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Mar 17, 2006 · V for Vendetta: Directed by James McTeigue. With Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry. In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
Jul 31, 2020 · The future: In V for Vendetta, a lot has gone wrong very quickly, and it doesn’t seem like there’s much to be done about it.The film is set in the late 2020s, and London is now under the ...
V for Vendetta is an British-American-German 2006 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis, based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Like the graphic novel series, the film is set in an alternative future where a supremacist and neo-fascist totalitarian regime, called Norsefire, has ...
Feb 5, 2022 · V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian action film directed by James McTeigue (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by the Wachowskis. It is based...
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V for Vendetta alludes to many historical events, some of the most important being the Cold War, the conservative values of the Reagan/Thatcher era, the AIDS epidemic, and the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot. At the time when Moore was writing V for Vendetta, the Cold War was still a reality, and was, in many ways, still escalating.
The first few pages of the screenplay found here have Evey mentioning that she was born in 1997 and that the current year at the beginning of the film (when Evey first meets V) is 2019. Things can change in a final film after the screenplay is written, obviously, but the screenplay for ‘V for Vendetta’ is pretty good and if you really enjoy ...
This essay concerns the role of political affect in cinema. As a case study, I analyze the 2006 film V for Vendetta as cinematic rhetoric. Adopting a multi-modal approach that focuses on the interplay of discourse, figure, and ground, I contend that the film mobilizes viewers at a visceral level to reject a politics of apathy in favor of a politics of democratic struggle.
