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V for Vendetta is a 2006 film adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The film was directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski who also wrote the screenplay. The cast includes Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond and Hugo Weaving as V as well as Stephen Rea as Finch and John Hurt as Sutler. It is also the final film shot by noted cinematographer Adrian Biddle, who died of a heart attack on December 7, 2005.

Filmed in both London, United Kingdom and Berlin, Germany, filming started in early March 2005 in Berlin. Principal photography officially wrapped in early June of 2005. After the release date of November 5, 2005 was delayed the film opened in conventional as well as IMAX theatres on March 17, 2006.

The film is set in a futuristic London, and the story follows V, a freedom fighter, who is also on a personal vendetta, pursuing political and social changes in a dystopian society.

Synopsis

The story opens with the story of Guy Fawkes and his unsuccessful attempt to destroy the British Parliament over 400 years ago. The story then moves to the movie's present day, where government spokesman Lewis Prothero gives a speech showing England to be under the rule of a religious, fascist, and bigotted regime. There is a curfew in effect.

Evey, a young woman who breaks curfew is caught on the street by members of the secret police, known as "fingermen." They are about to rape Evey when a man dressed in black, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, intervenes by either incapacitating and killing the fingermen. After introducing himself to Evey as V, he takes her to a London rooftop to show her an event. As the clock strikes midnight of the fifth of November, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" begins playing through the city's PA system and the citizens of London go outside, astounded, to listen to the symphony. In the symphony's climax, The Old Bailey is blown up and fireworks are released.

The Norsefire regime, the futuristic totalitarian regime of Britain headed by High Chancellor Sutler, explains the destruction of The Old Bailey as a voluntary act of emergency demolition on the part of the government. The police are also dispatched to find Evey, who was identified based on closed-circuit television images showing her in the company of V.

The next day, V takes control of the state controlled British Television Network (BTN) through threatened use of a bomb. V plays a recorded message in which he declares that he was responsible for the destruction of the Old Bailey, and urges the populace to take a look at their government and rise up with him a year from today (November 5th), when he will destroy the Parliament building. Coincidentally, Evey works at the BTN. The police under Chief Inspector Eric Finch arrive at the BTN originally with the intent of arresting Evey, but ends up dealing with V instead. V is soon caught by Lt. Dominic at gunpoint, but Evey maces the officer. Evey is rendered unconscious when the officer knocks her out, who is himself knocked out by V. V takes the unconscious Evey with him.

Evey awakens in V's underground lair, which is richly stocked with works of art that he has "liberated" from the censors. He explains to her that she will need to remain with him for the next year, because even the limited information she has about him could conceivably allow the police to locate his den.

V begins killing people, starting with Lewis Prothero, the Norsefire talking head. Finch tries to deduce V's identity based on his victim selection. Finch begins to suspect a cover-up, as the victims all appear to be tied to a former detention facility, whose records are conspicuously absent from the government archives. Evey spends an indeterminate amount of time with V, learning that he has been heavily scarred in a fire. She eventually volunteers to assist V in one of his missions, apparently in order to escape. She dresses as a young girl to gain access to a bishop, making V's assault possible, but Evey runs away when V attacks the man. She hides with Gordon Dietrich, one of her former superiors at BTN, whom Evey had planned to meet before she was attacked at the beginning of the film. He shows her his collection of contraband and reveals that he is a closeted homosexual who has been forced underground by the Norsefire regime; he tells her that if his house is ever searched, the charge of harboring a fugitive will be the least of his problems, and invites her to stay.

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