V For Vendetta
- Release Date
- February 23, 2006
- Director
- James McTeigue
- Cast
- Natalie Portman , Hugo Weaving , Stephen Rea , Stephen Fry , John Hurt , Tim Pigott-Smith
- Runtime
- 132
- Main Genre
- Action
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
- Writers
- Lilly Wachowski , Lana Wachowski , David Lloyd
- Tagline
- FREEDOM! FOREVER!
- Website
- http://www.vforvendetta.com/
Summary
Remember, remember The Fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a young working-class woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as “V.” Profoundly complex, V is at once literary, flamboyant, tender and intellectual, a man dedicated to freeing his fellow citizens from those who have terrorized them into compliance. He is also bitter, revenge-seeking, lonely and violent, driven by a personal vendetta. In his quest to free the people of England from the corruption and cruelty that have poisoned their government, V condemns the tyrannical nature of their appointed leaders and invites his fellow citizens to join him in the shadows of Parliament on November the 5th -- Guy Fawkes Day. On that day in 1605, Guy Fawkes was discovered in a tunnel beneath Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder. He and his co-conspirators had engineered the treasonous “Gunpowder Plot” in response to the tyranny of their government under James I. Fawkes and his fellow saboteurs were hanged, drawn and quartered, and their plan to take down their government never came to pass. In the spirit of that rebellion, in remembrance of that day, V vows to carry out the plot that Fawkes was executed for attempting on November 5th in 1605: he will blow up Parliament. As Evey uncovers the truth about V’s mysterious past, she also discovers the truth about herself -- and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to ignite a revolution, bringing freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
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