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.
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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. You can email me at mano'"dot'"singham"'at"'case'"dot'"edu.V for Vendetta: Jordan Tower and the Underground Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom (2009), The Achievement Gap in US Education: Canaries in the Mine (2005), and Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (2000). I am the author of three other books: God vs. My latest book THE GREAT PARADOX OF SCIENCE: Why its conclusions can be relied upon even though they cannot be proven was published by Oxford University Press in December 2019. I am a theoretical physicist and retired Director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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