FAHRENHEIT 451
(12/12/2003)
Released in 1966, "Fahrenheit 451" is a classic movie, directed by the brilliant French director François Truffaut. Considered one of the best science fiction films of the 60s, is today, revered by many fans and film lovers worldwide. The film is an exquisite adaptation of the American writer Ray Bradbury's book.
François Truffaut, with Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol and Louis Malle, is one of the masterminds of the "Nouvelle Vauge" or "New Wave " the most influential cinematographic movement of the modern cinema, that emerged in France in 1959/1960, which proposed to renew and regenerate a cinematography considered in decline. Composed of new filmmakers coming, mostly, of film criticism and, in particular, the legendary magazine Cahiers du Cinema, the movement diversified styles, brought spontaneity, expression of a culture on the screen, and launch the self-taught talent, which often resorted to improvisation, also contributed to the expansion of world cinema. Truffaut's film debut was the controversial "The 400 Blows"(1959), based on his autobiography, reported his troubled childhood. In 1962 he released his masterpiece: "Jules and Jim", an adaptation of the book by Henry-Pierre Roché, bringing the muse Jeanne Moreau in the lead role. With "Fahrenheit 451" Truffaut gives a show of aesthetic design.
The story takes place in the future, the state controls the culture, the public has no right to reading and to have knowledge. They are alienated and mentally enslaved. They have no past, because history is denied. Firefighters do not know that one day they extinguish the fires, and has as their duties to put fire in any type of printed material. "Literature is the main propagator of unhappiness. Readers can not exist, are threats to society. The population should denounce them", is one of the slogans of the fascist government.
The name of the title "Fahrenheit 451" means the ideal temperature for the combustion to burnt paper.
No doubt it is a groundbreaking movie, daring and original. Note: If you watched the film "Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard, you will notice a similarity between this and "Fahrenheit 451" because the history of the two strands is in the near future and presents a totalitarian society where the government has power over its inhabitants. Will the two movies are a metaphor for our situation?
(12/12/2003)
Released in 1966, "Fahrenheit 451" is a classic movie, directed by the brilliant French director François Truffaut. Considered one of the best science fiction films of the 60s, is today, revered by many fans and film lovers worldwide. The film is an exquisite adaptation of the American writer Ray Bradbury's book.
François Truffaut, with Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol and Louis Malle, is one of the masterminds of the "Nouvelle Vauge" or "New Wave " the most influential cinematographic movement of the modern cinema, that emerged in France in 1959/1960, which proposed to renew and regenerate a cinematography considered in decline. Composed of new filmmakers coming, mostly, of film criticism and, in particular, the legendary magazine Cahiers du Cinema, the movement diversified styles, brought spontaneity, expression of a culture on the screen, and launch the self-taught talent, which often resorted to improvisation, also contributed to the expansion of world cinema. Truffaut's film debut was the controversial "The 400 Blows"(1959), based on his autobiography, reported his troubled childhood. In 1962 he released his masterpiece: "Jules and Jim", an adaptation of the book by Henry-Pierre Roché, bringing the muse Jeanne Moreau in the lead role. With "Fahrenheit 451" Truffaut gives a show of aesthetic design.
The story takes place in the future, the state controls the culture, the public has no right to reading and to have knowledge. They are alienated and mentally enslaved. They have no past, because history is denied. Firefighters do not know that one day they extinguish the fires, and has as their duties to put fire in any type of printed material. "Literature is the main propagator of unhappiness. Readers can not exist, are threats to society. The population should denounce them", is one of the slogans of the fascist government.
The name of the title "Fahrenheit 451" means the ideal temperature for the combustion to burnt paper.
No doubt it is a groundbreaking movie, daring and original. Note: If you watched the film "Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard, you will notice a similarity between this and "Fahrenheit 451" because the history of the two strands is in the near future and presents a totalitarian society where the government has power over its inhabitants. Will the two movies are a metaphor for our situation?
SYNOPSIS: In a futuristic society, the "firefighters" have as their main task to burn all the books, since they were abolished by the government. It was established that the literature only spread the misery. That's when the fireman Montag (Oskar Werner) falls for a beautiful and cultured teacher (Julie Christie), which shows him all the pleasures that reading can offer. He becomes a compulsive reader and begins to question the line of thought imposed by the State.
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