Is the book V for Vendetta similar to the movie?

Answer 1

Yes, the same "idea" to put across, however, there are many difference between the book and movie....

-While V is characterized as a romantic freedom fighter in the film, he is portrayed as an anarchist with questionable tendencies in the graphic novel. He neither cooks breakfast for Evey, nor is he concerned about the loss of innocent life and is instead portrayed as something bizarre.
-Evey Hammond undergoes a more drastic change in the novel than she does in the film. At the beginning of the film, she is already a confident woman with a hint of rebellion in her, whereas in the graphic novel she starts off as an insecure, desperate young woman. By the end of the graphic novel, not only does she carry out V’s plans as she does in the film, but she also clearly takes on V’s identity after his death.
-While the film portrays the Chancellor as a power hungry totalitarian figure, the graphic novel paints him as a sympathetic and troubled character.
-In the graphic novel, a global nuclear war has destroyed Continental Europe and Africa, but has spared Britain. However, Britain stands isolated, and with a nuclear winter causing famine and massive flooding, there is a real fear that a collapse of the government would lead to disaster, making V’s efforts to destroy the regime even more questionable. In contrast to this, where the government came into power as a necessity and was sustained by the apathy that society then fell into, in the film they are presented as having orchestrated their rise to power through deceit and death, manufacturing a biological weapon which they cured, securing their victory in the election.
-Norsefire in the film is largely based on present day fears of an extremist police state, whereas Norsefire in the original story is based on a fascist regime closer to that of the Nazi Party. In both stories Norsefire actively participates in the systematic elimination of racial minorities, homosexuals, and political dissidents from society. But whereas the ultra-conservative regime of tomorrow also targets Muslims, the fascist regime of yesterday is explicitly focused on the protection of racial purity. Despite playing down racial elements of the regime, the film retains the Aryan superhero Storm Saxon.
-In the graphic novel, the Chancellor is named Adam Susan, wheras in the movie he is called Adam Sutler, which is a combination of the names "Susan" and "Hitler".
-Several characters were completely omitted from the film, including Ms Almond, Harper, and Mr and Mrs Heyer.
-The computer system "Fate" is completely missing from the film. (In the original story, Fate was a Big-Brother-like computer which served as Norsefire's eyes and ears and also helped explain how V could see and hear the things he did.)
V's terrorist targets are different in the graphic novel, as he destroys The Palace of Westminster and the Old Bailey in the beginning, as well at the Post Office Tower, and destroys 10 Downing Street for the finale. Finally, whereas the film ends in a relatively peaceful overthrow, in the graphic novel there is a violent collapse of authority.
-In the film, Lewis Prothero was a radical television personality that dealt out personal opinion on a racist scale on television, inciting people to be wary of foreigners, as the "Voice of London". In the graphic novel, however, Mr. Prothero, is the "Voice of Fate" and was only broadcast on radio, leading the public to believe that his was the voice of the computer Fate.
-In the film, Evey works for the 'BTN' (British Television Network), in the novel, she is just starting work as a prostitute.
-In the novel, Gordon Deitrich is a heterosexual man who lives in a simple basic house, and has a romantic/sexual relationship with Evey. after taking her in once V has seemingly abandoned her. In the film, he is Evey's boss and superior at 'BTN', and is a closet homosexual who lives more lavishly, with a vast collection of banned works of human recreation, and displays interest in Evey to cover his own true identity, as he fears the backlash of the homophobic government, and takes Evey in immediately after her incident with Bishop Lilliman.
-Also in the graphic novel, Mr. Prothero was not killed in his home but was kidnapped by V and subjected to a reconstruction of Larkhill Detention facility and is driven incurably insane by the destruction of his vast doll collection in the same manner that prisoners were killed under his command.
-In the film, no mention is made of his dolls, and he is killed in his home, however it is possible to see some of his dolls in the sequence in the shower.

-Near the end of the film, Creedy kills Sutler and his men then fire on V. In the novel, the omitted character Rose Almond kills the Leader as he steps out of a car to speak to the public, and Mr Finch mortally wounds V in a showdown in the underground.
In the film, the rose which Valerie loved, and which V cultivated is a fictional "Scarlett Carson", wheras in the novel the rose is a Violet Carson which actually exists.
-In the film, when V is lay dead in the Underground train, he is surrounded by Scarlett Carsons, but in the novel he is surrounded by Lillies.
-In the novel, Mr Finch takes LSD whilst at Larkhill's ruins to try and understand V's thinking, and goes on a major 'trip' where he imagines himself incarcerated as V, and how it felt to be prisoned, to escape, and to be free, and where V may have gone. In the movie, he simply visits the old site.
-In the movie, there is talk of the St Mary's Virus, and it killing thousands of the population, but such a virus doesnt exist in the novel.
-In the novel, Mr Finch and Dr Surridge had an affair in the past, in the film they barely know each other.
-In the movie, V has only one type of mask, but in the novel he has more than one, including a Vaudeville clown mask.
-In the movie, when Evey is imprisoned, she only ever sees one person at a time, played by V in disguise, but in the novel, she often has several people around her, but it is later revealed that they are mannequins with speakers hanging around their necks.
-In the novel, when V takes over the televisions and the large screen in Piccadilly Circus, he talks to the public as the whole of mankind, as though mankind has been taken into an office by the boss and been given a warning and complained about, as though all human life and events are a "job" which the human race are undertaking, in the film he has a new speech with inspiration from a speech later in the novel, in which V takes over the radio and pretends to be the "Voice of Fate".

Answer 2

V for Vendetta was first written as a graphic novel which is like a very thick comic book in case you didnt know.....
but the graphic novel is very close to the movie in regards to the story line, names and character appearances, (I know that they will sometimes even change characters from men to women and vice versa). The only major differences are the sequence of events and the language, in the book, the characters talk like the British do, and it can be hard to follow at times.

I would say read it for the experience, whether you borrow it or buy it, it still paces well, I read it over a couple of evenings.

Answer 3

Take a look at the reviews on Amazon to get an idea of what the book covers. Here's a sample:
"V is for Vendetta" is a a dystopian tale of Britain under a fascist regime. In true comic book fashion, a character named "V", who wears an unsettling, always grinning, theatrical mask is setting out to topple this totalitarian empire.

Answer 4

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enggak tahu gw bila buku sama dengan filmnya. sorry! =D

all i know that the original meaning of "vendetta" is a feud between families started by the killing of a member of one family that is then avenged by a killing of a member of the other family. the term appeared in the mid-19th century italy. it came from from the latin word, "vindicta". in english, it means 'vengeance'.

Answer 5

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