Fahrenheit 451
by Fran?ois Truffaut, Laurent Bouzereau
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Actor: Annette Insdorf, Julie Christie, Lewis M. Allen, Oskar Werner, Ray BradburyDirector: Fran?ois Truffaut, Laurent Bouzereau
Brand: WERNER,OSKAR
Writer: Ray Bradbury
Writer: Fran?ois Truffaut
Writer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: David Rudkin
Writer: Helen Scott
Writer: Jean-Louis Richard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Fahrenheit 451
Movie Review: Farenheit 451 DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd seen this movie numerous times growing up. When my 13 year old son read the book for a school book report, I wanted him to see the movie. It's hilarious to see the Firefighters chasing after Montag with their jet packs - you can see the strings holding them up! Still, great classic movie, and can't wait for the Mel Gibson updated remake.
Summary of Fahrenheit 451
A fireman is in charge of burning books in a future where reading is a crime.Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD
The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, Fran?ois Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton
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