V pauses at this before the news brings up the report of Prothero’s death. When Evey watches The Count of Monte Cristo with V at the Shadow Gallery, she says she liked the film, but she was sad for Mercedes because Edmond Dantes wanted revenge more than he loved her. I want to discuss the significance of g/g’ in its own post later on, so let us move on to h/h’, which is one of the most important parts of the film. Jordan Tower does not have much significance in the rest of the movie, so the reason for its salvation would seem to be to set up parallelism between Finch watching this defusing and Finch watching Evey set her bomb off. The step-parallelism implies that we are to see the BTN worker and the Chancellor as the same.Ĭoncerning the bomb at Jordan Tower, we should note that in the graphic novel, Jordan Tower is not saved: V succeeds in blowing it up. V presumably foresaw that no shots would be fired on his Fawkesian army, and, furthermore, V presumably saw a BTN worker as being in his enemy’s army, and therefore as collateral damage. Throughout the movie, V has been reshaping Finch’s worldview through Delia’s journal and through Rockwood’s testimony, and V expects the police to have changed their stance as well, especially in the absence of Sutler and Creedy. In the same way that Finch is concerned to keep Jordan Tower standing in the first panel, but is content to let Evey blow up Parliament in the second, the police operate under “shoot first ask questions later” at Jordan Tower, but go without firing a single shot in Trafalgar Square.įrom this we should surmise that V knew the change that had happened to the police. V knows this ended in bloodshed before, what does he expect to happen this time? Is V just using the citizens of London as a human body-shield so he can accomplish his own goals? To answer this question, I think we need to look at what happens to the English police over the course of the movie.įinch is the embodiment of the police in the film, and perhaps we should infer that the enlightening that happens with Finch also happens to the entire police force. Given that, what is V’s intention in sending out masks in the second panel? V is creating an army, and he has already told them to march on Trafalgar Square. When V passes around the Guy Fawkes masks in Jordan Tower, he does so for his own protection (and perhaps to satisfy his sense of humor), and I think he knows that someone else is going to be shot on his account before the Jordan Tower event is finished. The Guy Fawkes mask motif that the panels share actually raises a very concerning question. We should note the humor in another implication: V was the first person to ever use the emergency channel, and thus the only person to use the Chancellor’s channel effectively was the Chancellor’s enemy.
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When the Chancellor does the same, the movie gives the impression that not a single person heard it. The contrast between them is also obvious: when V takes over the emergency channel to talk to England, the entire country takes notice. The parallelism between V and the Chancellor’s monologues is apparent even without the rest of the parallels. Interestingly, though V went through a change too (in the movie)-namely, falling in love with Evey and questioning whether what he is doing is right (this does not happen in the graphic novel)-it does not have an effect on the plot itself.
The parallelism between the two panels reveals the changes that have happened to Evey, Inspector Finch, and the police. I’ Gordon, Ruth, Valarie, and Girl appear in crowd The foreshadowing is not haphazard but follows a step parallelism pattern:Ĭ BTN worker shot/Security Guard whimpers/”V” is gunned down V uses fancy karate gimmicksĬ’ Chancellor whimpers, shot/V is gunned down V uses fancy karate gimmicksĭ’ English Army prepares to fire on citizens, doesn’t
The events that occur when V takes over Jordan Tower and its immediate aftermath early in the movie serve as foreshadowing for what will take place in the climactic scenes in the Underground and its immediate aftermath. V for Vendetta: Jordan Tower and the Underground
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