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:"''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 bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. 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. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.''" -- V's introduction to Evey
There is repeated reference to the letter V (or 5 in Roman numerals) throughout the film. V is held in Larkhill cell number V. There is V's favorite phrase "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.", which translates from Latin to "By the power of truth, I, a living man, have conquered the universe.". "V", and the movie's title, are associated with the World War II slogan "[[V sign#Winston Churchill and the victory sign|V for Victory]]". When V confronts Creedy in his greenhouse, V plays the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The opening notes of the symphony were used as a call-sign in European broadcasts by the [[BBC]] during World War II, because their rhythmic pattern resembled the letter "V" in [[Morse code]] ('''···–'''). ''Vi vil vinne'' (We will win) was also a slogan of the [[Norwegian resistance movement|Norwegian Resistance]], abbreviated as "V". As well, V's openning monologue to Evey, begins and ends with V and contains 55 words beginning with V. Fifty-five is the product of 5 times 11 and the Fifth of November is the fifth day of the eleventh month.
(The red-on-black "V" symbol also resembles an inverted "A" symbol for anarchy.)
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