The book has a substantial premise as the abhorrence of book-burning is obvious and 451 degrees is the temperature they say books burn. Ray Bradbury wrote the original story quite a long time ago and the movie must be at least thirty years old but, what do you know, Texans are burning books with word processors rather than torches today.
Despite heavyweights in the production, it still sucked. It was directed by Francois Truffaut. Well, big stuff there. Oskar Werner plays the Fireman who develops a conscience. Julie Christie plays his shallow wife and also his revolutionary girlfriend.
It was frosting me somewhat that Werner was cast as the Fireman as his accent is clearly German and there's no way to tell if this was Truffaut swatting Germany for WWII book-burning. It's a valid swat but twenty years or so after isn't too sci-fi.
Awards:
Most Boring Breast-Fondling Scene in a Sci-Fi Movie
This is an extraordinary achievement when you can show a scene of Julie Christie fondling her own breast and make it as sexy as reading about car batteries. I have no idea why she felt the urge to do it. The scene had no apparent relevance to the story except as a weak example of her narcissism.
Coolest Fantasy People in a Sci-Fi Movie
Although the first ninety percent of the movie was egregiously turgid, somewhat brilliant but turgid, the last of it was special. This was when the Book People were introduced and they're the radicals who live on the fringe to preserve the books. They do it the only way they can, by memorizing them. There's a scene of the Book People walking about with all reciting the text from their different books and this was a magical view of just how far we will go to preserve knowledge.
Despite heavyweights in the production, it still sucked. It was directed by Francois Truffaut. Well, big stuff there. Oskar Werner plays the Fireman who develops a conscience. Julie Christie plays his shallow wife and also his revolutionary girlfriend.
It was frosting me somewhat that Werner was cast as the Fireman as his accent is clearly German and there's no way to tell if this was Truffaut swatting Germany for WWII book-burning. It's a valid swat but twenty years or so after isn't too sci-fi.
Awards:
Most Boring Breast-Fondling Scene in a Sci-Fi Movie
This is an extraordinary achievement when you can show a scene of Julie Christie fondling her own breast and make it as sexy as reading about car batteries. I have no idea why she felt the urge to do it. The scene had no apparent relevance to the story except as a weak example of her narcissism.
Coolest Fantasy People in a Sci-Fi Movie
Although the first ninety percent of the movie was egregiously turgid, somewhat brilliant but turgid, the last of it was special. This was when the Book People were introduced and they're the radicals who live on the fringe to preserve the books. They do it the only way they can, by memorizing them. There's a scene of the Book People walking about with all reciting the text from their different books and this was a magical view of just how far we will go to preserve knowledge.
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