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1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) influenced V for Vendetta
Added by Media Influence Map · 29 September 2026
The evidence
Alan Moore named Orwell among his influences in "Behind the Painted Smile", his essay on writing V for Vendetta. The comic's near-future Britain is a fascist state of surveillance cameras and listening devices whose leader worships a computer, and its resistance begins, as Winston's does, with one person refusing it.
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