Synopsis
George Orwell's Terrifying Vision Comes To The Screen.
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
1984 Directed by Michael Radford
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
John Hurt Richard Burton Suzanna Hamilton Cyril Cusack Gregor Fisher James Walker Andrew Wilde David Cann Peter Frye Roger Lloyd Pack David Trevena Anthony Benson Phyllis Logan Garry Cooper Rupert Baderman Corinna Seddon Martha Parsey Merelina Kendall P.J. Nicholas Lynne Radford Pip Donaghy Shirley Stelfox Janet Key Hugh Walters John Hughes Robert Putt Christine Hargreaves Matthew Scurfield John Golightly Show All…
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This is remarkably staged and photographed but some images probably shouldn’t leave our minds. Tarkovsky influence all over, simple practical hardware store lighting design, backlit shadow effects signaling dread and anxiety through every doorway, grime on every window pane. It all feels like a rehash of greater work—Melville, Costa-Gavras, etc.—filtered through a British tradition of vaguely aggrieved obeisance. A rare “big crowds” Roger Deakins project, but also one consonant with public desolation. The book has become such an overworked cheat to indicate inevitable totalitarian doom and the surveillance state that it’s easy to forget one of its key messages is that love will not save you and fucking cannot make you free. Quite a zag from the typical American sap.…
Great book.
Bad movie.
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The same problems I had with Andy Muschietti's It Chapter Two I also have with Nineteen Eighty-Four. It loses everything about the source material and acts more like a scrapbook of recognizable scenes. And, like a scrapbook, unless you have background knowledge of every photo, stamp, and other memorabilia, it's nothing more than useless junk.
A shame, too. I feel as though Goerge Orwell's 1984 has a bit of a bad wrap (You know, like hot dogs) because it's so commonly (and appropriately) considered predictive literature while also being used to denounce practices people don't like. But, the book is so much more than "Google tracks you…
I just discovered John Hurt starred in five of the most depressing films ever made:
1. 1984
2. The Elephant Man
3. Midnight Express
4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
5. Melancholia
There are many novels that are considered classics because of their content and the themes they explore. Orwell's novel is no exception, but is also something else. It is a novel that over the past 70 years has created a concept and an exposition of ideas that have instilled themselves in our cultures and language. This is of course captured best in the iconic phrase 'Big Brother is watching you'.
Orwell wrote the novel while suffering though the final stages of tuberculosis, so it is only natural that his outlook on the world was rather grim. Written in 1948, Orwell wanted to address the dangers of what can happen to a country on the brink of or in the aftermath…
Soy fanático de Gran Hermano desde que se estrenó el primer capítulo allá por el año 2001. Casi todo el país era fanático de Gran Hermano pero nadie se animaba a admitirlo porque se decía que era un programa para idiotizar a la gente. Y la verdad que sí, pero era muy necesario en esa época (y en todas las épocas) tener algo para desconectar la cabeza un rato y dejar de pensar un poco en todos los quilombos que hay. Porque repito… era Argentina… año 2001.
Aunque el verdadero problema con Gran Hermano era que le sacaba lugar a otros programas de televisión, específicamente a la ficción. Posiblemente hayan escuchado el grito “¡¡Aguante la ficción, carajo!!” Ese fue…
No one:
High school English Lit teachers: This is a perfect summation of life in Trump's America. How foolish we have become in letting government power run rampant and unchecked, allowing such cautionary fiction such as George Orwell's seminal classic to become such shocking reality.
English Version below
Winterzeit ist Klassikerzeit die Zweiunddreißig (32/4)
Wachstum durch Produktivität.
Produktivität durch Optimierung.
Optimierung durch Überwachung?
Überwachung durch Zonen.
Zonen durch Gefängnisse.
Gefängnisse durch Implizierungen.
George Orwells - 1984 ist selbige Impfung wiederhandelnden Wortstammes einer eintretenden Besserung in der Genesung und der vorbeugenden wie dessen 1984 erschienen Romanadaption von Regisseur Michael Radfords als dessen filmischer Ausdruck gleich der Dogmen der Kirche bzw. vielmehr deren Auslegung oder den Doktrinen der Kommunisten in der verbalisierten Einung zur Gleichwertigkeit aller im eigentlichen hochkatapultieren zur Spitze der Pyramide des Einen eines in sich beinhaltenen guten Vorsatzes im Wiederstreben der menschlichen Natur. Produktivität die nicht im Warenfluss, der Zirkulation eines bestenfalls nie aufhörenden Kreislaufes eines darin bereits verankerten Ungleichgewichts als eine kleine Unebenheit…
This isn't going to be much of a review I'm afraid.
There are some films/literature that you come across at a formative age that, simply put, both blows and (re)shapes your mind. You fall in love with it instantly that there simply are no words.
As a teenager I read a couple of Orwell books, 1984 being one of them and it set me on the ideological path I continue to travel on to this day.
I got around to watching Michael Radford's adaptation of Orwell's masterpiece some years later and I have to say it is pretty much perfect and, stands up to repeated viewing. Suitably in keeping with what one expects/pictures in the mind's eye when reading the…