Continuity mistake: As V attacks all of Creedy's men with his knives, in one shot he cuts one man's neck, and blood sprays onto the man's face, but in the next shot as the man falls, his face is clean.
V for Vendetta (2005)
Plot summary
Directed by: James McTeigue
Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Rupert Graves
In the not so distant future, the United States's war on terrorism escalated hostilities to the breaking point between the US and England. England, desireing peace at any cost, restructures its government with Adam Sutler as the High Chancelor, a militaristic figure almost comparable to Hitler. England launches nuclear missles at the US, and muslim countries. The US's war on terror is ended, and Suter is soon to resign, when a biological terror attack on an elementary school in London promotes the populace to support his stay, indefinately. Muslim extremists are blamed for the attack, and all non-christian religions are banned, leading to the secretive abduction, and execution, of those deemed "different". Several years later, a misterious man in a Guy Fawks mask known only as "V" begins attacks against the corrupt government. (Reference: Guy Fawks attempted to destroy Parliment on November 5, 1605 in what's known as "The Gunpowder Treason") V announces to the public in a hijacked broadcast that he will destroy Parliment on November 5, one year from then, to instigate the overthrow of the government. He leaves the citizens of England with a parting quote: "Remember, remember, the fifth of November. The gunpowder treason and plot.
For, I see no reason why the gunpowder treason,
Should ever be forgot." He is followed by Evey Hammond, who, like V, has had her life robbed by the government. Together, they plan the breaking of the bonds of the new English Empire.
Peter Cortessis
More mistakes in V for Vendetta
Evey Hammond: I don't want you to die.
V: That is the most beautiful thing you could have ever given me.
Trivia: In the scene where Evey gets her hair cut, it was Natalie Portman's real hair they cut. They had only one shot to capture that scene, and everybody was quite nervous if the scene would turn out usable.
Question: Was any explanation ever given for why V's signature flower was changed to the Scarlet Carson for the movie when in the graphic novel it's the Violet Carson (keeping in tone with his obsession with the letter V)? It doesn't seem to serve any plot significance so I'm rather puzzled why they felt a modification was necessary.
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Answer: The Violet Carson is an uncommon rose, and the requirement to frequently require a rose in a state of perfect bloom meant that production crew were required to purchase hundreds of roses during the course of production. As such, they chose to go with a more common rose, the Grand Prix, which they renamed to the fictional Scarlet Carson to tie the name in to the original. There's also the point that the Violet Carson is named after a real person, a British actress who passed away in 1983. Her family might well not appreciate having her name prominently associated with a serial killer anti-hero in a major Hollywood movie.
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