While the overall plot was the same, the difference was in the details. Evey was not a prostitute at the begining. Not a big deal, and that part didn't bother me. However, V did not take Evey to the shadow gallery after their first meeting. He let her go, and she returned to her job at the BNC, shich they added. Then, they had the V taking over the news station seen much earlyer than in the comic. That bothered me a bit, but what bothered me the most was how the handeled the scene. They butchered V's speech. Gone was the theatricality of him playing the part of God, having a meeting with humanity in his office to tell humanity that they were to be fired from the corperation that is life do to the polotical and social disasters over the course of human history. The speech in it's place, while very well written, was still quite inferior. And unnecesairy. The origional speech was perfect the way it was, and there was no reason to alter it that I can see. Many other changes were made aswell. Rose, the wife of the fingerman V killed who V manipulated into becoming the Chancelor's assasin, was gone. I personally found the way the Chancelor was killed in the comic to be far better than the way he was killed in the movie. The also completely omited the bits told from the Chancelor's perspective. While not a necesairy peice of the story, they gave a good deal of insite into the psychology of a fascist dictator and the inherent madness of one. If it had remained, it would have given an extra layer of depth to the film and would have made the Chancelor more than a two dimensional villain. The fight scene at the end of the film, while very well done, was not in the comic and was quite unnecesairy. V was killed by Finch in the comic book, and while the scene was not as exiting, it was just as deep and immotionally gripping, if not moreso. Also, they severaly cut short Finch's visit to Larkhill. In the comic, Finch went there and took some LSD, to try to understand V's obviously warped psyche. What followed was a rather bad trip on Finch's part that gave some insight into the mind of a person who's in fear of his government, and what they'll do to survive, even if that involves completely ignoring their personal moral code. In the movie, however, the trip was completely omited. They also changed the reason that England went fascist. Instead of a result of the chaos that insued due to a war between the world's super powers, it was changed to a comsperacy by the part itself to create chaos. Most of the changes, to me, seemed completely unnecesairy, and I wonder why they chose to do them in the first place. The part that they kept completely the same (with the exceptions of one or two lines) was the scene where Evey was in the jail cell, eading the letter from the woman in room four. That was one of my favorite parts of the book, so I was glad to see they kept it.
