Fahrenheit 451
by Fran?ois Truffaut, Laurent Bouzereau
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Actor: Anton Diffring, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Spenser, Julie Christie, Oskar WernerDirector: Fran?ois Truffaut, Laurent Bouzereau
Brand: Universal
Writer: Fran?ois Truffaut
Writer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: David Rudkin
Writer: Helen Scott
Writer: Jean-Louis Richard
Writer: Ray Bradbury
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, 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: A classic anti-utopia
Summary: 4 Stars
Ray Bradbury was never a hard science sci fi writer as his Martian books were off in science when they were written, but in terms of literary acceptance he has led the pack.
Here a world where the printed word is being destroyed,
we see what can only be the fall of a civilization as motor manual's
are necessary to keeping cars going.
I've always wished that we would put the important elements to
something like stone that can't be bashed by vandals invading.
Memorization is how many of the bardic epic poems have come down to us,
but for non-poetry prose is very hard for most people,
so the idea of a lot of people each memorizing one book doesn't seem practical.
I liked the movie just the same and I think that it was made in Britain tells you a lot.
Summary of Fahrenheit 451
A fireman of the future burns books until he meets a book lover and becomes an outlaw. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/27/2009 Starring: Cyril Cusack Ann Bell Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Francois TruffautThe 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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