Six Degrees of V for Vendetta

•A brief biographical sketch of the director and/or writer of the screenplay. When did the writer/director live? What was his/her country of birth? Where did s/he live most of his/her life? What significant event occurred in his/her life?

•What other works influenced the artist? If the movie is based on a novel or another film you need to fully discuss this.

•What other works is the writer/director known for?

V for Vendetta

“During the preparation of the story Moore made a list of what he wanted to bring into the plot, which he reproduced in "Behind the Painted Smile":

Orwell. Huxley. Thomas Disch. Judge Dredd. Harlan Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman..” (“V for Vendetta”).

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World

The title Brave New World is an allusion to

Shakespeare’s The Tempest

V quotes from Shakeseare’s Macbeth and also from Twelfth Night (which is

subtitled “Or What You Will”)

V for Vendetta

Directed by The Wachowski brothers

The Matrix directed by The Wachowski brothers

V for Vendetta

depicts a totalitarian government controlled by

Chancellor Sutler

Star Wars depicts a totalitarian government controlled by the

evil Chancellor

Star Wars : The Legend Revealed shows the connection between Palpatine and Hitler

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V for Vendetta

V dies in a funeral pyre that is a train

At the end of Beowulf, the men send him out

to sea on a funeral pyre

Towards the end of Going Bovine, there is

a similar funeral

V for Vendetta

V and Evey represent the

“union of opposites”

V is figuratively born of fire

Evey is figuratively born of rain

V’s “birth” from Lockhorn is similar to the narrator’s “birth” after his accident in

The Gargoyle