“451 ° Fahrenheit” ( eng. Fahrenheit 451 ) is a feature film about an anti-utopian future based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name . The film was shot by director Francois Truffaut in 1966 , this is his first color film and the only one shot in English. The main roles were performed by Oscar Werner and Julie Christie . Filming took 93 days (from January 13 to April 15, 1966 ). All the credits in the film do not appear on the screen, but are read out loud in a voice-over.
| 451 ° Fahrenheit | |
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| Fahrenheit 451 | |
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| Genre | dystopia |
| Producer | Francois Truffaut |
| Producer | Lewis M. Allen |
| Author script | Jean-Louis Richard Francois Truffaut |
| In the main cast | Oscar Werner Julie Christie |
| Operator | Nicholas Roag |
| Composer | Bernard Herrmann |
| Film company | Universal pictures |
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Content
Story
The film tells about a society in which reading books is prohibited by law. People who keep books are arrested, and the books are burned by the so-called “Firemen”. The main character, Guy Montag , works as Firefighter, but does not want to put up with the existing ideology. 451 degrees Fahrenheit (this is about 233 ° C) is indicated as "the temperature at which the paper ignites and burns ."
The plot of the film is different from the novel. For example, Clarissa survives the film and at the end leaves the city with Montag. Faber's role is significantly reduced in the film: he appears only briefly in one scene like an old man sleeping on a park bench. Due to the fact that the film was shot in 1966, many of the elements of life described in the book are not present in the film.
Cast
- Oscar Werner - Guy Montag
- Julie Christie - Clarissa / Linda Monteg
- Cyril Cusack - Captain
- Anton Diffring - Fabian
Perception
Film press ambiguously reacted to the film after its release. Martin Scorsese called him undervalued, clearly influencing his own work. The author of the novel, Ray Bradbury, was pleased with the adaptation, but considered it a key mistake to approve the double role of Julie Christie [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ Jill Stewart. LA People 2009: The Writer - Ray Bradbury (eng.) . Los Angeles Weekly (April 22, 2009). The appeal date is June 27, 2014.