Synopsis
Knowledge is a dangerous thing
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Fahrenheit 451
2018 Directed by Ramin Bahrani
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Michael B. Jordan Michael Shannon Sofia Boutella Khandi Alexander Lilly Singh Martin Donovan Andy McQueen Dylan Taylor Keir Dullea Grace Lynn Kung Jane Moffat Joe Pingue Joanne Boland Drew Nelson David Tompa Raoul Bhaneja Lynne Griffin Tim Post Daniel Zolghadri Saad Siddiqui Daniel Alfredo Ojeda Michelle Roy Chris Gleason Joe Vercillo Cindy Katz Mayko Nguyen Katherine Cullen Edsson Morales Chad Camilleri Show All…
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Jim Rider John Bair Natasha North Benjamin Mossman Steven Weigle Navid Bagherzadeh Tyson Groth Sebastian Munoz Silva
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华氏451
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really weird choice to take bradbury's deeply mundane authoritarianism (a post-war 50s domesticity so high on numbness and passivity that nazi book-burning feels natural) and try and make it into a bombastic resistance actioner with some low-budget Blade Runner aesthetic.
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after blade runner 2049 flopped denis villeneuve cursed us to a year of hollywood producing dystopian movies that have a discount version of the br2049 aesthetic but literally nothing else
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shout out to all the future high school students that’ll have to watch this after finishing the book
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Well this was messy but what can I say... I just really love visuals*
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when this happens irl and we all have to memorize and become a book to keep it alive i call dips on Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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Watched on HBO Now.
For those of you interested... Ramin co-wrote this with Amir Naderi. Amir is one of the most under-appreciated filmmakers out there. Seek out The Runner (1984).
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I will be waiting for both Michaels with an open heart, open arms, and open legs
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I mean I love Sofia Boutella and Michael Shannon BUT my man MBJ in fireman uniform in that trailer?!?? 🔥COUNT🔥ME🔥IN🔥BUT🔥ALSO🔥COUNT🔥ME🔥DEAD🔥ALREADY🔥
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TV-14”We burned almost every physical book in this country”
The updated and retooled 21st-century production of Fahrenheit 451 directed by Ramin Bahrani, begins with a hiss of intrigue by evoking elements of racial injustice of the African American segregation, covered up and forgotten in a world of electronic bias - all but a fleeting moment after the opening credits, never referenced or refereed again. Bahrani’s film (executive produced by star Michael B. Jordan may I add!) is a walking, talking coma of a production. It's hard to find any particular moments of fondness, aside from the performances of both Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella. The latter taking centre stage, but remarkably is absentee from marketing? A decision…
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Michael B. Jordan + Michael Shannon + Ramin Bahrani should equal a winning TV movie. Unfortunately, it's really weird. The delivery of the lines is weird. It's futuristic with all the digital screens, but it just falls really flat. It's not terrible and it's watchable. We need a message like Fahrenheit 451 in these times, but this is not going to take off like some execs at HBO hoped it would.