December 2, 2014 · 8:35 pm
Oskar Werner as Guy Montag in François Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451”
François Truffaut, the champion of children and misfits, was the perfect writer/director to lead the way in bringing Ray Bradbury’s classic, “Fahrenheit 451,” to the screen. If Bradbury had tapped into the anxiety and conformity attached to the dawn of the television age with the publication of his novel in 1951, then by 1966, Truffaut was making the case with all the more evidence. To make the point in a fresh way, for the time, we begin with various close-ups of TV aerial antennas superimposed upon brash colors.
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January 29, 2014 · 7:50 pm
FAMOUS MONSTERS #272 HISTORY OF SCI-FI (NEWSSTAND)
Consider this scenario: A man finds himself apparently the sole survivor of a world-wide pandemic. He searches for more survivors and a cure. Sound familiar? Well, welcome to the source: Richard Matheson’s groundbreaking 1954 Sci-Fi classic, I AM LEGEND. Or about this scenario: A world-wide plague has wiped out most of the population. Survivors fight for what little resources remain. Again, sound familiar? Well, go back even further to another source: Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking 1826 Sci-Fi classic, THE LAST MAN. Starting to see a pattern? You get a look at a wide variety of Sci-Fi interconnections in the latest issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS, #272. Half the issue is a tribute to writer Richard Matheson, who passed away in 2013, and the other half is a brief history of Sci-Fi literature.
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Retro Movie Review: François Truffaut’s FAHRENHEIT 451
Oskar Werner as Guy Montag in François Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451”
François Truffaut, the champion of children and misfits, was the perfect writer/director to lead the way in bringing Ray Bradbury’s classic, “Fahrenheit 451,” to the screen. If Bradbury had tapped into the anxiety and conformity attached to the dawn of the television age with the publication of his novel in 1951, then by 1966, Truffaut was making the case with all the more evidence. To make the point in a fresh way, for the time, we begin with various close-ups of TV aerial antennas superimposed upon brash colors.
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Filed under François Truffaut, Movie Reviews, movies, Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi, science fiction
Tagged as Book Banning, Books, dystopian fiction, dystopias, Education, Entertainment, Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut, Guy Montag, Julie Christie, Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Social Commentary, The '60s