#451 Fahrenheit film

[duncan-tashi]

Is it true that a long time ago firemen used to put out fire and not burn books?

Fahrenheit 451 (1966), dir. François Truffaut.

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François Truffaut and Julie Christie on the set of FAHRENHEIT 451, 1966

[yinedemeliha]

- Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut, 1966)

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On September 7, 1966, Fahrenheit 451 premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

Here's some new Oskar Werner art!

[filmjunky-99]

f a h r e n h e i t 4 5 1, 1966 🎬 dir. françois truffaut

[mcxcuseme13]

My favorite thing about film people is that they'll bullshit their way through a meaning in a movie like they're an English teacher. "So class what's the meaning of his use of spaghetti" and "Oppenheimer is actually super deep, it's about *yaps on for 180 minutes and 9 seconds*" Like yeah I get that Oppenheimer is about not being stupid and repeating what mankind already did, but Fahrenheit 451 did it better and in 158 pages. Oppenheimer took 3 hours, but it might have accomplished more if there wasn't a 15 minute sex scene. I'm also like 95% sure that whatever Oppenheimer was trying to teach me, I could figure out with an ice cream sandwich and a clock that reads 2:16 am

[kadecrow]

I watched the 2018 movie of Fahrenheit 451 and I genuinely recommend avoiding it unless you want to enjoy critiquing every detail about the movie.

I read the book for school a couple years back and I thoroughly enjoyed it along with all of the deep messages included. The 2018 "adaptation" ignores every single detail and just spams "Hollywood movie" traits onto it. It's nothing close to the original story anymore, only very vaguely following the storyline.

So if you're looking to feel academic and educated by deeply critiquing a movie adaptation for a classic book you read, I can recommend this movie because that's basically what I did the entire time. It's definitely not one to watch for entertainment if you've read the book, but you can make it entertaining by making fun of it and feeling ten times smarter.

[ahhvernin]

I also wanna go on a slight tangent. In the book of Fahrenheit 451, they mention 'imaginary families' and people completely engrossed by this ongoing world that was displayed on all four walls of the house and having seashell radios in their ears. Fast forward to 2023, people are on their screens completely engrossed by their screens and in a world that is not their current one, viewers and content creators calling people "Fam". No matter what room you are in, you are in two worlds at the same time, and the seashells in your ears were once referenced by someone when earbuds first came out and then later airpods.

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[kafkasapartment]

Poster with Julie Christie in Truffaut's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451", 1967. Guy Gerard Noël. Vineyard Films. Universal International.

"Books are to remind us what asses and fools we are." - Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451"

[scavengedluxury]

Advert for the film version of Fahrenheit 451 on a tram at St. Stephen’s Boulevard, Budapest, 1969. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.

[sweetnnaivete]

all about me ♡

i'm fifteen, my birthday is september 9th, i'm white, welsh and american, i speak english and a fair bit of spanish

all my love : travelling, coming of age films, roald dahl books, singing & playing the drums, autumn, iced chai lattes, snoopy, all things lavender-scented, english & history class, medieval art, miffy, the moon, video essays, chocolate, harry potter & the order of the phoenix, alphonse mucha, films, ancient rome

books : harry potter, percy jackson, grishaverse, little women, the perks of being a wallflower, a good girl's guide to murder, five survive, gregor the overlander, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, the secret history, to kill a mockingbird, the sisters grimm, much ado about nothing, the catcher in the rye, the hunger games, fahrenheit 451

films : star wars films, studio ghibli films, lady bird, 10 things i hate about you, dead poets society, how to train your dragon, juno, saltburn, coraline, la la land, ferris bueller's day off, billy elliot, little women (2019), sunset boulevard, the princess bride, black swan

shows : anne with an e, gilmore girls, friends, derry girls, downton abbey, brooklyn 99, glee, the good place, the office, outnumbered, never have i ever

music : the cranberries, ethel cain, ariana grande, beabadoobee, mitski, taylor swift, laufey, olivia rodrigo, the killers, cocteau twins, clairo, chappell roan, fleetwood mac, jeff buckley, lana del rey, mazzy star, leith ross, radiohead, the beatles, imogen heap, fiona apple, ramones, the cardigans, adrianne lenker

me me me : lily evans, amy march, pip fitz-amobi, hermione granger, sabrina grimm, remus lupin, kat stratford, luna lovegood, annabeth chase, jo march, amy santiago, pam beesly, todd anderson, ghoulia yelps

[lascitasdelashoras]

Julie Cristie en el film de Francois Truffaut - Fahrenheit 451

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On December 26, 1966 Fahrenheit 451 debuted in Sweden.

[donnerpartyofone]

Even though it pains me that my expensive new phone's camera refuses to focus on an entire close-up image, even a flat one, and I am assured by many forums and reddits and the like that I'm doing it right and this camera just sucks, I will still share one of the great, sadly uncredited illos from my little old copy of Ray Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun (great title stolen from a Yeats poem).

I've never read any Bradbury before, except for Fahrenheit 451 in high school which I compared so unfavorably with 1984 that I maybe didn't give it a fair try. Anyway, some of these short stories are good--or parts of them are, individually. I find him overly flowery at times, like he'll start out with a really strong description that catches my interest, but then he ruins it by continuing to add adjectives and similes just to be novel, and it's like buddy you nailed it a minute ago, what are you doing to yourself? And a lot of it is excessively sentimental in this kind of condescending way. For me the perfect example of his affect (so far) is a story where about 90% of it is just this beautiful description of a guy walking around in the suburbs on a November night, it's just captivating and the pleasure the character takes in this activity is so vividly conveyed--but then at the last minute it turns into this thing about how he's being thrown in a mental institution because he likes to go outside and read books instead of watching TV all the time, and it's just so smug and obnoxious.

There's a certain trend in science fiction, maybe it's partially his fault but it seems like a natural temptation, to congratulate the present, or even the recent past, for being so wholesome and righteous. Which is like, dystopia is a trope that I enjoy for sure, but there's a difference between saying "Humanity could be headed in a bad direction due to certain vices and imbalances," and saying "Humanity should leave everything exactly the way it is right now (or the way it was in my romanticized memories of my own childhood) because it's already perfect." It's very easy to become hyper-conservative and self-satisfied about your personal good old days. I wish I had a bunch of examples at the ready, I'm sure you can think of some or you'll notice it next time you see one, but very often the hinge issue is books. Like even as a reader and also a writer, I feel a little insulted by stories where ultimate virtue is exemplified by a character's love of reading, or villains are clearly identified because they hate books for whatever reason. OK, we get it, you're better than everybody else because you write! Good thing we're in the club too, how else could we be reading a book right now if we weren't inherently superior to the rest of the universe?

Anyway, the story this illo is from got me thinking about the notion of prescience in fiction. Like once in a while you get truly weird visions of the future (I just wrote this thing about futuristic frissons in each of the Cronenberg kids' first films), but I suspect that sometimes what seems to be a prophecy of the future is really just an acknowledgment of something inevitable. "The Murderer" takes place in a future where there is absolutely constant stimulation being broadcast from every quarter; all of life is one big billboard, there's no relief from being in constant electronic contact with everyone you know, and there's entertainment blasting out of everywhere in a continuous onslaught of overstimulation. The title character starts "murdering" all the devices, and all the stuff in his smart home, until he gets institutionalized. And on the most obvious level it's just Bradbury congratulating himself for being such a balanced and thoughtful person, again, but it's also like well, all that stuff was really coming. And did Bradbury really need to be (as they called him) the Greatest Living Science Fiction Writer in order to see it coming? Or was it just obvious, from ordinary trends in human behavior, that life would inevitably tend toward this state of constant connectivity and constant stimulation, with an eventual eradication of peace and privacy?

I used to like to listen to Damien Echols talk about all his occult learnings from his monastic existence in prison, and something he would say (he probably got this from somewhere else and I missed it) is that a prophet is not someone who predicts the future; a prophet is a person who understands the past. This made a lot of sense to me, that if you're sharp enough to see what generally happens, it's easy enough to see where things are headed. I think this is probably true of a lot of fiction we'd call prescient-- that if you look closely, it becomes clear that what it describes is sadly obvious.

[horrororman]

Notable films that were released on November 14th...

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)(Chicago).

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)(US).

Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985)(US).

Neon Maniacs (1986)(US).

Slaughter High (1986)(US).

Castle Freak (1995)(US).

#BarbaraCrampton

Unbreakable (2000)(premiere).

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