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Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
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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, François 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...
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Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature in which paper ignites. This a great name for this story because there is a lot of that going on in this movie adaptation of a classic Bradbury novel. This is one of the first great "dystopian" themed movies as far as I am concerned. It really follows what I, as a comic book fan and former...
(complete Fahrenheit 451 review by The Alpha Craig)
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