#charrington 1984

[hydehj17]

please does know "1984! the musical!"? it's an Australian musical and it's a REALLY GOOD and funny adapt of 1984 I've been obsessed with it since I found it last year and I NEED to tell more people about it please it's so good it's driving me insane Charrington is in drag, Winston is even more pathetic than the book and O'Brien is so baby girl who literally laughs like "ho ho ho"

i thought if anyone else knew it they would be on tumblr if you see this and haven't listened to it yet PLEASE DO IT ITS SO GOOD

[denimbex1986]

'Audible has been pushing the boat out lately with its dramatisations of literary classics, and this adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, marking 75 years since it was published, is a dark delight. Andrew Garfield leads a starry cast as Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth trying to keep a lid on his frustrations with the Party, the ruling power that controls everything in the state of Oceania including what its citizens do, say and think. The omniscient Big Brother, voiced by Tom Hardy, keeps tabs on everyone via telescreens and brutally punishes dissenters, though this doesn’t stop Winston from purchasing a notebook to write down his illegal thoughts.

Cynthia Erivo plays Julia, who persuades Winston to take a trip out of the city and to the countryside where they indulge in some noisy alfresco fun that is best heard via the privacy of your own headphones. Meanwhile, Andrew Scott is quietly terrifying as O’Brien, an Inner Party member who tricks Winston into believing he is part of a revolutionary group called the Brotherhood. After exposing his wrongdoing, O’Brien spends months brainwashing Winston through acts of torture based on his private nightmares.

There are some good supporting turns from Romesh Ranganathan as Parsons, described as “a man of paralysing stupidity”, and Chukwudi Iwuji as the duplicitous Charrington, who rents out the room where Winston and Julia conduct their secret trysts. The score comes courtesy of Muse frontman Matt Bellamy and composer Ilan Eshkeri, and brims with melodrama and menace.'

[incorrectclassicbookquotes]

O'Brien talking about Winston and Julia: Well if they show up I wish you'd call me.

Charrington: Sure, I've got nothing better to do with my miserable life than call you.

[ahomelesscloud]

i just finished reading 1984 by george orwell and it has me feeling UNWELL.

1) no female will continue boinking a guy when they say to her face that he wanted to r word her and then unalive her when he first say her. I HATED WINSTON FOR SAYING THAT TO JULIA

2) it was such a slow read in the beginning but the last part had me on a chokehold because it went downhill so fast and had me hooked.

3) the whole concept of doublethink and thoughtcrime is so crazy???? i need to scream about this book because i cannot get it out of my system. winston being played my mr. charrington and o’brien made me feel bad about him.

4) julia saying that sex is their biggest weapon of revolution because they don’t want you orgasming and want that hysteria to use in wars and stuff is insane but makes a lot of sense.

5) i’m actually scared at how it’s human nature to throw anyone under the bus when you’re facing something you’re shit scared about. when o’brien said that it’s not cowardly to clutch at a rope when you’re falling down or breathe in deep air after feeling like you were drowning but it’s something normal affected me sm😭😭

6) I HAVE SM MORE TO SAY BUT I NEED TO SAH IT OUT LOUD AND SCREAM IT BECAUSE THIS BOOK JAS SUCCESSFULLY ALTERED MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY

[meatycatastrophe]

Done with Part 2 of 1984, damn they got captured, and damn Mr. Charrington is such a daddy —in my head.

[memorableconcerts]

The Woodentops - Pavilhão de Paço D’Arcos - Lisboa - Portugal

30 de Julho de 1988

1ª parte PESTE & SIDA

Price: 6,50€

Não me foi oportuno ver antes no Rock Rendez Vous!

The Woodentops began 1983 with Rolo McGinty, Simon Mawby, Alice Thompson, and Paul Hookham. Known to busk and perform at South London art house warehouse type venues/parties . Rehearsing at Panni Bahrti's (then Charrington) warehouse at Clapham Junction, where the band worked until 1988. This was a hotbed of experimental film and graphic design, Panni desgining the bands vinyl / cd artwork / film and stage show.

The band progressed to conventional venues. At this time the bands electronic influences such as Kraftwerk, Can and Suicide became blurred by the band acheiving its own sound, a hybrid of hi speed hypnotic acoustic rock. Early reviews saw them as a type of Violent Femmes/ Feelies group but increasingly Rolo, the main writer, would write new kinds of song in a desire to not repeat themselves.

This never changed with record companies and reviewers finding them harder to pigeonhole.

the Woodentops recorded the first single Plenty for Food records in 1984, followed by support tours for artists such as Julian Cope and Everything But the Girl. John Peel picked the group for several BBC sessions on his show and championed the group untill his death. Frank de Freitas and Benny Staples became the definative rhythm section.

Rough Trade records signed the group, leading to a canonade of highly respected singles "Move me", "Well Well Well" and "Good Thing" . The album "Giant" saw them reaching the top 30 in the conventional charts, whereas all singles and albums attained number one spots in the independant charts. The live album "Hypnobeat Live" maintained the number one indie position for several weeks.

This live lp spawned "Why Why Why" one of the first big hits of the late 80s club scene in Ibiza. "Woodenfoot Cops on the Highway", the 2nd studio album, followed in 1987 and the band toured worldwide. Two singles from the album were released, and a final single "Tainted World" was power played on the NYC garage station by Tony Humphries. 

[sluttish-armchair]

Come to Charrington’s shop of horrors antiques! The place where everyone can get arrested by the thought police cool trinkets.

[britishchick09]

1984 was on tv and i watched some of it even though it was way past midnight! :D

[franz-katka]

Mr. Charrington will be like “I know a spot” and then take you to some secret spying room disguised as a private getaway

[bad-1984-aus]

1984 but everyone has there own quirk Like in Homestuck

i’ve never read homestuck, so i don’t know if this is accurate or not, but i read up on it a little and this what i came up with:

winston alternates capitalisation in letters lIkE tHiS because he is a major pissbaby. he sometimes uses all caps or drags out letters at the end of a word if he is stressed (for example, “OH GOD RATSSSSS”). other than that, he’s pretty generic, because he’s boring.

julia speaks in all lowercase like this. she replaces all of her os with *s because she’s a star she gets past the censors :) (for example, “i l*ve you”). she never speaks in capitals ever because all of her emotion is limited to sarcasm and other general happiness that can be expressed in lowercase.

o’brien replaces all Ss with 2s and all Es with 5s (for example, “W5 will m55t in th5 plac5 with no darkne22”). he speaks in fully punctuated sentences and uses a wide range of vocabulary because he’s a fucking lawless bastard.

parsons replaces all of his ls with 1s and speaks constantly in all caps 1IKE THIS. THIS IS BECAUSE HE’S A VERY 1OUD PERSON. NO, HE CANNOT CHANGE THIS. NO, HE WI11 NOT SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS IS PARSONS. 1ET’S MOVE ON.

charrington speaks in fully punctuated sentences like o’brien, but very often cuts off midsentence (for example, “Oranges and Le” “mons say the bells of St” “Clements”). uses lots of old and unusual vocabulary which nobody can understand without google.

syme speaks with every word capitalised Like This. it’s because he’s An Intellectual. like winston, he speaks in all caps when pressured, but unlike winston, it’s often accompanied with an erratic use of punctuation (for example, “ROOM ONE-OH-ONE?!?!?!?:?:??:!;!;&?;£;72)38)3£37262!?”).

big brother types solely in the horror font

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(if i got anything wrong lmk in the notes lmao! again, idk homestuck at all so I’m sorry if this is all wrong lol)

[arqueervist]

@franz-katka hello! I'm your 1984 secret Santa!!

Heard u liked Charrington and had a cat design blog. Hope you like this gift!!

[lardedallwithsweetflowers]

There was always a running joke in British showbusiness that the one thing you could never do was to act with children, animals — or Cyril Cusack. He was a shocking scene stealer. He could upstage anybody.

CYRIL CUSACK (b. 26 November 1910) as Charrington in NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1984)

[denimbex1986]

'Prepare to hear George Orwell's 1984 like you've never heard it before, with a new adaptation coming to Audible – and RadioTimes.com has an exclusive first listen!

The audio clip, which you can listen to below, features Andrew Garfield and Andrew Scott and takes place in the story's infamous Room 101.

As can be heard, Winston (played by Garfield) is in the torture chamber in the Ministry and is being put through a harrowing ordeal by O'Brien (played by Scott).

We won't spoil too much so you can listen to the eerie six-minute clip and get a taste of what the full audio story will be like.

...You can listen to the whole thing when George Orwell's 1984 is released on Audible worldwide on April 4th 2024.

You can pre-order the audiobook now or sign up for an Audible subscription – if you're quick, there's currently a limited time deal to get three months of Audible for just 99p.

The Audible adaptation has a star-studded line-up, with Cynthia Erivo as Julia and Tom Hardy as the always watching Big Brother alongside Scott and Garfield.

Other casting includes Romesh Ranganathan as Parsons, Natasia Demetriou as Mrs Parsons, Chukwudi Iwuji as Charrington, Francesca Mills as Syme, Katie Leung as Ling and Alex Lawther as Ampleforth, alongside a full ensemble.

The Audible adaptation will transport listeners into the dystopian world of Orwell's 1984, with Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy and Ilan Eshkeri having created an original score performed by a 60-piece orchestra.

Aurelie de Troyer – Head of Regional Content, Europe at Audible – said: "This is 1984 like you've never heard it before. We've assembled a top team of creatives across the board, and the combination of the principal cast and Matt and Ilan's epic soundtrack is something quite extraordinary.

"Andrew Garfield was born to play Winston – just wait until you hear his performance."

The adaptation has been authorised and endorsed by the Orwell estate, with George Orwell's son Richard Blair calling it "sensational" with a "brilliant cast".'

[bl00dline]

spoilers for 1984–

OH MY GOD MR CHARRINGTON WHY. HE WAS THE ONLY CHARACTER I THOUGHT WASNT SUS OH MY GOD. I THOUGHT JULIA WAS PART OF THE THOUGHT POLICE AND I WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS MR CHARRINGTON OH MY GOF OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

i haven’t finished the book so please don’t comment anything about the ending :)

[thealmightyemprex]

Spontaneous September :NIneteen Eighty Four

This 1984 film (Appropriate year ) follows Winston (John Hurt ) as he falls in love with Julia (Suzanna Hammilton ) within an oppressive regime .So this movie has been on my list for a while ,so felt like a fitting film to end Spontaneous September ....And I am glad I watched it cause it was a solid film .Now first things first ,this is not a happy film ....But its not as depressing as I feared ,I think it is the right amount of dark . Now I have never read the book,though I have seen the 1954 TV movie version starring Peter Cushing ,which this is very similar to(Heck Peter Cushing and John Hurt are even very similar actors ) .If I had to nail down what was my favorite aspect about the film ,its the style:The film is BEAUTIFULLY ugly .EVerything is impressive but unpleasent looking . The director Michael Radford said he wanted the film to look like a Sci Fi film that was made in the late 40's, the time the book was written ,and it works,the whole thing has a dingy yet retro look to it . All of the supporting cast is solid,they feel like real people and not movie characters ,with special props to Suzanna Hamilton as Julia,Cyril Cusack as Mr Charrington and Gtregor Fisher as PArsons . This film is famous for being the final performance of Richard Burton ,who plays the main villain O Brien ,and while for me Burton is hit or miss ,he is brillaint here ,being a very chilling antagonist .I also think this is one of the best performances of John Hurt ,who is perfectly cast as the lead .Also there is a scene in this movie that involves rats,,,,,,I am not afraid of rats,,,,But that scene is terrifying,my face started aching.OVerall ,great way to end Spontaneous September cause this was a great movie

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[alchemist-shizun]

1984 AU

Alright here is just the plot, not the fic yet, I’m gving you a heads up and say that I haven’t read the book, just studied it at school and watched the movie so I might get some stuff wrong pardon me. Also I’m reading some sites online to be a bit more aligned with the book as well. Here ya go for now:

So I thought up Virgil as Julia and Roman as Winston.

Roman does the same job as Winston at the Ministry of Truth, in the Records Department, correcting the old newspapers as the Newspeak language changes and as people are deleted from history. (the nonpeople) He also has his same secret diary he uses to record his real thoughts for a future generation.

Virgil, on the other hand, will be a tad bit different from Julia, this is where my creativity comes in: Virgil is part of the Ministry of Peace, the one that instead elicits perpetual war. I was thinking of making him a soldier of sorts, part of the army, but so that he has to do surveillance in other Ministries. I'm not sure if this is an actual thing in the book, but it serves me as a plot device to make Roman and Virgil meet.

In fact, what's better than an army member who's a rebel in disguise?

So, as in 1984 Julia and Winston exchange glances, same happens here with our two boys. Virgil is walking around the Recdep for extra monitoring apart from the telescreens in every single working spot.

He stops to look at Roman and just stares at him as he works. Of course, when Roman notices, he takes it personally and begins nurturing hatred towards him.

After all, as someone who secretly hates everything related to the Government, I think it almost comes off as automatic.

As I said, I only watched the movie so far since, sadly, I'm in exams period and I have no time for reading, so I found the relationship between Julia and Winston to be far too rushed, so let's say that in this AU it takes a bit longer for them to properly interact.

What I'm saying is that basically at first Roman seems to find Virgil very often but they only exchange glances, especially challenging ones coming from Roman since he thinks that he's for some reason especially after him.

Then one night Roman is walking around and, by chance, meets Virgil again still in full gear. It's their first actual conversation

Of course it doesn't go well, it's all passive aggressive, but Roman has to take a step back as he believes Virgil could call the thought police on him at any second.

It was, regardless, the most emotion-provoking conversation he had ever had, which made him actually look forward to a possible second encounter. Basically, the old tale of feelings of attraction disguised as feelings of hatred.

On the other hand, Virgil is actually keeping up an act, he's looking for someone in different departments that would have the tough character to stand the Party up and join the Brotherhood with him. He is in fact actually working for Janus Goldstein, the leader of the rebellion.

Though he hasn't directly worked with Janus in a while, there's an intermediary called Alastair O'Brien, who Virgil is sure is pretending to work for the Party when he's secretly in the Brotherhood. Like the actual O'Brien, Alastair works in the Ministry of Truth and is actually an agent of the Thought Police.

In the meantime Roman gets to know Emile, who's got the role of Mr Charrington, the owner of the bizarre shop and that one upstairs room, the one that becomes relevant after a while in the plot.

Once, during the Two Minutes Hate moment of the day, Roman thinks he's seen Alastair glance at him, and at some point he was sure he had seen Virgil as well. He also gets convinced by a colleague to join him for the public execution. There he intercepts Virgil's eyes, who was on patrol around the plaza.

Roman eventually reaches him and finally confronts him, asking if he was following him on purpose. Virgil only stares at him and tells him to meet him at O'Brien's office the day after.

In short, that's where Roman finds out they're both members of the Brotherhood, here Alastair gives him a book written by Janus about the truth around the whole Ingsoc. Here Roman changes his view of Virgil, seeing a potential ally in him.

The two start meeting up in secret in Charrington's room, thinking up a plan and also developing feelings for each other but you know they're gay so they're oblivious

I'm gonna skip through all the romantic stuff so you can savour it fully when the fic is written with no spoilers

So yeah the rest of the plot is pretty much the same as 1984, the Thought police discovers both of them cause of Emile and Alastair and they're taken to the Ministry of Love to get tortured and brainwashed, eventually giving up (especially after Room 101 which is going to be f u n to think of their greatest fear for that huh)

When they meet up again, the feelings they had for each other are no longer there, they confess everything that's happened to them but they don't seem to care they've both been hurt.

And ... yeah. Bitter ending, just like that. Unless I change my mind, we'll see

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