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Year: 1966
Director: François Truffaut
Plot: In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the source material for French director François Truffaut's English-language debut. While some liberties are taken with the description of the world, the narrative remains the same, as fireman Montag (Oskar Werner) begins to question the morality of his vocation. Curious about the world of books, he soon falls in love with a beautiful young member of a pro-literature underground -- and with literature itself. Critics were divided on the effectiveness of the result; some praised the unique design and eerie color cinematography by Nicolas Roeg, while others found the film's stylized approach overly distancing and attacked the central performances as unnatural. In any case, however, the film inarguably succeeds in making Truffaut's reverence for the written word abundantly clear, especially during the film's justifiably famous finale. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 09 May 2009 22:41:22 GMTFahrenheit 4511966François TruffautIn the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the source material for French director <a href="/players/P___114620/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>François Truffaut</a>'s English-language debut. While some liberties are taken with the description of the world, the narrative remains the same, as fireman Montag (<a href="/players/P____75563/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Oskar Werner</a>) begins to question the morality of his vocation. Curious about the world of books, he soon falls in love with a beautiful young member of a pro-literature underground -- and with literature itself. Critics were divided on the effectiveness of the result; some praised the unique design and eerie color cinematography by <a href="/players/P___108672/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Nicolas Roeg</a>, while others found the film's stylized approach overly distancing and attacked the central performances as unnatural. In any case, however, the film inarguably succeeds in making Truffaut's reverence for the written word abundantly clear, especially during the film's justifiably famous finale. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide8Taggedy Taggged (6-10)20323http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t31126ma6lq.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Fahrenheit_451/11035/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/sci_fi/Ray_Bradbury/4/34760/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
Post To: sci-fi
Post Date: 9/4/2008 4:09:09 PM
Body: 300 director, Zack Snyder is directing an adaptation of Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. I've gotton about halfway through this book. It's really just a collection of short stories. Most of them are damn good though. Bradbury is by far my favorite sci-fi writer but it seems like movies based on his work are less than well recieved. Even Fahrenheit 451I got mainly "ho-hum" reviews. Which is completely odd considering it is widely known as one of the most important pieces of lit ever writen and the film was directed by François Truffaut, who is usually very acclaimed. I have yet to see The Martian Chronicles but I loved the book. I think I'll bump it up on my queue (mainly because I'm thinking about it right now) but I don't really have high hopes for it.
]]>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:09:09 GMTleeroy711sci-fi9/4/2008 4:09:09 PM300 director, Zack Snyder is directing an adaptation of Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. I've gotton about halfway through this book. It's really just a collection of short stories. Most of them are damn good though. Bradbury is by far my favorite sci-fi writer but it seems like movies based on his work are less than well recieved. Even Fahrenheit 451I got mainly "ho-hum" reviews. Which is completely odd considering it is widely known as one of the most important pieces of lit ever writen and the film was directed by Fran&ccedil;ois Truffaut, who is usually very acclaimed. I have yet to see The Martian Chronicles but I loved the book. I think I'll bump it up on my queue (mainly because I'm thinking about it right now) but I don't really have high hopes for it. http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/5/12/28737.aspx Post By: CinemaRian
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Post Date: 5/12/2008 10:08:46 PM
Body: I really wanted to like Fahrenheit 451, as it was based on a novel by one of my favorite writers, Ray Bradbury, and it was directed by one my favorite filmmakers, Francois Traffaut. I had originally seen the film divided over a three-day period in my high school English class. I remembered not liking it, but thought I might change my mind later. Unfortunately, my original opinion was correct- it was on Traffaut's weakest film, an opinion shared by the director himself. Many critics have stated that it is exceedingly difficult to translate Bradbury's work to the screen, primarily because of the writer's poetic, metaphor laden prose. Although I have not read Fahrenheit 451, I have read many of Bradbury's short stories, including one of the best I have encountered, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed", and I can attest that this observation is accurate. So much of the action takes place in character's own heads, or in Bradbury's omniscient observations that to merely film the action is not only incomplete, it misses the point, which is possibly why the movie is so disappointing. Although commonly thought of as being about a society that has banned reading, most of the movie is a sadly typical American Beauty-type account of a man who sleeps through life and slowly begins to realize that he's not really living. The problem is that the man always seems to be sleeping. His name is Montag, and he's played in a spectacularly bland performance by Oscar Werner. I am not alone in finding his performance to be somnambulant, Traffaut ended a close friendship with the actor over what he considered to be his failure to emote. Montag is a fireman, which means in this future that he starts fires as opposed to putting them out. What he burns is books- there are some people who still hoard the forbidden texts. Why are they banned? "They make people sad", says the fire chief (Cyril Cusack). Instead, the newspapers are written in comic book format (without voice balloons) and everyone spends most of the day watching an insipid TV show called The Family. Montag doesn't question any of this until he meets Clarisse (Julie Christie) on a bus ride, who herself questions the effectiveness of society's mores. Montag realizes that his wife (oddly enough, also Julie Christie) is an idiot, and his curiosity is piqued by the books he burns- what do they talk about, anyway? Werner's flawed performance makes Montag's journey very difficult to care about, but he is not helped by some poor directorial choices from Truffaut. For one thing, I never really got the idea that I was in the future- everything in this movie looks so 1960's that it's a times laughable. The script is somewhat predictable and formless, with many unnecessary scenes. This might be due to the fact that Truffaut spoke no English and directed the film through an interpreter (as well as using a translated screenplay) but it greatly hurts the movie nonethess. Finally, the movie has a muddled intellectual argument- is the point supposed to be that books are good and TV is bad? That a free market of ideas- which print is the best artistic medium for- is essential, even if it makes you feel bad? I didn't find these ideas particularly compelling. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
]]>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:08:46 GMTCinemaRianCinemaRian Blog5/12/2008 10:08:46 PM I really wanted to like Fahrenheit 451, as it was based on a novel by one of my favorite writers, Ray Bradbury, and it was directed by one my favorite filmmakers, Francois Traffaut. I had originally seen the film divided over a three-day period in my high school English class. I remembered not liking it, but thought I might change my mind later. Unfortunately, my original opinion was correct- it was on Traffaut's weakest film, an opinion shared by the director himself. Many critics have stated that it is exceedingly difficult to translate Bradbury's work to the screen, primarily because of the writer's poetic, metaphor laden prose. Although I have not read Fahrenheit 451, I have read many of Bradbury's short stories, including one of the best I have encountered, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed", and I can attest that this observation is accurate. So much of the action takes place in character's own heads, or in Bradbury's omniscient observations that to merely film the action is not only incomplete, it misses the point, which is possibly why the movie is so disappointing. Although commonly thought of as being about a society that has banned reading, most of the movie is a sadly typical American Beauty-type account of a man who sleeps through life and slowly begins to realize that he's not really living. The problem is that the man always seems to be sleeping. His name is Montag, and he's played in a spectacularly bland performance by Oscar Werner. I am not alone in finding his performance to be somnambulant, Traffaut ended a close friendship with the actor over what he considered to be his failure to emote. Montag is a fireman, which means in this future that he starts fires as opposed to putting them out. What he burns is books- there are some people who still hoard the forbidden texts. Why are they banned? "They make people sad", says the fire chief (Cyril Cusack). Instead, the newspapers are written in comic book format (without voice balloons) and everyone spends most of the day watching an insipid TV show called The Family. Montag doesn't question any of this until he meets Clarisse (Julie Christie) on a bus ride, who herself questions the effectiveness of society's mores. Montag realizes that his wife (oddly enough, also Julie Christie) is an idiot, and his curiosity is piqued by the books he burns- what do they talk about, anyway? Werner's flawed performance makes Montag's journey very difficult to care about, but he is not helped by some poor directorial choices from Truffaut. For one thing, I never really got the idea that I was in the future- everything in this movie looks so 1960's that it's a times laughable. The script is somewhat predictable and formless, with many unnecessary scenes. This might be due to the fact that Truffaut spoke no English and directed the film through an interpreter (as well as using a translated screenplay) but it greatly hurts the movie nonethess. Finally, the movie has a muddled intellectual argument- is the point supposed to be that books are good and TV is bad? That a free market of ideas- which print is the best artistic medium for- is essential, even if it makes you feel bad? I didn't find these ideas particularly compelling. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) http://www.spout.com/blogs/chesterfilms/archive/2007/5/15/8826.aspx Post By: chesterfilms
Post To: chesterfilms Blog
Post Date: 5/15/2007 1:36:17 AM
Body: I guess we could call this the Saul Bass Memorial List. Here goes.1. Vertigo (1958)2. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)3. Se7en (1995)4. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)5. Cape Fear (1991)
]]>Tue, 15 May 2007 05:36:17 GMTchesterfilmschesterfilms Blog5/15/2007 1:36:17 AMI guess we could call this the Saul Bass Memorial List. Here goes.1. Vertigo (1958)2. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)3. Se7en (1995)4. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)5. Cape Fear (1991) http://www.spout.com/blogs/chesterfilms/archive/2007/5/14/8790.aspx Post By: chesterfilms
Post To: chesterfilms Blog
Post Date: 5/14/2007 8:35:10 PM
Body: This was my first Truffaut film. I have since seen most of his others and loved them. I guess I started with this one because I love Ray Bradbury. Truffaut does a wonderful job on his first color and english speaking film. You can really see Hitchcocks influence on him, including his use of Bernard Herrmann.
]]>Tue, 15 May 2007 00:35:10 GMTchesterfilmschesterfilms Blog5/14/2007 8:35:10 PMThis was my first Truffaut film. I have since seen most of his others and loved them. I guess I started with this one because I love Ray Bradbury. Truffaut does a wonderful job on his first color and english speaking film. You can really see Hitchcocks influence on him, including his use of Bernard Herrmann. http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Post_Apocalyptic_Films/190/7003/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: josephkuzma
Post To: Top 5
Post Date: 4/13/2007 12:36:24 AM
Body: A few of my favorite dystopian flicks have been mentioned (Brazil, Planet of the Apes, 12 Monkeys, Soylent Green, A Clockwork Orange) but I'd also like to mention Jubilee (weird but entertaining) and Metropolis (a f**king classic in every sense of the word). I also kinda liked Reign of Fire in that "It's on the SciFi Channel and it's 2am, why not?" sort of way. Logan's Run is one of my favorite pieces of cheeseball 70s crap also. Also: Dark City, 1984 (both versions), Fahrenheit 451, RoboCop.I remembered liking Equilibrium but when I rewatched it with my wife I realize what a steaming pile it really was. Demolition Man is another example of a steaming pile of dystopian (sorta) crap. Idiocracy had a good premise but was just a bad bad bad movie all around (die Dax Shephard, die). And, of course, two of the biggest piles of crap ever: Fortress & THX 1138.
]]>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:36:24 GMTjosephkuzmaTop 54/13/2007 12:36:24 AMA few of my favorite dystopian flicks have been mentioned (Brazil, Planet of the Apes, 12 Monkeys, Soylent Green, A Clockwork Orange) but I&#39;d also like to mention Jubilee (weird but entertaining) and Metropolis (a f**king classic in every sense of the word). I also kinda liked Reign of Fire in that "It&#39;s on the SciFi Channel and it&#39;s 2am, why not?" sort of way. Logan&#39;s Run is one of my favorite pieces of cheeseball 70s crap also. Also: Dark City, 1984 (both versions), Fahrenheit 451, RoboCop.I remembered liking Equilibrium but when I rewatched it with my wife I realize what a steaming pile it really was. Demolition Man is another example of a steaming pile of dystopian (sorta) crap. Idiocracy had a good premise but was just a bad bad bad movie all around (die Dax Shephard, die). And, of course, two of the biggest piles of crap ever: Fortress &amp; THX 1138. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/redemption/MemberTagFilms.aspxredemption
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