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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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10903
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Oskar Werner
, Julie Christie
, Cyril Cusack
, Anton Diffring
, Jeremy Spenser
, Bee Duffell
, Alex Scott
, Michael Balfour
, Anna Palk
, Ann Bell
, Caroline Hunt
, David Glover
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| Director: |
Francois Truffaut
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Science Fiction
, Foreign
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color
widescreen |
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English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
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| Length: |
112 mins |
| Release Date: |
2000-10-17 |
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$ 4.00 |
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| The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, Fran�is Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. |
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