Topic > V for Vendetta: novel and film compared

V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Allan Moore. It is a story full of comedy with V as the protagonist who wants to fight and destroy the government and target innocent people. The novel was later adapted into a film, directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowski brothers. The graphic novel is set in the 1990s, in a time when the world was suffering from a nuclear war and everything was destroyed. The film was in 2020 and nowhere were we told that there was a nuclear war but that there was a revolution against the fascist government. This contrasts with the book and the film. Also, Lewis Prothero was known as The Voice of Destiny on his radio show in the novel while in the film he was known as The Voice of London but on a TV show. V for Vendetta is a perfect example of multimodal adaptation. so there are many obvious differences that can be compared and contrasted from book to film. The characters from the novel underwent major changes in the film, for example Evey and V. Evey's character changes from the novel to the film. The main difference between the book and movie versions of V for Vendetta is 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 wealthy employee of the television company, which means she has a social class in the film. Comparably, in the graphic novel version, Evey is a young orphan girl faced with poverty who struggled to make ends meet and ended up becoming a prostitute displaying two different characters. Evey's use in the film represents a very important contrast between her character in the book and the film. In the book, she struggles as a factory worker whose payment was not enough and she needed to do something to get extra money and this led her to prostitution. Her real job in the film is not clearly stated, but she worked with the British Cable Network and nowhere did she have financial problems and was forced to turn to prostitution. The second difference of this character in the movie and the book is that in the movie version, he was much less believable as a real character than in the book version.