Where the original comic was influenced by Alan Moore's fears of Thatcherite Britain becoming a repressive dictatorship, the film owes more to critics of the second Bush administration. It was adapted into a film in 2006 with Hugo Weaving as V and Natalie Portman as Evey. She is taken to his Elaborate Underground Base, and, although scared by V at first, she decides to join his campaign to bring down the Government, replacing it with an anarchist society. The fact that Guy Fawkes was arrested for trying to blow up the king has something to do with it, of course.Įvey Hammond is rescued from rapist policemen by V, and this act of kindness starts the comic. He is The Faceless throughout the comic, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask in order to conceal his true identity. Armed with extraordinary strength, intellect and reflexes, along with some home-made high explosives, he escapes from the facility that created him and sets about committing terrorist attacks against the fascist government of Britain. The title character is V, a government experiment Gone Horribly Wrong. It features several of Alan Moore's trademarks: Anarchy portrayed as a positive force, mixing fiction and historical fact and large amounts of cynicism. Starting in March, 1982, it ran for 10 issues, originally in a British anthology comic called Warrior, and later in its own comic published by DC. V for Vendetta is a comic by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
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