A for Vendetta

I actually read the V for Vendetta comic books before I ever saw the movie.  Just like the article talks about, the comics and the movie have a very different feel.  Personally, I prefer the comics over the film, but I do not think it was a terrible movie.  The movie has more a Bush-era/terrorist spin on it where the comic is straighter up anarchy vs. fascism.  V wasn't as much of a hero or freedom fighter as he was painted up to be in movie either.  He wasn't really a good guy; he was more of an anti-hero.  He was more twisted and vengeful. V in the comics would kill whoever he had to in order for his plans to succeed.  Plus they changed key events in the movie, like V being killed by Creedy and his men and not by Finch.  

Evey was also a young prostitute when V finds her in the comics.  She didn't work a TV station like the movie portrayed.  Their relationship was different as well.  It was not as romanticized as the movie made it out to be, and they also left several chunks of her story out.  They failed to mention she was taken in by another character named Gordon, who she got intimately involved with after she left V for the first time.

The most though provoking part of the movie and comic was when V staged Evey's imprisonment.  This was a part that reflected the more comic book version of V.  He shows his twisted logic.  Even though putting Evey through hell was not the correct choice, V did it anyway to get the end he wanted.  He needed someone else to eventually take up his title. Evey becomes the new "V" and that is what happened at the end of the comic, where in the movie it shows everyone wearing V's mask, as a message that "everyone can be part of the revolution".