11:05 is also the month and day format for the fifth of November. When the group of "V"s marches, Big Ben shows the time at 11:05 p.m., creating a V on the clock face. After the battle, when V is mortally wounded, he leaves a "V" signature in his own blood. In the battle with Creedy and his men at Victoria station, V forms a "V" with his daggers just before he throws them. This movie's title is also a reference to "V for Victory". The Symphony's opening was used as a call sign in the European broadcasts of the BBC during World War II, in reference to Sir Winston Churchill's "V for Victory".
When V confronts Creedy in his house, he plays Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening notes have a rhythmic pattern that resembles the letter "V" in Morse code (.-). In a dance with Evey, the song V chooses is number five on his jukebox (if you look closely, all the songs on his jukebox are numbered "5"). The scar on Evey's forehead is in the shape of a sideways V. Learn where to find each of the Legendary Crafting Specs and what can be crafted with each. The phrase on V's mirror reads: "Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici" ("By the power of truth, I, a living man, have conquered the universe"). This is a list of Legendary Crafting Specs found in Cyberpunk 2077. V is held in Larkhill cell number "V" (Latin for five). E is the fifth letter of the alphabet and V is Latin for five (V is also the fifth letter from the end of the alphabet). V notes that Evey's name is special, pronouncing it as "E-V".
This movie uses the letter "V" and the number five as a motif, to highlight how V has become a concept: V's introductory monologue to Evey begins and ends with "V", has five sentences, and contains forty-nine words that begin with "V". All of these changes infuriated Alan Moore, who claimed that the fascist government in his work had been "defanged", and refused to have any credit for this movie. Also, the central plot of the movie, of the government targeting the population with a virus attack, is not present in the book, and while it is hinted that a nuclear war happened, the ones responsible are left unseen. Gordon Deitrich is a criminal, and Evey's lover, and he is killed by another criminal.
His aim is not liberty, but anarchy, and he is actually abusive with Evey, an illiterate sixteen-year-old prostitute in the novel. V, on the other hand, is way more violent and less selective in who he kills, often murdering innocents in the process. For instance, Chancellor Sutler (Adam Susan in the novel) is an awkward and timid man, who sincerely believes in fascism, and leaves all important decisions to F.A.T.E., a supercomputer also absent in the movie. Also, the government, while more sinister in this movie, is, at the same time, less human, with the authorities in the graphic novel being more complex. The movie omits or changes several important details in order to make V and his actions more morally appealing.