V for Vendetta Graphic Novel Question

[Randycat]

SPOILERS!!!


Just saw the movie (haven't read the book yet) and someone on another message board said V is a transexual in the graphic novel. I'm wondering if this is true?

[Thaddy-Boy]

SPOILERS!!!


Just saw the movie (haven't read the book yet) and someone on another message board said V is a transexual in the graphic novel. I'm wondering if this is true?

Been a while since I've read it, but if I recall, his genitals were removed by the government.

But I'm probably wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_For_Vendetta

[rfahey]

V was in one of the concentration camps, which were for homosexuals, religious and ethnic minorities, and other 'undesirables.' It's never explained why he was there, so it's possible that he was not heterosexual.

[BeastieRunner]

***Spoilers***






In the book, he tears out pages in the female doctors diary from Larkhill. Those might have been more information about him. But, the book never really states his background before Larkhill, but V states he doesn't remember anymore.

Once he's given a Valhallain death, Evey takes up the mantle of V but never once looks at who he was, even after toying with the idea. V was an idea and a symbol, not a person.

It really never states anything, minus the fact that the conservative's idea of "undesirables" were sent to the camp, one way or the other about his personal life before becoming V.




***End Spoilers***

[The Shadow]

(haven't read the book yet)
What are you wasting time posting here for when you should be reading V????


;)

:D

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I always assumed that V was actually Ruth, Valerie's lesbian partner, who after all the testing at Larkhill had all but changed sex.

But no it really doesn't matter who V actually was/is. V is a symbol, and an idea. Those things do not die.

For the record I love the book, and the film.

They're both brilliant, but in very different contexts and ways.

While I can wholeheartedly understand Moore's decision to distance himself from the Movie as he did (And DC full stop!) I don't think the movie is bad. It's still very powerfull, just in a different way.

And boy do we need a movie like that in the UK right now. I hope our beloved Primeminister is paying attention, somewhere.

[Winslow]

SPOILERS!!!
Just saw the movie (haven't read the book yet) and someone on another message board said V is a transexual in the graphic novel. I'm wondering if this is true?

V's indentity is a mystery.

It's possible V was a transexual, or homosexual, or a different race, or even a socialist. Any minority or "left-winger" was rounded up for execution.

Most likely V was male, since Evey thought V was her father (a socialist) at one point in the book.

[Randycat]

Hehehe, I agree. . .I better read it soon!!



What are you wasting time posting here for when you should be reading V????


;)

:D

[Ripper]

I think what Moore was saying by leaving V's identity unsolve and then by letting Evey take the mantle that V could be anyone, even the reader could be V in some way. You dont have to be male or look a certain way to be what V represents.

[starri]

Not to ape from the movie, but ultimately, V isn't a person. V is an idea.

[luricanson]

With the graphic novel still fresh in my mind, I can say without a doubt that V was male (Prothero says, "You're the man from room five" during the larkhill walkthrough and the doctor references V as a man in her diary). I also have a sneaky suspicion he was meant to be homosexual (or at least arrested for being homosexual) without anything really concrete to back it up, beyond some stereotypical behaviors.

But I agree with starri. V was meant as a metaphor, both inside and outside the story. I don't really think there ever was a real identity in mind for him, Moore's infamous comment notwithstanding.