Farenheit 451

[j. d. worthington]

You know, this place is good for inducing non-contact Heimlich maneuver...

[carrie221]

Originally Posted by steve12553

Maybe it will be as wonderful as Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds" *










*Irony- The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. AHDEL 1968

But yet you watched the movie anyways more than once... you could not have disliked it that much. Also don't you own this movie?

[steve12553]

Originally Posted by carrie221

But yet you watched the movie anyways more than once... you could not have disliked it that much. Also don't you own this movie?

The 1953 version was the much superior version by leaps and bounds. Neither one was close enough to the novel to suit me but the acting and the believablility of the characters in the 50s version was much more acceptable. I was very disappointed in Spielberg and Cruise was the same actor that did "a Few Good Men".

[steve12553]

My apologies for the off topic tangent. although good and bad movie versions of classic books is not too far afield.

[Dave]

I've just re-read this and I was surprised at how prophetic it is:

The people wear (I-pods) seashells in their ears that sing like thimble-wasps. How many times does that tinny sound annoy you on trains and buses?

They have full-wall TV screens that show only soaps or reality TV in which the result has been fixed. The media enslaves them and the actors are their substitute friends and family.

Everyone is more concerned with style than content, more with trivia than truth. The appearance of happiness is the highest goal, and drugs used to achieve it. Knowledge and ideas are bad if they do not conform to the politically correct norm.

It was written 53 years ago, but it could be today.

Also I realise now that the 'Rat-thing' in Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash' is the 'Mechanical Hound' in this.