pentameter is a type of meter that is used in Poetry and Drama. William Shakespeare ( baptised

The structure of the book has several direct parallels with Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera: the Shadow Gallery doubles for the Phantom's Lair, and Evey's abduction and re-education mirrors Christine Daae's. Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 6 May, 1868, Paris France &ndash 15 April, 1927) was a French Journalist The Phantom of the Opera (in French, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a French Novel by Gaston Leroux. Christine Daae is the main female character in Gaston Leroux 's novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910 the young singer with whom the main character

V reads Evey to sleep with The Magic Faraway Tree. The Faraway Tree series is a series of popular novels for children by Enid Blyton. This series is the source of "The Land of Do-As-You-Please" and "The Land of Take-What-You-Want" alluded to throughout the series.

Anarchism versus fascism

The two conflicting political viewpoints of anarchism and fascism permeate the story. Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology ^[5] The Norsefire regime shares every facet of fascist ideology: it is highly xenophobic, rules the nation through both fear and force, and worships strong leadership (e. Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries Might makes right is an Aphorism with several potential meanings (in order of increasing complexity In English, the phrase is most often used g. the führerprinzip). The, German for "leader principle" prescribes a system with a hierarchy of leaders that resembles a military structure As in most fascist regimes, there are several different types of state organisations which engage in power struggles with each other yet obey the same leader.

The fascist regime embraces total corporatism. Historically corporatism (corporativismo refers to a political or Economic system in which power is held by civic assemblies that represent Economic An important aspect of corporatism is the total identification of society with state, and to think of society as a body where the different institutions are organs. This is reflected by institutions named after parts of the body: the detective branch of the police is The Nose; the surveillance organizations are The Ear and The Eye; the uniform branch of the police is The Finger (and those who work for them are called Fingermen); and the state-controlled media is known as The Mouth. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police

In creating this system of control, Moore provocatively evokes mainstream English political thought, namely Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, which imagined the state as one vast corporate gestalt, with its legitimacy founded on the need to maintain order and prevent indiscriminate violence (as was hinted at in the Norsefire backstory). Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588died 4 December 1679 was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation Leviathan or The Matter Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas The sovereign formed the natural 'head' of the society, which perhaps explains the anatomical nomenclature of the various arms of state government.

To keep this body healthy, fascist ideology prescribes cleansing it of unhealthy elements (i. e. the motto Strength Through Purity), thus, the totalitarianism and concentration camps. Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a concept used to describe Political systems where a State regulates nearly every aspect of public and private Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial In issue #5 (see below), Delia Surridge recapitulates the Milgram experiment as explanation of why ordinary people, such as she, engage in such obedience. V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Comic book The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of Social psychology Experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram The connection to Anglican Christianity and Purity Through Faith is a typical feature of clerical fascism in Roman Catholic countries (i. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs Clerical fascism is an ideological construct that combines the political and economic doctrines of Fascism with Theology or religious tradition e. southern France of the Vichy regime 1940-44, Spain under Francisco Franco 1939-75, the Independent State of Croatia under Ante Pavelić 1941-45, and Austria under Dollfuss and Schuschnigg 1933-38); such a form has taken hold specifically in England where, in reality, the Church of England (The Anglican Church) is 'established' with the Queen at its head and the state. Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944 Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (born December 4, 1892 in Ferrol, died November 20, 1975 in Madrid Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg ( December 14, 1897 - November 18, 1977) was an Austrian Politician who in 1934 succeeded the assassinated England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican This explains why, in story continuity, violent anti-Norsefire rebellion engulfs the non-Anglican parts of the United Kingdom (e. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs g. Scotland). Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

The anarchism proposed by V is classic and built specifically around the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin, who is often associated with the idea that the old society has to be torn down before a new one can be built upon its ruins. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin ( - July 1 1876) was a well-known Russian Revolutionary and theorist of Collectivist anarchism. In issue #2, V has a fictional dialogue with Madame Justice and concludes that anarchy has taught him that "justice is meaningless without freedom", a phrase which closely parallels similar statements by Bakunin:

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Freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice and Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality. [6]

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Several anarchist (or similar) traits encountered are related to 1960s counterculture. V's tactic of humiliating and ridiculing the fascist regime to destabilize it is like the ideas of the Situationists. The Situationist International ( SI) was a small group of international political and artistic Agitators with roots in Marxism, Lettrism and the In issue #8, the phase between fascism and anarchy is called Verwirrung, a German word meaning "confusion", but used here as reference to The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Book One of the trilogy is so titled). The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson purportedly between 1969 and 1971 It also may be a direct reference to Discordian philosophy in general, as many other aspects of the series (chaos, the creative arts, anarchism, and the obsession with the number "5") draw similar parallels. Discordianism is a modern Religion centered on the idea that Chaos is as important as order. An aspect of 1960s counterculture was the idea that domestic partnership and its legal forms can constitute a power imbalance between two people where one controls and dominates the other. A domestic partnership is a legal or Personal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are neither joined by a traditional This is exemplified by the relationships of Mr. and Mrs. Almond as well as Mr. and Mrs. Heyer, but this aspect is not developed theoretically. When Mr. Finch eventually uses LSD to clear his mind and uncover V's hideout, this is probably a reference to Timothy Leary who repeatedly claimed that this particular drug could be used for loosening stiff thinking in general. Timothy Francis Leary ( October 22, 1920 &ndash May 31, 1996) was an American Writer, Psychologist, Futurist

Identity

V himself is something of an enigma whose history is only hinted at. The bulk of the story is told from the viewpoints of other characters: V's admirer and apprentice Evey, a sixteen-year-old factory worker; Eric Finch, a world-weary and pragmatic policeman who is hunting V; and several contenders for power within the fascist party. Evey Hammond is a Fictional character in the V for Vendetta Comic book series (created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd V's destructive acts are morally ambiguous, and a central theme of the series is the rationalisation of atrocities in the name of a higher goal, whether it is stability or freedom. The character is a mixture of an actual advocate of anarchism and the traditional stereotype of the anarchist as a terrorist.

Moore stated in an interview:

. . . the central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history. ^[7]

Moore has never clarified who V supposedly was, beyond stating that V is not Evey's father; he does point out that V's identity is never revealed in the book. The ambiguity of the V character is a running theme through the work; it is left for the reader to determine for himself whether V is sane or psychotic, hero or villain. Before donning the Guy Fawkes mask herself, Evey comes to the conclusion that V's identity is unimportant compared to the role he plays, making his identity itself the idea he embodies.

This lack of personification through a fixed identity has also been construed as a way of creating an "Everyman" character, reinforcing the examples of personal responsibility taken throughout the book. This "Everyman" character is further illustrated through the use of Evey, a young, insecure, uneducated person, slowly evolving into "V".

Number 5 and letter V

There are numerous references throughout V for Vendetta (both potentially intentional or unintentional) to the number 5 and letter V, which is itself "5" in Roman numerals:

• Valerie's letter has 5 pages. This article discusses the number five. For the year 5 AD see 5. V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː Roman numerals are a Numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals.

• The title "V for Vendetta" contains 5 syllables.

• The title of each chapter begins with the letter V.

• The character V is seen reading and quoting from Thomas Pynchon's novel, V.

• Beethoven's fifth symphony is used by V and noted for the prominent use of three short notes and one long, which is the Morse Code identifier for the letter V (this code was used as a call sign by the BBC during World War II, most famously in the sense of V for Victory). Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr (born May 8 1937 is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of Fiction. V is the debut Novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. Ludwig van Beethoven 's Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 was written in 1804–08 Morse code is a Character encoding for transmitting telegraphic information using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters numerals

• Evey's name is composed of "E" (the fifth letter of the alphabet), "V" (5 in Roman numerals, and the fifth letter from the end of the alphabet), and "Y" (25th letter of the alphabet, or 5 squared).

• The woman who dies in the cell next to that of V at Larkhill is named Valerie Page. Larkhill ( is a village in Wiltshire, England, on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

• V leaves a violet carson after he kills someone. Violet Carson is a Rose Cultivar, an uncommon hybrid of the Mme Leon Cuny and Spartan varieties created between 1963 and 1964

• V is eventually identified as the prisoner from Room 5 at Larkhill Internment Camp. The five doors are labeled with Roman numerals, so Room 5 is emblazoned with a "V".

• Valerie's room number at Larkhill Internment Camp was 4, in Roman numerals "IV", which is also the phonetic form of Evey.

• V's hideout is accessed from the closed Victoria tube station, the damaged sign of which resembles a sideways V when Finch locates it.

• V's personal motto consists of the Latin phrase Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe), which in turn consists of five words that begin with the letter V - V mentions the origin of the phrase is Faust. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's Faust is a tragic play. It was published in two parts de Faust der Tragödie erster Teil (translated

• Guy Fawkes Day happens on November 5. Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night, Cracker Night, Fireworks Night) is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November November is also the only month in the Gregorian calendar with the letter V in it.

• As Evey appears to give her speech to the public after she has assumed the identity of V, the visual angle of the frame causes a V to be formed between the edges of the building she is standing on and the building behind her.

• The government consists of the five branches which are identified with the five senses.

• At Larkhill, V is injected with Batch "5".

• V's last word, at the end of the series, starts with a V.

• Much of V's dialogue is in Iambic Pentameter. Iambic pentameter is a type of meter that is used in Poetry and Drama.

Adaptations

Music

David J of the band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, who has collaborated with Moore on other projects, recorded a version of V's song This Vicious Cabaret and other music inspired by the book, which appeared on an EP titled V for Vendetta. David J Haskins (b April 24, 1957, in Northampton, England) better known as David J, is a British Alternative rock Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978 Love and Rockets are an Alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash ( Guitars Saxophone, and vocals V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Comic book An extended play ( EP) is a Vinyl record, CD, or Music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify According to David, Moore proposed the idea for him to compose music for a set of lyrics that made up an entire chapter of the novel. Within an hour of receiving the lyrics, David had composed the music for the entire chapter.

Pop Will Eat Itself also included several references to V for Vendetta on their 1989 album This is the Day. Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham . . This is the Hour. . . This is This! - the song Can U Dig It? includes the lyric "we dig V for Vendetta" and the chorus finishes with the line "Alan Moore knows the score". Another track, The Fuses Have Been Lit, includes references to "the voice of Fate" and "The Land of Do-As-You-Please".

The progressive metal band, Shadow Gallery took its name from V's hideout, as admitted in their website's FAQ. Progressive metal (often referred to simply as prog metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music which blends the powerful guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex The Shadow Gallery is also the name of the home of the protagonist in the graphic novel V for Vendetta. They also have an album named Room V, another obvious reference. Room V is the fifth Album by the Progressive metal group Shadow Gallery, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music)

Progressive nineties Brit-pop band Jocasta wrote the song "The Land of Do-As-You-Please" on their 1997 album release, "No Coincidence," released by Epic/VP music. Jocasta were Tim Arnold (Vocals Guitar and Piano Jack Reynolds (Lead Guitar Adrian Meehan (Drums and Andy Lewis (Bass Referenced throughout the song is V's television speech to the British population, and the book he reads to Evey.

The Spanish metal and hip hop band Def Con Dos has a song titled "V de Vendetta" included in their 1991 album "Tercer Asalto".

7th Son, a Las Vegas based metal band, wrote a song called "V" or "V for Vendetta" and used to have an alternate logo that was an adaptation of a V for Vendetta movie poster.

Now-defunct Raleigh, NC based punk band The Trepanators had a song called "V", whose lyrics were mostly comprised of the famous nursery rhyme repeated throughout the graphic novel and film ("Remember, remember, the fifth of November. . . ").

British rock band Vicious Cabaret took its name from V's song This Vicious Cabaret. Vicious Cabaret is a British rock band Featuring former Johnny Zhivago singer/guitarist Steve Maloney, the band came together in Leeds England in 2004 V for Vendetta is a ten-issue Comic book

Theatre

The Swedish production company Stockholms Blodbad staged a live theatrical adaptation of the graphic novel in 2000 under the title Landet där man gör som man vill, which translates into The Land where you do as you please.

Film

The first adaptation of V for Vendetta ever filmed for the screen is one of the scenes in the documentary feature film The Mindscape of Alan Moore and was shot in early 2002. The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a 2003 feature documentary which chronicles the life and work of Alan Moore, author of several acclaimed Graphic The dramatization contains no dialogue by the main character, while the Voice of Fate is used as an introduction.

Main article: V for Vendetta (film)

A film adaptation was released on 17 March 2006, directed by James McTeigue (first assistant director on The Matrix films) from a screenplay by the Wachowski brothers. V for Vendetta is a 2006 action - thriller Film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. James McTeigue is an Australian Film director. Born in Tauranga, New Zealand, he grew up in Collaroy Plateau, a suburb on the Northern Beaches The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction - martial arts - Action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski and Biography Andy and Larry Wachowski were born to a Polish-American family in Chicago. Natalie Portman stars as Evey Hammond and Hugo Weaving as V together with Stephen Rea, John Hurt and Stephen Fry. Natalie Portman (נטלי פורטמן born Natalie Hershlag June 9 1981 is an Israeli American Actress. Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960 is a Nigerian-born English, although naturalised Australian film stage and voice actor best known for films such as Stephen Rea (born Graham Rea on October 31, 1946) is an Irish Actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940 is an English Actor. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957 is an English Humorist, Writer, Wit, Actor, Novelist, filmmaker John Hurt, who played the renamed High Chancellor Adam Sutler in the film V for Vendetta, also played Winston Smith in the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940 is an English Actor. Winston Smith is a Fictional character and the Protagonist of George Orwell 's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 who used the Pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984) by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is a 1949 English Novel Originally slated for a 5 November 2005 release, to coincide with Guy Fawkes Night and the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, it was postponed until March, possibly due to the 7 July 2005 London bombings, although producers denied this was the reason. Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night, Cracker Night, Fireworks Night) is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time was a failed Assassination attempt by a group of provincial English The 7 July 2005 London bombings (also called the 7/7 bombings) were a series of coordinated bomb blasts that hit London's public transport system during ^[8]

Alan Moore, however, distanced himself from the film, as he has with every screen adaptation of his works to date. Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed He ended cooperation with his publisher, DC Comics, after its corporate parent, Warner Bros., failed to retract statements about Moore's supposed endorsement of the movie. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and ^[9] After reading the script, Moore remarked:

"[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country… It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives—which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland "^[10]

He later adds that if the Wachowskis had wanted to protest what was going on in the United States, then they should have used a political narrative that spoke directly at the USA's issues, similar to what Moore had done before with Britain. The film changes the original message by arguably having changed "V" into a freedom fighter instead of an anarchist. An interview with producer Joel Silver suggests that the change may not have been conscious; he identifies the V of the graphic novel as a clear-cut "superhero… a masked avenger who pretty much saves the world," a simplification that goes against Moore's own statements about V's role in the story. Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American Hollywood Film producer and inventor of the sport of Ultimate. ^[11]

Co-author and illustrator David Lloyd, by contrast, embraced the adaptation. ^[12] In an interview with Newsrama. com, he states: "It's a terrific film. The most extraordinary thing about it for me was seeing scenes that I'd worked on and crafted for maximum effect in the book translated to film with the same degree of care and effect. The "transformation" scene between Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving is just great. If you happen to be one of those people who admires the original so much that changes to it will automatically turn you off, then you may dislike the film—but if you enjoyed the original and can accept an adaptation that is different to its source material but equally as powerful, then you'll be as impressed as I was with it. "^[13]

A novelization of the film's screenplay was created by comic writer Steve Moore. V for Vendetta is a Novelization of the film of the same name. Steve Moore (born 11 June 1949 is a prolific British Comics writer

Collections

The entire story is collected in paperback form, ISBN 0-930289-52-8

Interviews

The DVD of the documentary feature film The Mindscape of Alan Moore contains an exclusive bonus interview with the artist David Lloyd. The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a 2003 feature documentary which chronicles the life and work of Alan Moore, author of several acclaimed Graphic David Lloyd (born 1950 is a British Comics artist best known as the Illustrator of the Graphic novel V for Vendetta, written by

Notes and references

External links

• V for Vendetta official site at DC Comics
• V for Vendetta: Comic vs. Film at IGN
• An Annotation of Literary, Historic and Artistic References in Alan Moore's Graphic Novel, V For Vendetta by Madelyn Bourdeaux

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