Line #28 Fridge/VForVendetta


1	!!The Graphic Novel
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3	* When V shows Evey his rose garden for the first time, she asks if there's a rose for Mr. Susan. V replies, 'Oh no, for him I have cultivated a very ''special'' rose.' He is referring to Rosemary Almond. V was probably responsible for everything awful that happened to Rosemary including the death of her husband, the government refusing to give her widow's pension (he can hack into Fate. Who says he couldn't change those records), probably even arranging that the only job she gets is as a dancing girl. V deliberately arranged for Rosemary's life after losing her husband to be as horrible as possible, to expose to her how privileged she had been, and the lie that she had lived, as well as how truly corrupt and vile the Susan administration could be, and to give her the motivation to kill Susan. In other words, V really did cultivate a very special rose for the Leader.
4	* Evey's name is subtle foreshadowing. "E-" as a prefix means "from." Alternately, her name can be pronounced E'''v'''ey, and she [[spoiler:ends up taking up V's mantle after he dies by becoming the second V.]]
5	* One of the recurring elements of the story is that V is an exceptional person who's emerged from a transformational event. While the people involved in the camps believe it was their experiments upon him responsible, V goes out of his way to force Evey to endure something else: reading Valerie's autobiography while in a concentration camp environment. Given her reaction, it's clear that V himself considers Valerie to be his StartOfDarkness.
6	* "Ideas are Bulletproof" isn't just a [[MemeticMutation line that became popular]], it encapsulates the entire franchise. Both the film and the novel are about how you can't ''kill'' an idea, you have to defeat it with a superior idea. For all the physical actions taken, their end goal was ultimately spreading V's "idea" like a virus, which in turn overcame the "idea" that was Norsefire's fascist government. Norsefire could not counter the idea, their only method was to try and kill, torture, or maim the physical people it was in, and that in turn merely spread the idea further.
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9	* Now that Evey has taken V's mantle and chosen Dominic as the new apprentice, does that mean that she will also at one point viciously torture him in order to become ''free''? Just because she refuses to kill, that doesn't mean she refuses to do morally ambiguous things.
10	** Just after V's speech of how he was going to break the chains and let the people have a choice, we get Evey's speech how she has to 'help' her people (she disclaims leadership, but isn't that what revolutionary leaders always do?). V has set up a new leader.
11	* When [[spoiler: Evey is imprisoned by V, she mentions in her narrative having an invasive search done of her genitalia. Now, this sounds nasty but not necessarily that bad until you remember that Valerie says in her letter that she hid a pencil "inside of her", which means that in the original prison, which means they weren't doing cavity checks to that extent, so it can't even be justified for realism's sake.]]
12	** [[spoiler: Valerie's letter states the pencil is "a small one they didn't find". She ''was'' searched, they just missed the pencil stub. V was factual to the end.]]
13	* Imagine how long it took Valerie to write her life story without destroying the thin toilet paper from her camp, as well as the dedication and the despair and the need behind the act of writing it, and how difficult it must have been for V to keep it safe after he received it.
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15	!!The Movie
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17	* V seems to be conducting thin air on the rooftop after rescuing Evey before the music kicks in. The experimentation on V gave him super-human abilities so the music probably ''was'' playing but only he could hear it.
18	** Evey hears the music at the same time as the audience. This helps to establish her role as an ordinary person like us before her character development.
19	* The scene where Evey tells V that she doesn't want him to die, and he replies that that was the kindest thing she could have said to him. She had fallen in love with an idea, not a person.
20	* The shipping service in the film uses fingerprint scanners to verify the identity of its recipients is also a brilliant way to get everybody's fingerprints on file for the government's use, if they're already not on a database.
21	* From the sketch: the scene where Sutler unmasks V, only to find that the terrorist is actually himself. Brilliant because in a totalitarian system, the government is the one that's terrorizing the people. Also the fact that they both order the soldiers to open fire and end up dead.
22	** Also can be read as foreshadowing the big reveal that [[spoiler:Sutler released the St. Mary's virus on his own people.]] The Chancellor was the biggest terrorist threat in the country's history.
23	** V was a test subject at Larkhill, gaining his abilities as a side effect of those tests, making Sutler responsible for both the virus that he used as part of his rise to power ''and'' the man who brings about his downfall.
24	* Every time you see Sutler on the big screen in Norsefire HQ, his pupils are expanded to the point where his iris is a millimetre band around it.
25	* Why does V kill his targets by injecting them with poison? Simple, [[spoiler:he was experimented on in order to create the bioweapon that Norsefire used to claim power. His use of poison is his form of [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil unto evil.]]]]
26	* V's calling-card for his assassinations is the Scarlet Carson, [[spoiler: a rose specially grown by Valerie's lover for Valerie]]. Since her story was the only thing that kept [[spoiler:V (and later, Evey, although this is unrelated)]] somewhat sane [[spoiler:during V's incarceration and torture at Larkhill]], maybe the assassinations themselves are V getting his revenge for her as well as for himself.
27	* Sutler's last name, while it sounds close to [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], also sounds close to the word subtle. Kind of makes sense with [[GodwinsLaw all the interpretations]] behind Adam.
28	* High Chancellor Adam Sutler is briefly treated as a [[TheFaceless faceless]] villain, [[AGlassInTheHand breaking a glass]] in a shadowy room when something displeases him -- odd for someone who gets so much face time. However, this is the only time the camera is properly ''on him,'' present day... until he gets dragged into the street by his enforcer's secret police and shot. (For that matter, the scene that got him so mad involved a funny lookalike on the stage, sitting down to an interview before being bamboozled by an enemy.)
29	* In the intro to the enforcers of Sutler's regime, Finch looks out of place compared to the others. He's sitting slouched in his chair, his speech is borderline muttering, eyes darting, and he seems completely disinterested in what the rest of the board and Sutler have to say.
30	* The film does not cover the state of the British monarchy, whereas in the graphic novel it is mentioned that Zara Phillips is queen albeit as a puppet. In the film, Sutler's image is prominently displayed in places where one might expect the monarch, such as portraits in homes and on banknotes. It is likely that the monarchy was deposed early on in the regime to ensure that Sutler did not have anyone who could even remotely pose a threat to his rule.
31	* The robber that shouts "Anarchy in the UK" is clearly quoting the Sex Pistols song even in-universe... But the fact he ''knows'' the song and has the wit to quote it shows that the hold the Norsefire regime had on the country and its culture was never as secure as it seemed.
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35	* Finch tells his partner about the virus, he calls it the worst biological attack in the ''country's'' history. Almost 100,000 people killed. Not world history, not European history, but English history. What happened to the rest of the world?
36	* The scene where the Ears are listening to Lilliman's murder. One of them says "Children's Hour at the Abbey." Then they chuckle as they listen until they hear Lilliman calling out for help.

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