![]() ![]() "V for Vendetta" has been written and co-produced by the Wachowskis, Andy and Lana, whose "Matrix" movies also were about rebels holding out against a planetary system of control. The similarity may have come easily to Moore, whose graphic novel “ From Hell” was about the Ripper, and inspired a good 2001 movie by the Hughes brothers. (V seems more like Jack the Ripper, given his ability to move boldly in and out of areas the police think they control. And is: Sutler is played by John Hurt, who in fact played Winston Smith in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1984). ![]() is he a terrorist or a freedom fighter? Britain is ruled by a man named Sutler, who gives orders to his underlings from a wall-sized TV screen and seems the personification of Big Brother. Its hero plays altogether differently now, and yet, given the nature of the regime. This story was first told as a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and published in 19. But V commandeers the national television network to claim authorship of his deed. The state tries to suppress knowledge of his deeds - to spin a plausible explanation for the destruction of the Old Bailey, for example. We see a police state that hold citizens in an iron grip and yet is humiliated by a single man who seems impervious. "V for Vendetta" will follow his exploits for the next 12 months, until the night when he has vowed to strike a crushing blow against the dictatorship. ![]()
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