V For Vendetta Film Techniques

Practice test essay (V for Vendetta)

1. Describe an important relationship in a text you have studied. Explain how this relationship develops a key idea.

2. Describe visual or verbal techniques used in a text you have studied. Explain how these techniques are used to convey an important message to teenagers

1. Identify the relationship

2. Identify a key idea

3. Describe how film techniques develop and build on the relationship

4. Explain how the film techniques help develop the idea through the relationship

“The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.”

It is intriguing how two people with entirely different personalities

The movie V for Vendetta uses the Scarlet Carson, an extinct rose, to symbolize and prove that ideas are bulletproof. The Scarlet Carson is believed to be a species of extinct rose; alternatively, the Scarlet Carson makes several appearances throughout the movie. V leaves a Scarlet Carson everytime he kills his targeted victim ---- officials who were involved in the concentration camp a few years ago. The use of a Scarlet Carson is to show the deep desire V wishes for vengeance and freedom. Each time V leaves the rose on his victim, an extreme close-up zoom is used to depict V’s hunger for freedom. The Scarlet Carson is believed to be extinct, but V has somehow managed to revive the extinct breed of rose. This symbolizes that V believes that even though the government prevents freedom and censors internet access to control its citizens, revolution for freedom is possible and will happen, just like he was able to plant an extinct breed of rose. The Guy Fawkes mask V wears also symbolizes the idea of freedom. As the movie flashbacks where V rises in the fire with his face burnt, V uses the mask to cover his identity, thus the V and his Guy Fawkes mask becomes an ideal, and the ideal is freedom in the country. Director McTeigue uses a long shot at the end of the film where many people wears the Guy Fawkes mask and watch the Parliament Building being destroyed. As they unmask themselves, it represents that the idea of freedom has finally been achieved. Wearing the Guy Fawkes mask, V himself, represents an idea when his identity is not revealed. As Creedy approaches V trying to shoot him, V explains that “beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.” A close up shot and low key