One of the great visionaries eh???

Remember a chapter in the book, where teens in automobiles would play many roadway games that endangered the lives of pedestrians, high rates of speed, chicken, etc. Another description in R.B.'s possibilities for our future, that has come true as far as that is concerned and shows no signs of falling off pace......The people of the future who have abandoned reading and literature of any kind, have the attention spans of gnats, and all commercials or radio broadcasts, are chopped into succint 10-30 second segments, so people won't get distracted by thinking on any one thing.........and everyone has a headphones or earpiece on whilst in public, conversation and eye-contact are ancient history........SOUND FUCKING FAMILIAR?????

And some folks think they know how to raise a child..........

also, the vidddy screens that folks have in their flats, are installed a wall at a time, so that eventually, one can by enough screens to cover every wall with viddy.......twisted sheit man, twisted sheit.......

By God it's a full-length feature!!!!!

Incidentally, Cyril Cusack is one of the clan of the Cussaktors...John, Joan, Richard and Brandon??


Way to go lurgee!!!!!!!!!!!

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A new film has been in the works since 2002:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_%282007_film%29

any movie older than me i have no patience for. like i had to turn this off after the helmets and weird firetruck right in the opening scene. like give me a break, but a crappy old lame film. no patience.

that's just me though.

rhettnye is our man of the future

I watched the whole thing. I liked the book much more than the movie, but that is usually the case.

An interesting film and it is always good to see Julie Christie! I prefer the book (I actually found my copy of Bradbury's book left on a desk when helping out in the school library - someone left it behind and never came back to claim it so after a year the head librarian let me have it! Makes a nice parallel with the content - finding the book by chance, reading and memorising parts in case the owner came back for it and treasuring it when it was given to me!) mostly because the film is a bit rough - it was Truffaut's first English-language film and he apparently didn't get on very well with Oskar Werner.

There is also a story that it snowed by chance during filming of that final scene and that when Bradbury saw it he loved that ending.

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Thx for posting this. This book used to be on the summer reading list back when I was in high school. Too bad I never bothered to read it, and went with Catcher in the Rye instead. HA!

You folks might be interested to read this interview with Ray Bradbury. He explains how 451 was never meant to be about censorship or governmental control. Rather it was about the people abdicating their intelligence to the "opiate" of television.

It's an interesting read, anyway.

this is actually a very cool movie. it shows how people in the 60s saw the "future" we are experiencing right now. i read the book and watched this movie a long time ago... sounds quite boring but it is very interesting.

definitley worth a look.

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