We got some of the best publicity we ever had by the mere fact that she shaved her head. All of a sudden she had a shaved head, and everyone asked her why. All of a sudden everyone knew what V for Vendetta was, so that was pretty great. Yeah, I just rolled three cameras on it. And Jeremy [Woodhead], who was our hairdresser, is the mean guy doing it. So I did it pretty much in one take: Jeremy did the whole thing and I shot a bunch of different angles. It was great. What were some of the discussions behind the scenes about making the film version of the mask?
I got with Owen Paterson, who was the production designer, and I started updating the mask. I had pretty definite ideas about what I wanted to do, and I didn't change it that much. Most of the changes I've made were textural, like adding some texture to the mustache, or bringing the cheekbones out a little bit and making them a little higher. Because I knew depending on how I wanted him to be, I knew I was going to have to light to him in a particular way — if I wanted to make him sinister or if I wanted to make him friendly.
So that started the discussion, and then the costume designer, Sammy Sheldon, did a really good job with the final version. But you're right: People recognize the mask with the film, because film is like the true 20th-century art form. Sure, people will read the graphic novel, but I can guarantee you that millions and millions of more people will see the film. So when they drag it out again to put it into the lexicon or the vernacular of how we live our lives, it's the mask from the film.
And that's why it was appropriated by the people from the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street — or, because you have no control over what your art is, sometimes by the people who raided the Capitol. For the most part, though, people have really understood the politics of the mask and how it can empower you.
In the graphic novel, Evie ultimately inherits the mask, but the film reframes it as a case where anyone can become V. Why did you decide to change the ending? That came very late, actually. Maybe even less than a week before we shot the scene, I was drawing storyboards for it, and Lily was sitting in the office one day and we started having a discussion about how the mask represents everyone — all the characters who have populated the film.
So why not make the ending about everyone? Why does Evie have to be the only one carrying the torch? It was really powerful when we shot it, and really powerful when we put it together. Central to the movie is the question about whether V is a terrorist or a freedom fighter. When you see the mask being used today and people describing those people using it as terrorist, does that bother you? No, it doesn't bother me. What bothers me more is we never dig underneath what the morality of terrorism is.
I think that's one of the things I tried to get into in the film. The discussion about whether he's a terrorist or whether he's a freedom fighter is an age-old discussion that'll depend on what side of the political fence you sit on.
Because that can change, obviously. What I was trying to get into in the film was what drove V to do that? His scheme to blow up Parliament had a root cause in something.
Was it right? Was it wrong? That is an absolute point of view depending on who you believe. If you were making V for Vendetta today, what would it look like? The landscape in which I would set it now would be a little different, just because in the last 10 years we've moved in a direction that I couldn't imagine, politically.
I don't think anyone could have imagined where we'd end up. Trump did some things that you thought no one would ever get away with. It was kind of entertaining to watch, but also terrible to see for the country and for its standing in the world. I think that's cyclical, in a way: We haven't had a really great spate of political movies since the s.
More and more corporations own film companies, so the propensity for that to happen is negligible. You have to get through so many firewalls to make a movie now. Now, having said that, we are going through complete political upheaval, and on the backend of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement and the patriarchy slowly dying, I think we will get more political movies.
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IMDb user rating average 1 1. Prime Video Rent or Buy 4. There is Bonfire Night, a. There is also this neat little nursery rhyme, which you hear a variation of in V for Vendetta :. Meanwhile, the Fawkes mask has gone on to be adopted by the people, generally speaking. Going from a kind of toy children would wear in the decades most immediately following the Gunpowder Plot, the Fawkes mask has been adopted in the last decade-plus by protesters, hackers, political activists, and most famously the collective known as Anonymous's Project Chanology.
Anonymous began using the mask as early as but quickly helped make the mask popular during the Occupy Wall Street movement, with supporters donning the mask to quickly telegraph their protests against big banking and economic inequality. At the time of the mask's emergence into the mainstream in , Lloyd gave his approval, telling the BBC :. Well, a history lesson is all fine and good, but why should that make you care about the Fawkes mask?
November 5, marks the th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. November 5th also roughly marks five months after nationwide protests against police brutality and in support of the lives of Black Americans. November 5th is just two days after what some believe to be a definitive to election which will actually decide the fate of our country. Perhaps I bring all of this up now to remind you that this coming November 5th is an especially important one for all of the reasons and more which I cannot name.
Perhaps I bring this up because I see the Fawkes mask, without fail, at protests happening now whether they are physically on the faces of those out in the streets or whether the spirit of the mask lives on in the actions of others. Regardless, it is hard to escape just how relevant this movie and, specifically, the mask worn by V have become. It's kind of incredible, really, that a now corporate-owned piece of movie iconography has become — and remains!
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