Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Scifi
Duration: 112 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: François Truffaut
Stars: Julie Christie, Oskar Werner and Cyril Cusack
IMDb score:
7,2 (46.485)
Releasedate: 7 September 1966
Fahrenheit 451 plot
"What if you had no right to read?"
Film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book of the same name. In the future, books will be banned because they make people unhappy. It's the job of firefighters like Guy Montag to burn confiscated books. However, Montag starts to doubt the intentions of the government, and one day decides to read the books to be burned first.
Actors and actresses
Clarisse / Linda Montag
Guy Montag
Captain Beatty
Fabian / Headmistress
Man with the Apple
Book Woman
Book Person: 'The Life of Henry Brulard'
Judoka Woman (uncredited)
Book Person: Machiavelli's 'The Prince' (uncredited)
Doris (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
Leland Palmer
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- 23770 messages
- 4818 votes
Truffaut regroups with this print after the somewhat lesser 'Julet et Jim'. Before that it was fantastic what I saw of the man, with 'Les Quatre Cents Coups' as a big highlight. That is a small masterpiece.
Big names who continued to work on the film. Hermann with the score and Roeg behind the camera. Nice opening credits. I had a great time with this movie. It is not fantastic, but the separate characters, the strange settings and the special story make for a nice result.
I take the terribly ugly effects (the flying policemen at the end) for granted. Definitely a film not to be taken too seriously. And a powerful scene when Montag puts his boss on fire.
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wihu61
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- 907 messages
- 474 votes
I saw it a long time ago (early 70s I think) and I liked it then. Now he was a bit disappointing to me: I thought it was a fairly distant and flat performance (also in terms of acting).
I also expect to see a development from a loyal lawman to a "traitor" in a central figure like Montag, also to be able to identify more strongly with him. Here he just starts reading a book overnight (he had apparently still learned it) and strangely enough does not really make a secret of it within his own circle.
Fortunately no "over the top" SF elements: the (greedily used) monorail, the fire engine and the flat screen were sufficient. Nice film, but to say "boy what a uh... dystopian situations".... no.
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Onderhond
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- 87451 messages
- 12499 votes
This wasn't really it.
The biggest problem is that at no point could I actually find out what Truffaut just meant by this film. The book burning is a rather charged theme, so a lot of conversations seem to be rather serious. But the film itself is anything but.
Terrible acting, a ridiculous vision of the future, a soundtrack straight out of a comedy and a plot that is too ridiculous for words. It even feels very childish at times, perhaps because everything looks so fake and stage-like.
It also didn't help that I could occasionally join the bad guys (the monologue about the philosophy books, for example, something that didn't seem entirely the intention to me either. Anyway, long film that comes across as ridiculous and complete both as a comedy and as a serious film fails..
1.0*
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