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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (csdf)
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Subject: Re: _1984_  (spoiler)
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 03:17:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 03:17:20 1985
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In article <799@oddjob.UUCP> cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) writes:
>                 _1984_
>
>           The book vs. the film
>     The film _1984_ has an unfortunate difference in emphasis from the book.

I didn't find it unfortunate. The movie was great.

>There are strong hints throughout the book that the affair with the girl 
>was set up merely to destroy his capacity to figure out when he was being
>lied to.  (It worked.)

Maybe I should read it again, but I didn't perceive these "strong hints"
in that way, the film seemed accurate.

>left out is Orwell's 
>story of a man struggling to articulate his own ideas while being bombarded 
>with flashy rhetoric intended to dupe him otherwise.  
> I came away from the book convinced that Madison Avenue was just a 
>candy-coated version of IngSoc. I came away from the movie relieved that
>I'd never been tortured here in wonderful democratic America.  
> Has anyone else noticed this difference?
> Cheryl
Stewart
I don't think this is left out at all. The scenes in the Ministry of
Love contain a lot of dialogue that brings this subjecct to the
forefront. Also, you should consider that a movie is an interpretation
of a book, not a copy of it. 
I didn't notice the difference you mention. (also, I think you are
putting a little too much faith in the American Government, but that's
another flame :-)

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack.
    No one knows about it."
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