I'm so glad a post like this was made. Remember remember the fifth of November, Freedom forever, England Prevails, ETC.
 
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wait, it's the fifth of November?? I can't believe I didn't notice before I read this :( 
 
but I have watched the film at least half a dozen times (and loved it!) and I've also read the graphic novel having already seen the movie (as it turns out the graphic novel varied quite drastically from the movie but it was also great) and I still love BOTH the movie and the graphic novel, at the same time! That's right...I love the story in both mediums...such a thing is unheard of but it's true. 
 
And if it weren't already so late and me so tired I would re-watch the movie and re-read the graphic novel tonight but alas...it is late and I am tired...maybe I'll read over a favorite part of mine in honor of this great day. Or I will try and memorize V's intro speech in the film, that was awesome! 
 

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  Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [laughs] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V". 

  
  

There's no question the movie screwed the pooch when it came to the ending and to no surprise Alan Moore had a cow.  It misses the point that destabilizing gov't leads to anarchy and mob without direction becomes a mindless mass that turns in on itself. So freeing people without structure is no better off than the tyranny it sought to destroy. Except now every one is defenseless...much like how Rome was sacked and the dark ages began.
 
In the graphic novel, Helen Heyer played a significant role (and doesn't exist in the movie) as the first prostitute (that doesn't look like the winner of the genetic lottery) tried to convince Finch to save her from rampaging mindless mob of men bent on raping her and all the women that engaged in allegedly "freeing England." Now a cop without a gov't, he realized that there is no order thanks to blowing the shit out of Parliament and walks down an uncertain road. Thus, showing that anarchy is Not really this utopian view that we can live without rules or structure. Also nixes that there are more good people in the world than wicked.
 
In the movie, I think they did a decent job of skimming the surface, romanticizing humanity, and focused more on discrimination and Civil Rights than showing the other side of why gov't and structure was created in the first place. V for Vendetta was for Discrimination in the way that Crash was about Racism. Visual but hollow. Still, its entertaining action done by the Matrix bros.

Such a terrible movie, yet such a great graphic novel.

I watch the movie every November 5th.