As I might have guessed from the disparities early in the story, the endings of the comic and the movie differ a good amount. I mean, the whole Viking funeral thing is still there, but the details surrounding it are entirely different. After finishing it, though, it's given me appreciation for how well the movie follows the excellent scene transitions in the comic. The domino thing was just fantastic, and the movie possibly did an even better job with that part. Also, I hate to say it, but I didn't really like V's death in the comic. Sure, having him die at the end lends a nice martyr aspect to the story, but I don't really see the practical reason for his death. I mean, Finch says himself that V was like greased lightning and the guy basically let him kill him. Even if the film's ending was pretty...well, movie-ish, it at least made more sense that it took a room full of guys with guns to take him down. Even if it did look like something out of The Matrix (c'mon, Wachowski brothers).
I did like the resolution provided for some of the other major characters, though. Evey's torture and training by V are much better explained by comic because we can see that V was training Evey to succeed him. The movie instead chooses to pursue a pseudo-love story, and that seems artificial and unrealistic. I can see why some of the key characters were changed, though. The Leader is radically different in the movie (they even rename him), and I can see why. Susan's obsession with Fate is not only creepy, but the idea of some super computer being used to control society definitely reeks of the 1980's. Ironically, though, in doing so they make the movie seem more like 1984 (the guy who plays High Chancellor Sutler was even in the movie adaptation of the book). Like Watchmen, V for Vendetta is the product of a different political era, and trying to modernize it in a film would make it difficult to stay true to the original story and still have American audiences relate to it. Oh well.
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