![]() Villain characters are reshuffled and dehumanized with their motivations simplified for rooting against and the heroes are given the opposing focus. Screenwriting team “ The Wachowskis” had been writing the script since before The Matrix (1999) and worked with producer Joel Silver to reduce the scope of certain ideas to make the film more palatable. ![]() Compared to the comic book, a much larger and sophisticated beast, the film is naturally condensed. Capitalizing on the early superhero boom of the early 21st Century, the movie takes an anarchy preaching terrorist, and places him in opposition to a totalitarian government thereby molding him as a heroic freedom fighter ready to release its society from its shackles. The most audacious thing about V for Vendetta (2006) is the comic book it decides to adapt. ![]() “We’ve swept this place and you got nothing, nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy Karate gimmicks.” – Creedy Originally written for Sean Moreland's 'Comic Book Literature' class at University of Ottawa. ![]()
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