V for Vendetta (film)
Tagline : Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gun powder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
Cast
Natalie Portman - Evey
Hugo Weaving - V
Stephen Rea - Inspector Finch
Stephen Fry - Deitrich
John Hurt - Adam Sutler
Tim Pigott-Smith
- Creedy
Rupert Graves - Dominic
Roger Allam - Lewis Prothero
Ben
Miles - Dascomb
Sinéad Cusack - Delia Surridge
Natasha Wightman
- Valerie
John Standing - Lilliman
Eddie Marsan - Etheridge
Clive Ashborn - Guy Fawkes
Emma Field-Rayner - Guy Fawkes Lover (as Emma
Field Rayner)
V for Vendetta was filmed in London, UK and in Potsdam, Germany at Babelsberg Studios. Much of the film was shot on sound stages and indoor sets, with location work done in Berlin for three scenes: the Norsefire rally flashback, Larkhill, and Bishop Lilliman’s bedroom. The scenes that took place in the abandoned London Underground were filmed at the disused Aldwych tube station. Filming began in early March, 2005, and principal photography officially wrapped in early June of 2005. V for Vendetta is the final film shot by cinematographer Adrian Biddle, who died of a heart attack on December 7, 2005.
for Vendetta is a 2006 action-thriller film set in London, England in a near-future dystopian society. The film follows the mysterious V, a freedom fighter seeking to effect sociopolitical change while simultaneously pursuing his own violent personal vendetta. The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. V for Vendetta was directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond, Hugo Weaving as V, Stephen Rea as Inspector Finch and John Hurt as Chancellor Sutler.
The
film's release was originally scheduled for Friday, November 4, 2005 (a day before
the 400th Guy Fawkes Night), but was delayed; it opened on March 17, 2006. Alan
Moore, facing his disappointment in both From Hell and The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen, refused to view the film and subsequently distanced himself from it.
The filmmakers removed many of the anarchist themes and drug references present
in the original story and also altered the political message to be what was perceived
as more relevant to a 2006 audience.
In the near future, Britain
is ruled by a totalitarian regime called Norsefire. Evey Hammond, a young woman,
is rescued from state police by a masked vigilante known as "V". After
rescuing her, V takes Evey to a rooftop location to witness his spectacular destruction
of the Old Bailey accompanied by Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The regime explains
the incident to the public as a planned demolition, but this is shown to be a
lie when V takes over the state-run British Television Network (BTN) the next
day. He broadcasts a message urging the people of Britain to rise up against the
oppressive government on November 5 (Guy Fawkes Night); one year from that day,
when V will destroy the Houses of Parliament.
Evey, who works at the BTN, helps V to escape, but in doing so, puts herself in danger. V saves Evey by bringing her to his lair, where she is told that she must stay in hiding with him for a year. She stays for some time, but upon learning that V is killing government officials, she escapes to the home of one of her superiors, Gordon Deitrich, who is also a good friend (and, unlike in the comic, a homosexual who has hidden his true nature for fear of being arrested). However, the state police raid Gordon's home shortly afterwards, after Gordon satirized the High Chancellor in his talk show. Evey is captured as she tries to escape. She is incarcerated and tortured for days, including having her head shaved, finding solace only in notes left by another prisoner, Valerie. Evey is eventually told that she will be executed unless she reveals V's whereabouts. An exhausted Evey says she would rather die, and, surprisingly, is then released. Evey discovers that she has been in V's lair all along, and that her imprisonment was staged by V. By forcing Evey to experience what he had gone through long ago, V hoped that Evey would understand that our integrity, "the very last inch of us", can be more important than our lives.
Evey initially hates V for what he has done, but comes to realize that having faced her own death, she can now live without fear. She leaves V, promising to return before November 5.
Meanwhile, Inspector Finch,
through his investigation of V, learns how Norsefire came to power, and about
V’s origins. Fourteen years previously, Britain had suffered from war and
terrorism. The socially-conservative and openly fascist Norsefire party led a
reactionary purge to restore order; so-called enemies of the state disappeared
during the night. The country was deeply divided over the loss of freedom until
a bioterrorist attack occurred, killing about 100,000 people. The fear generated
by the attack allowed Norsefire to silence all opposition and win the next election
by a landslide. A cure for the virus was discovered soon afterwards. With the
silent consent of the people, Norsefire turned Britain into a bigoted totalitarian
republic, with their leader Adam Sutler as High Chancellor.
However, the viral catastrophe had actually been engineered by Norsefire as a plot to gain power. The virus had been engineered through deadly experimentation on "social deviants" and political dissidents at Larkhill detention center. V had been one of the prisoners, but instead of being killed by the experiments, he had gained heightened mental and physical abilities. V eventually destroyed the center and escaped, vowing to take revenge on Norsefire's regime.
As November the fifth nears, V's various schemes cause chaos in Britain and the population grows more and more intolerant and subversive towards government authority. On the eve of November 5, Evey again visits V, who shows her a train that he has filled with explosives in order to destroy Parliament through an explosion in the abandoned London Underground. He delegates the destruction of Parliament to Evey, believing that the ultimate decision should not come from him. He then leaves to meet Party leader Creedy; who, as part of an earlier agreement, has agreed to bring V the Chancellor in exchange for V's surrender. Creedy kills the Chancellor in front of V, but V does not surrender, instead killing Creedy and his men. V, mortally wounded in the fight, returns to Evey. He tells her that he had fallen in love with her, thanks her, and then dies. His body is placed upon the train with the explosives.
Evey is about to send the train down the track, when she is discovered by Inspector Finch. However, Finch, having learned much about the corruption of the Norsefire regime, allows Evey to proceed. Meanwhile, thousands of Londoners, all wearing Guy Fawkes masks, march on Parliament to watch the event. Because Creedy and the Chancellor are dead, the military stands down in the face of a civil rebellion. Parliament is destroyed by the explosion. On a nearby rooftop Evey and Finch watch the scene together, while the crowd outside remove their Guy Fawkes masks.
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