这篇是以《V字仇杀队》的书和电影进行对比，这两者之间的主要区别有三点：不同情节的设置，人物形象的描写以及事件和事实的顺序。电影和书的改编是一个很好的想法，而适应能力不能充分地把原文的思想变成视觉呈现。 Increasingly impressive is nowadays’ films toward the great majority of audiences due to the moving plot and the skilled actors and greater and greater is the number of human beings that have felt that they do not have enjoyed enough about it just from the film, currently it seems to have formed a tendency that many films are adapted to be a book and vice versa. There is no doubt that people will have a preference to either the book or the film due to their personal feelings and their opinions toward different books or films will vary from one another. Also the opinions toward the same book or film will vary as well among different people in a way or another. Detailed speaking, some people may only have seen the film, others may only have read the book while there are few that have both seen the film and read the book at the same time, leading to their different view toward the book and the film. There is no doubt that when the adaptation is conducted between a book and a film, some differences either small or large will inevitable appear during that whole process owing to the different emphasis and understanding between the film maker and the book writer. Therefore the following will be the compare and contrast between the book and the film of “V for Vendetta” in that the film is highly compatible with the book in characters, plot and even themes, which will be elaborately discussed in the below.
Compare and Contrast: Film vs. Book “V for Vendetta”
First and foremost comes that the story in the film and in the book is based on different plots for several times. To put it more specifically, the political battle is different in the book and in the film in that the political war in the book is concerned with the Anarchy and Fascist government while the parties involved in the political war in the film are Liberalism and Neo Conservative government [2]. The engaged parties’ difference in this specific political battle will not matter much toward the whole plot development, resulting in the film maker’s paying no attention to the consistency with the book. Also, the representation of era in which the story took place is different as well with the book’s setting the background around the era of 1997 when it was confronted with the nuclear war event while the film’s backdrop being around 2020 when the main issues are environmental issues. In addition, massive destruction has been mentioned in the book and the fascist government has taken over the control as is built on the foundations of genocide. In the opposite, ultra-conservative government rule is seen in the film and human beings seem to have suffered more or less from it. The general idea in the film is based on the principles of ethically clean fascism while the book emphasizes more on the balance of terrorizing activities as have been identified among the characters.
As for the characters, the leader’s name in the book is Adam Susan and he regulates the whole kingdom England with the help of computer. However, the name of the leader in the film is Adam Sulter and he does not use any computer at all. The concrete name of the leader will make no sense toward the whole story as it is only an addressing as will not matter a lot toward the process of the whole story. As for V in the film, it is depicted as a passionate freedom rebel who will all the time pursue for freedom without taking any regard about what difficulties he is confronted with while V in the book is completely distinct and he is simply a revolutionary figure with uncertain tendencies [6]. Or maybe it can be put in another way that V in the film has been endowed with positive educational meaning while the one in the book is a neutral one or even worse a negative one. Moreover, the death of the character Prothero is different in the book and in the film and the difference is that in the book V kidnaps Prothero and then burns him while V kills him by lethal injection in the film. When focusing on the character Evey, in the book she is kept by the finger man to hideout after being saved by him while the finger man did not abducted her at all in the film, let alone taking her to hideout afterwards.
Apart from the above, in the book, Gordon, killed by Gangster, belongs to the criminal community and he has sex with Evey. But in the film, Gordon is not a criminal man but instead he is Evey’s boss. But he has no sexual relationship with Evey and he is a gay. His death in the film is that he is executed by the government for keeping Quran with him. Furthermore, death of V in the book is instant and he dies in the arms of Evey quite soon after he is shot by a character named Finch. The condition of the death of V in the film tends to be rather heroic and he was one who contains changing perceptions of people towards the government. It can be easy to understand in that just as what has been explained in the above, the character V is endowed with a more positive sense in the film when compared with that one in the book.
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