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Fahrenheit 451 [DVD]
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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Military & War |
Format | Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Jean-Louis Richard, Lewis M. Allen, Francois Truffaut, Bee Duffell, Cyril Cusack, Oskar Werner, Jeremy Spenser, Julie Christie, Anton Diffring, Alex Scott See more |
Initial release date | 2009-01-27 |
Language | English |
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Product Description
Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the challenging dual role of Oskar Werner's pleasure-seeking conformist wife, Linda, and his rebellious, book-collecting mistress, Clarisse. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Truffaut's first English language production is an eerie fable where mankind becomes the ultimate evil.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 2.47 ounces
- Item model number : 2219805
- Director : Francois Truffaut
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 53 minutes
- Release date : January 27, 2009
- Actors : Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French
- Producers : Lewis M. Allen
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B000087F6L
- Writers : Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,458 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #46 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
- #76 in Science Fiction DVDs
- #589 in Drama DVDs
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the look of the film is fabulous, so perfectly stylized out of the orange and green couture designs from 1966-72. I love the art direction. there are Giant tv's, which at the time seemed ludicrous and which, today, of course, have come and gone, the companions of the society, bent on keeping meloncoly emotions like sorrow, lonliness, remorse, anywhere but in here. The French do celebrate these low tides of the human experience, and the lovely director, Francious Truffaut, is able to make the point well. using a very suppressed and angry Oskar Werner as the vessel of fury for the loss of humanity, we are reminded how every persons journey effects every other person he comes in contact with. Werner's German accent makes the whole film that much more...odd. misplaced. as if something is here that does not belong.
The fire truck and the music in the opening scene are fabulous. From the very beginning credits, we know Truffaut is giving you his all. the credits are spoken! Because, hey, no one here can read and anyway reading is against the law. watching the antennae and tuning into the incredible score, xylophones, and strings with my hi def wi fi.. I am already futurized.
The view of the filmmakers seems to be that literature is the only true pastime for the intelligentsia. the communist USSR society seems to be a backdrop for this future, where all is take care of and no one desires much, and you are in big trouble is you misbehave. America also has her say, with too much time on their hands and nothing to do, pills are everywhere. ODing is just a fact of everyday life. the social austerity of the USSR meets the social obesity of the USA, and so it is only natural that people ... .. people find a way out by becoming a piece of fiction. they
become a book.
It is still one of if not my favorite ending of any movie. The besotted antihero finds his way out of the city and follows the tracks to the place where people are living off the land, together, reciting the books they love until they know them by heart. Each introduces himself by the title of a book.
And as the walk through the snow together reciting themselves, I have this feeling of home, purpose, simplicity. I long to be there, and I especially long to be there in Julie Christy's gorgeous suede coat. It was the height of cool fashion, and I still get an old feeling of my whole life being before me every time I see her in her coat, in a world of her own, saving herself, and sacrificing herself, for a larger meaning as well.
also that scene where he hides in the boat and the policemen are coming in the air in those rockets, that used to scare the crap out of me.
Truffaut's playfulness is all over the material, from casting an actor who forbade his children to watch TV or go to the cinema as the fire chief (Cyril Cusack in the film's standout performance) to dramatically masking off half the screen and heightening the dramatic music for what turns out to be a less than dramatic moment in a search - and that's without the inclusion of Cahiers du Cinema among the burning books or mentioning Anton Diffring's brief moment in drag. But then this is an absurdist world, where firemen slide up poles and start fires and where fascism is accepted in that way it always is when gradually introduced because of people's innate ability to adapt to their circumstances, no matter how absurd or restricting.
It improves on Bradbury's novel by losing some of the more distancing sci-fi devices such as the fortune telling dog, and setting it's future in a soulless post-war New Town environment that is close enough to the real look of the time to add to the credibility. Much of what there is in the film isn't that far from reality, with plasma wall screens offering inept interactive' TV (even down to pressing the red button) becoming status symbols, and betrayal increasingly encouraged as an everyday, socially acceptable act. Indeed, the world it presents, where people touch themselves, not each other, and where conflicting ideas are discouraged because they just make people unhappy, seems all too contemporary. Only what is possibly the single worst special effect in film history (those laughable flying policeman on all-too visible wires), the film's one ill-judged excursion into optical effects, sticks out like a sore thumb.
Despite the huge problems between Oskar Werner (who wanted to play Montag with a wink and a smile) and Truffaut (who ended the shoot directing through an intermediary, using body doubles and having to cut Werner's takes shortly before he smiled!), Montag seems a credible protagonist, an empty vessel who suddenly has his horizons violently opened. Even the accent seems strangely right: not so much the idea of a German playing a fascist book burner (indeed, Diffring's German accent is dubbed here), but the way it seems to compliment the formal language of the piece. Even Julie Christie's blandness and sporadic awkward enthusiasm work well enough in this environment for her almost to seem to give a perform for once.
Throw in Bernard Herrmann's remarkably beautiful, sparingly used score, never more effective than in the final sequences that are almost magically complimented by the happy accident of a totally unexpected snowfall, and the result is a surprisingly moving piece about fundamentally shallow people. And it is a very comforting thought that, if behind every book is a man (or woman), then somewhere there is a man or woman who will keep every book alive despite all efforts to destroy it.
Universal's DVD is one of the very best on the market: the audio commentary is occassionally unsatisfying, but any gaps are more than filled in by the excellent 45-minute documentary, interview with Ray Bradbury, featurette on Herrmann's score, alternate title sequence, stills and poster gallery and trailer. Highly recommended.
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A surrealistic, disconcerting dystopian delve into state command - ' no reading books. they make you upset.'
The small French guy in Close Encounters of The 3rd Kind was director for Fahrenheit 451 and heralded as a genius innovator :) The very mood he created was eerily perfect. And Julie Christie playing dual roles, well done.