#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.

[bracketsoffear]

Journal 3 (Alex Hirsch) "Ford Pines travels to Gravity Falls, becomes obsessed with unraveling its paranormal mysteries, makes a deal with an all-seeing demon to achieve his dreams only to discover he's been duped, and descends into violent paranoia about being watched and keeping secrets."

1984 (George Orwell) "In 1984, civilisation has been ravaged by world war, civil conflict, and revolution. Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is a province of Oceania, one of the three totalitarian super-states that rule the world. It is ruled by "The Party" under the ideology of "Ingsoc" (a Newspeak shortening of "English Socialism") and the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party brutally purges out anyone who does not fully conform to their regime, using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through telescreens (two-way televisions), cameras, and hidden microphones. Those who fall out of favour with the Party become "unpersons", disappearing with all evidence of their existence destroyed.

In London, Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party, working at the Ministry of Truth, where he rewrites historical records to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history. Winston revises past editions of The Times, while the original documents are destroyed after being dropped into ducts known as memory holes, which lead to an immense furnace. He secretly opposes the Party's rule and dreams of rebellion, despite knowing that he is already a "thought-criminal" and is likely to be caught one day.

While in a prole neighbourhood he meets Mr. Charrington, the owner of an antiques shop, and buys a diary where he writes criticisms of the Party and Big Brother. To his dismay, when he visits a prole quarter he discovers they have no political consciousness. As he works in the Ministry of Truth, he observes Julia, a young woman maintaining the novel-writing machines at the ministry, whom Winston suspects of being a spy, and develops an intense hatred of her. He vaguely suspects that his superior, Inner Party official O'Brien, is part of an enigmatic underground resistance movement known as the Brotherhood, formed by Big Brother's reviled political rival Emmanuel Goldstein.

One day, Julia secretly hands Winston a love note, and the two begin a secret affair. Julia explains that she also loathes the Party, but Winston observes that she is politically apathetic and uninterested in overthrowing the regime. Initially meeting in the country, they later meet in a rented room above Mr. Charrington's shop. During the affair, Winston remembers the disappearance of his family during the civil war of the 1950s and his tense relationship with his estranged wife Katharine. Weeks later, O'Brien invites Winston to his flat, where he introduces himself as a member of the Brotherhood and sends Winston a copy of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Goldstein. Meanwhile, during the nation's Hate Week, Oceania's enemy suddenly changes from Eurasia to Eastasia, which goes mostly unnoticed. Winston is recalled to the Ministry to help make the necessary revisions to the records. Winston and Julia read parts of Goldstein's book, which explains how the Party maintains power, the true meanings of its slogans, and the concept of perpetual war. It argues that the Party can be overthrown if proles rise up against it. However, Winston never gets the opportunity to read the chapter that explains why the Party took power and is motivated to maintain it.

Winston and Julia are captured when Mr. Charrington is revealed to be an undercover Thought Police agent, and they are separated and imprisoned at the Ministry of Love. O'Brien also reveals himself to be a member of the Thought Police and a member of a false flag operation which catches political dissidents of the Party. Over several months, Winston is starved and relentlessly tortured to bring his beliefs in line with the Party. O'Brien tells Winston that he will never know whether the Brotherhood actually exists and that Goldstein's book was written collaboratively by him and other Party members; furthermore, O'Brien reveals to Winston that the Party sees power not as a means but as an end, and the ultimate purpose of the Party is seeking power entirely for its own sake. For the final stage of re-education, O'Brien takes Winston to Room 101, which contains each prisoner's worst fear. When confronted with rats, Winston denounces Julia and pledges allegiance to the Party.

Winston is released into public life and continues to frequent the Chestnut Tree café. He encounters Julia, and both reveal that they have betrayed the other and are no longer in love. Back in the café, a news alert celebrates Oceania's supposed massive victory over Eurasian armies in Africa. Winston finally accepts that he loves Big Brother."

[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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goldstein only types in 🎏⛎💶⚔️❗️🎵9️⃣ 3️⃣〽️⚽🎷❗️💲.

(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)

[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".'

[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)

[bracketsoffear]

Journal 3 (Alex Hirsch) "Ford Pines travels to Gravity Falls, becomes obsessed with unraveling its paranormal mysteries, makes a deal with an all-seeing demon to achieve his dreams only to discover he's been duped, and descends into violent paranoia about being watched and keeping secrets."

1984 (George Orwell) "In 1984, civilisation has been ravaged by world war, civil conflict, and revolution. Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is a province of Oceania, one of the three totalitarian super-states that rule the world. It is ruled by "The Party" under the ideology of "Ingsoc" (a Newspeak shortening of "English Socialism") and the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party brutally purges out anyone who does not fully conform to their regime, using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through telescreens (two-way televisions), cameras, and hidden microphones. Those who fall out of favour with the Party become "unpersons", disappearing with all evidence of their existence destroyed.

In London, Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party, working at the Ministry of Truth, where he rewrites historical records to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history. Winston revises past editions of The Times, while the original documents are destroyed after being dropped into ducts known as memory holes, which lead to an immense furnace. He secretly opposes the Party's rule and dreams of rebellion, despite knowing that he is already a "thought-criminal" and is likely to be caught one day.

While in a prole neighbourhood he meets Mr. Charrington, the owner of an antiques shop, and buys a diary where he writes criticisms of the Party and Big Brother. To his dismay, when he visits a prole quarter he discovers they have no political consciousness. As he works in the Ministry of Truth, he observes Julia, a young woman maintaining the novel-writing machines at the ministry, whom Winston suspects of being a spy, and develops an intense hatred of her. He vaguely suspects that his superior, Inner Party official O'Brien, is part of an enigmatic underground resistance movement known as the Brotherhood, formed by Big Brother's reviled political rival Emmanuel Goldstein.

One day, Julia secretly hands Winston a love note, and the two begin a secret affair. Julia explains that she also loathes the Party, but Winston observes that she is politically apathetic and uninterested in overthrowing the regime. Initially meeting in the country, they later meet in a rented room above Mr. Charrington's shop. During the affair, Winston remembers the disappearance of his family during the civil war of the 1950s and his tense relationship with his estranged wife Katharine. Weeks later, O'Brien invites Winston to his flat, where he introduces himself as a member of the Brotherhood and sends Winston a copy of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Goldstein. Meanwhile, during the nation's Hate Week, Oceania's enemy suddenly changes from Eurasia to Eastasia, which goes mostly unnoticed. Winston is recalled to the Ministry to help make the necessary revisions to the records. Winston and Julia read parts of Goldstein's book, which explains how the Party maintains power, the true meanings of its slogans, and the concept of perpetual war. It argues that the Party can be overthrown if proles rise up against it. However, Winston never gets the opportunity to read the chapter that explains why the Party took power and is motivated to maintain it.

Winston and Julia are captured when Mr. Charrington is revealed to be an undercover Thought Police agent, and they are separated and imprisoned at the Ministry of Love. O'Brien also reveals himself to be a member of the Thought Police and a member of a false flag operation which catches political dissidents of the Party. Over several months, Winston is starved and relentlessly tortured to bring his beliefs in line with the Party. O'Brien tells Winston that he will never know whether the Brotherhood actually exists and that Goldstein's book was written collaboratively by him and other Party members; furthermore, O'Brien reveals to Winston that the Party sees power not as a means but as an end, and the ultimate purpose of the Party is seeking power entirely for its own sake. For the final stage of re-education, O'Brien takes Winston to Room 101, which contains each prisoner's worst fear. When confronted with rats, Winston denounces Julia and pledges allegiance to the Party.

Winston is released into public life and continues to frequent the Chestnut Tree café. He encounters Julia, and both reveal that they have betrayed the other and are no longer in love. Back in the café, a news alert celebrates Oceania's supposed massive victory over Eurasian armies in Africa. Winston finally accepts that he loves Big Brother."

The Panopticon Writings (Jeremy Bentham) "The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham’s own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham’s Panopticon.

The Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, “a cruel, ingenious cage”, in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more—constructing the Panopticon produces not only a prison, but also a god within it. The Panopticon is a machine which on assembly is already inhabited by a ghost. It is through the Panopticon and the closely related theory of fictions that Bentham has made his greatest impact on modern thought; above all, on the theory of power. The Panopticon writings are frequently cited, rarely read. This edition contains the complete “Panopticon Letters”, together with selections from “Panopticon Postscript I” and “Fragment on Ontology”, Bentham’s fullest account of fictions. A comprehensive introduction by Miran Bozovic explores the place of Panopticon in contemporary theoretical debate."

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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 :)