V for Vendetta

Synopsis: Feature film. Set in London in 2020 when Britain has become a Fascist state, a freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally. V quotes from Shakespeare including lines from Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Macbeth. In one scene V interrupts three policemen about to assault Evey, takes out a dagger, and quotes from the sergeant in Macbeth I ii ‘The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him’ and ‘Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel/Which smoked with bloody execution’; he later quotes again from Macbeth (I vii) ‘I dare do all that may become a man;/ Who dares do more is none’.
Language: English
Country: Germany; United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2006
Duration: 132 mins; 11,878 feet

Director

James McTeigue

Producer

Andy Wachowski; Grant Hill; Joel Silver; Larry Wachowski

Cinematographer

Adrian Biddle

Screenplay

Wachowski Brothers

Music

Dario Marianelli

Production Design

Owen Paterson

Cast

General: The comic strip version of V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd began in 1971 as Warrior, a short-lived comic of the early 1980s. James Purefoy was originally cast as V.