View Poll Results: Fahrenheit 451 : Final Verdict

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  • * Waste of time. Wouldn't recommend it.

    0 0%
  • ** Didn't like it much.

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  • *** Average.

    5 35.71%
  • **** It is a good book.

    5 35.71%
  • ***** Liked it very much. Would strongly recommend it.

    4 28.57%
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Thread: September / Dystoptian Reading: Fahrenheit 451

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    Last night we watched the movie based on the book and based on the book loosely it was!

    Such a great disappointment... The story line was altered beyond recognition and characters felt like paradoies of themselves. Clarisse's role (who happened to play the wife as well - why? I have no idea.) was extended so much that I am wondering if the scenario writer or the director had a crush on her and could not bear letting her go.

    Considering that the movie was made more than 40 years ago, the sci-fi elements seemed almost funny but that was the only saving grace about the movie, I felt.

    It is worth watching still... Just to see how an alternative storyline to the book would have developed.

    The discussion thread for the movie: http://www.online-literature.com/for...cussionid=1446
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    Apologies for not making the 'screening' - I thought I'd post my comments here though, I watched it earlier this week.

    Now, I am not Jonathon Ross, but.....

    I'll echo Scheherazade here - a big disappointment, despite giving it the benefit of the doubt for being as old as it is.
    Montags accent got on my nerves and as much as I wanted to see more of Clarisse in the book, I felt she was overdone here. The relationship between Montag and Clarisse was a kind of mutual curiosity in the book (as I understood it) - this looked more like an affair waiting to happen.
    I didn't get the relationship between Montag and his wife - in the book, she was far more remote and helped to explain the 'society'. In fact, overall, I felt that it didn't capture even half of what the book was about.

    I didn't particularly like the end of the book, but I liked the end of the film even less so. What were Tweedledum and Tweedledee all about (sorry, Pride and Prejudice!).

    Saving Graces - well, it did begin to explain a bit about Montags journey from one point of view to another, but hardly in depth. And yes, a couple of the 'special effects' made me smile (particularly when they are chasing Montag using jet packs!).

    Oh, and I need some of those cones with flashing lights on them!! They would make my life much easier!

    If ever a film could do with a remake, then this is it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abookinthebath View Post
    The relationship between Montag and Clarisse was a kind of mutual curiosity in the book (as I understood it) - this looked more like an affair waiting to happen.
    I agree and this possibility somehow trivialised Clarisse's role in the story, I felt.
    I didn't get the relationship between Montag and his wife - in the book, she was far more remote and helped to explain the 'society'. In fact, overall, I felt that it didn't capture even half of what the book was about.
    The scenes involving "Linda" felt like they were badly written attempts at humour but they fell short... Her depiction was nothing more than a display of stereotypes.
    If ever a film could do with a remake, then this is it!
    Now, there is an idea... Who could we cast?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Now, there is an idea... Who could we cast?
    Hmm, what about Alan Rickman as Beatty (typecast, I know!), Faber (assuming they actually cast him!) could be Morgan Freeman (another typecast!), and Montag, hmmmmm, tricky one.......

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    PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

    “Shut up, shut up, shut up!” It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag
    found himself on his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staring,
    moving back from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry
    mouth, the flapping book in his fist. The people who had been sitting a
    moment before, tapping their feet to the rhythm of Denham’s Dentrifice,
    Denham’s Dandy Dental Dertergent, Denham’s Dentrifice, Denham’s
    Dentrifice Denham’s Dentrifice, one two, one two three, one two, one two
    three. The people whose mouths had been faintly twitching the words
    Dentrifice Dentrifirice Dentrifrice. The train radio vomited upon Montag, in
    retaliation, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium,
    and brass. The people pounded into submission; they did not run, there
    was no place to run; the great air train fell down its shaft in the earth.

    Questions :
    1. What is happening in this passage?
    2. What is meant by “the train radio vomited upon Montag”?
    3. What is meant by “the people pounded into submission”?
    4. Why is this passage significant in describing the society Montag lives within?
    Last edited by Alireza Rowhani; 04-20-2016 at 01:48 AM.

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    PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

    Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of
    the blue and hot summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand, because some
    cruel cousin had said, “Fill a sieve and you’ll get a dime!” And the faster he
    poured, the faster it sifted through with a hot whispering. His hands were
    tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty. Seated there in the midst
    of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks.

    Questions :
    1. What is the significance of this memory as Montag sits on the train? (pp. 7475)
    a. Think about what happens next in the story (pp. 7475)
    2. What does the author mean by “the sand was boiling”?
    Last edited by Alireza Rowhani; 04-20-2016 at 01:48 AM.

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