V for Vendetta

V For Vendetta Vital Stats

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Release date 2005

Duration 132 min

Producer(s) Jessica Alan, Grant Hill, Roberto Malerba...more

Director(s) James McTeigue...more

Writer(s) Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, David Lloyd...more

Cast Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea...more

Genre Action, Sci-Fi,

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V For Vendetta Quotes

 V:
[V enters Evey's field of vision as she walks into the Shadow Gallery, directly from the prison] Hello, Evey.
Evey Hammond:
You. It was you.
V:
[quietly] Yeah.
Evey Hammond:
[gestures behind her] That wasn't real... Is Gordon - ?
V:
I'm sorry, but Mr. Deitrich's dead. I thought they'd arrest him, but when they found a Koran in his house, they had him executed.
Evey Hammond:
[whispers] Oh God...
V:
Fortunately, I got to you before they did.
Evey Hammond:
You got to me? You did this to me? You cut my hair? You tortured me? You tortured me! Why?
V:
You said you wanted to live without fear. I wish there'd been an easier way, but there wasn't. [Evey whispers, "Oh my God...?]
V:
I know you may never forgive me... but nor will you understand how hard it was for me to do what I did. Every day I saw in myself everything you see in me now. Every day I wanted to end it, but each time you refused to give in, I knew I couldn't.
Evey Hammond:
You're *sick*! You're *evil*!
V:
*You* could've ended it, Evey, you could've given in. But you didn't. Why?
Evey Hammond:
Leave me alone! I *hate* you!
V:
That's it! See, at first I thought it was hate, too. Hate was all I knew, it built my world, it imprisoned me, taught me how to eat, how to drink, how to breathe. I thought I'd die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me... just as it happened to you.
Evey Hammond:
Shut up! I *don't* want to hear your lies!
V:
Your own father said that artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Evey Hammond:
No.
V:
What was true in that cell is just as true now. What you felt in there has nothing to do with me.
Evey Hammond:
I can't feel *anything* anymore!
V:
Don't run from it, Evey. You've been running all your life.
Evey Hammond:
[gasps] I can't... can't breathe. Asthma... asthma! When I was little... [V reaches out his hand, Evey grabs it, they fall to the ground together]
V:
Listen to me, Evey. This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it. [Evey continues sobbing]
V:
They took your parents from you. They took your brother from you. [Evey groans]
V:
They put you in a cell and took everything they could take except your life. And you believed that was all there was, didn't you? The only thing you had left was your life, but it wasn't, was it? [Evey sobs, "Oh please...?]
V:
You found something else. In that cell you found something that mattered more to you than life. It was when they threatened to kill you unless you gave them what they wanted... you told them you'd rather die. You faced your death, Evey. You were calm. You were still. [Evey continues gasping]
V:
Try to feel now what you felt then.
Evey Hammond:
[breathes heavily] Oh God... I felt...
V:
Yes?
Evey Hammond:
I'm dizzy. I need air. Please, I need to be outside.
 

 V:
[Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond:
Who are you?
V:
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond:
Well I can see that.
V:
Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond:
Oh. Right.
V:
But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
V:
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. [carves V into poster on wall]
V:
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. [giggles]
V:
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey Hammond:
Are you like a crazy person?
V:
I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking with?
Evey Hammond:
I'm Evey.
V:
Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond:
What does that mean?
V:
It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences.
 

 Evey Hammond:
What is that you're making?
Gordon Deitrich:
We call it "eggie in the basket". My mum used to make them.
Evey Hammond:
This is weird.
Gordon Deitrich:
What?
Evey Hammond:
The first morning I was with him, he made me eggs just like this.
Gordon Deitrich:
Really?
Evey Hammond:
I swear.
Gordon Deitrich:
That is a strange coincidence. Although, there's an obvious explanation.
Evey Hammond:
There is?
Gordon Deitrich:
Yes, Evey. I am V. At last you know the truth. You're stunned, I know. It's hard to believe isn't it, that beneath this wrinkled, well-fed exterior there lies a dangerous killing machine with a fetish for Fawkesian masks. Viva la revolution!
Evey Hammond:
That is *not* funny, Gordon.
Gordon Deitrich:
[sighs] Yeah, I know. I'm useless without a studio audience.
 

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 Interrogator:
I am instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that unless you are ready to offer your cooperation you are to be executed. Do you understand what I'm telling you?
Evey Hammond:
Yes.
Interrogator:
Are you ready to cooperate?
Evey Hammond:
No.
Interrogator:
Very well. Escort Ms. Hammond back to her cell. Arrange a detail of six men and take her out behind the chemical shed and shoot her.
Guard:
It's time.
Evey Hammond:
I'm ready.
Guard:
Look all they want is one little piece of information, just give them something, anything.
Evey Hammond:
Thank you, but I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds.
Guard:
Then you have no fear any more. You're completely free.
 

 Valerie:
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. Valerie.
 



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