V for Vendetta (2005) on Netflix
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Evey Hammond works for the state television network in a Britain controlled by the Norsefire party. When the masked vigilante V rescues her from secret police, she joins his fight.
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Plot summary
Britain is a fascist state run by the Norsefire party under High Chancellor Adam Sutler, which holds power through propaganda and fear and imprisons those it deems undesirable. Evey Hammond works for the state television network; fourteen years earlier her brother died in a biological attack and her activist parents were arrested and died in prison. One evening the masked vigilante V saves her from secret police and takes her to watch him blow up the Old Bailey. The next morning, 5 November, he hijacks the network's broadcast to claim the attack and calls on the public to rise against Norsefire and gather outside Parliament on Guy Fawkes Night a year later. Evey is knocked out as he escapes, and he carries her along so she is not arrested. Chief Inspector Eric Finch is assigned to catch him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about V for Vendetta (2005)
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- Alan Moore cut himself off from the film and from his publisher DC Comics after its parent Warner Bros. refused to withdraw statements suggesting he endorsed the adaptation.
- James Purefoy played V for six weeks before quitting. Reports blamed the discomfort of wearing the mask throughout, but Purefoy later said the real reason was a disagreement over how V should be played; Hugo Weaving took over.
- For the final Westminster sequence the streets from Trafalgar Square and Whitehall to Parliament and Big Ben were shut for three nights, midnight to 5 am. It was the first time the area around 10 Downing Street had ever been closed for a film shoot.
- Because the rigid mask muffled Hugo Weaving, every line V speaks in the film was re-recorded after the shoot, with lighting and performance carrying the expression the face could not.
- The film is credited with turning the Guy Fawkes mask into the standard face of anti-establishment protest, and political groups have read the story as an allegory of government oppression, with anarchists using it to promote their beliefs.
- China's state broadcaster CCTV showed the film completely uncensored on 16 December 2012, astonishing viewers who assumed it was banned; the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said it knew of no ban.
- Showing the film cost a Russian television channel money: it was fined for what the authorities called LGBT propaganda after putting it on air.
