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Essay / V for Vendetta: Novel and Film Comparison
V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Allan Moore. It's a story full of comedy with V as the protagonist who wants to fight and destroy the government and affects innocent people. The novel was later adapted into a film and directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowski brothers. The graphic novel is set in the 1990s, when the world had suffered from a nuclear war and everything was destroyed. The film was in 2020 and nowhere are we told that there was a nuclear war but that there was a revolution against the fascist government. This contrasts the book and the film. Additionally, Lewis Prothero was known as The Voice of Fate on his radio show in the novel while in the film he was known as The Voice of London but on a television show. V for Vendetta is a perfect example of multimodal adaptation. due to which there are many obvious differences that can be compared and contrasted between the book and the film. The characters in the novel underwent major changes in the film, for example the character changes of Evey and V. Evey from the novel to the film. The main difference between the book version and the film version of V for Vendetta lies in the character of Evey. There is a very big difference between the two characters. The first contrast is Evey's social situation. In the film version, she is a well-off employee of the broadcast company, which means she has social class in the film. Comparably, in the graphic novel version, Evey is a young orphan facing poverty who struggled to make ends meet and ended up becoming a prostitute, which shows two different characters. Evey's employment in the film constitutes a very important contrast between her character in the book and the film. In the book, she struggles as a factory worker whose pay wasn't enough and she needed to do something to get extra money, which led her to become a prostitute. Her actual job in the film is not clearly stated, but she worked for the British cable network and nowhere did she get into financial trouble and is forced to turn to prostitution. The second difference between this character in the movie and the book is that in the movie version, she was much less believable as a real character compared to the book version..