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14 November 1966 (USA)
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In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. full summary | add synopsis
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Book Burning
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 2 nominations
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(14 articles)
Ray Bradbury To Pitch Miniseries
(From Screen Rant. 15 November 2009, 7:30 AM, PST)
Blu-Ray Review: Stunning ‘The Prisoner’ Still Holds Viewer Interest Captive
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 13 November 2009, 10:09 AM, PST)
(From Screen Rant. 15 November 2009, 7:30 AM, PST)
Blu-Ray Review: Stunning ‘The Prisoner’ Still Holds Viewer Interest Captive
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 13 November 2009, 10:09 AM, PST)
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Imagine a world without books....
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Oskar Werner | ... | Guy Montag |
 | Julie Christie | ... | Clarisse / Linda Montag |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | The Captain |
| Anton Diffring | ... | Fabian / Headmistress |
| Jeremy Spenser | ... | Man with the Apple |
| Bee Duffell | ... | Book Woman |
| Alex Scott | ... | Book Person: 'The Life of Henry Brulard' |
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| Noel Davis | ... | Cousin Midge - TV Personality |
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112 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Iceland:12 |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:12 |
USA:Unrated |
Singapore:PG |
West Germany:12
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Oskar Werner cut his hair for the final scene to purposely create a continuity error. This was due to his hatred for the director.
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Continuity: When Montag gets in the boat to hide from the flying cops, you can see the rope still tying the boat to the bank. Montag subsequently rows away with out untying it.
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Clarisse:
Why?
Guy Montag: What?
Clarisse: How did it come about? How did it begin? How could someone like you be doing this work? I know everyone says that but you - you're not like them. When I say something to you, you look at me. Why did you choose this job? With you it doesn't make any sense.
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Guy Montag: What?
Clarisse: How did it come about? How did it begin? How could someone like you be doing this work? I know everyone says that but you - you're not like them. When I say something to you, you look at me. Why did you choose this job? With you it doesn't make any sense.
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Referenced in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Fahrenheit 932 (#1.12)" (2001)
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Fahrenheit 451" is a strange film, hard to describe. No one could have interpreted the classic Bradbury novel in the same bizarre, fascinating manner as Francois Truffaut. It's a book, and a film, about freedom, choices, individuality, and intellectual repression in a future where books are forbidden; where Firemen are men who start fires...fires in which they burn books.
It was also the first color film directed by Truffaut. Although he by all accounts was not happy about making a color film and found it a bit unsettling, color is used to great effect here; sparingly, except for the extreme shade of red that is seen throughout.
"Fahrenheit 451" is supposed to be the temperature at which book paper catches fire, as the protagonist Guy Montag (Oskar Werner) explains in a scene at the beginning. Guy is a Fireman who seems happy enough with his life until he is approached by a young woman named Clarisse (Julie Christie) on his way home from work one day. She starts up a conversation with him, and the two become friendly. She bewilders him but challenges him to think and feel....and read. And when he arrives home we see his wife (also played by Julie Christie, with long hair), sedated and watching the wallscreen (TV of sorts)...we see what his life is really like, although he had told Clarisse he was "happy"...he is not.
As his friendship with Clarisse grows, he starts to secretly take home, hoard, and read some of the books he finds in the course of his daily work, and as he reads, he becomes obsessed with the books. They become his mistress, and are what finally make him feel affection and warmth. And when he starts to feel and care, so do we.
The two single best scenes are a passionate one involving an old woman who refuses to leave her books, her "children" as she calls them; and the wonderful ending of the film. The countless, painful closeups of books as they are being burned are beautifully done, and difficult to watch.
Truffaut was a well-known disciple of Alfred Hitchcock's films, so when Hitchcock fired his long-time music collaborator Bernard Herrmann during the filming of "Torn Curtain", Truffaut was thrilled to acquire his talents for his own film. The score for "F451" is beautiful, and the film would not be nearly as effective without it.
Writer/producer/director Frank Darabont ("The Green Mile", "The Shawshank Redemption") is working on a new film of "Fahrenheit 451" this year. He says it won't be a remake of the original film.