Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (csdf) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: _1984_ (spoiler) Message-ID: <240@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 03:17:20 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.240 Posted: Wed Jun 19 03:17:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 04:37:19 EDT References: <2107@ut-sally.UUCP> <295@wuphys.UUCP> <799@oddjob.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP () Distribution: net Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 38 Summary: 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." -Rev. Wang Zeep