Fahrenheit 451
by Fran?ois Truffaut, Laurent Bouzereau
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Actor: Annette Insdorf, Julie Christie, Lewis M. Allen, Oskar Werner, Ray BradburyDirector: Fran?ois Truffaut, Laurent Bouzereau
Brand: WERNER,OSKAR
Writer: Ray Bradbury
Writer: Fran?ois Truffaut
Writer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: David Rudkin
Writer: Helen Scott
Writer: Jean-Louis Richard
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Fahrenheit 451
DVD Review: Farenheit 451 DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd seen this movie numerous times growing up. When my 13 year old son read the book for a school book report, I wanted him to see the movie. It's hilarious to see the Firefighters chasing after Montag with their jet packs - you can see the strings holding them up! Still, great classic movie, and can't wait for the Mel Gibson updated remake.DVD Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Hurt by a glum-looking Oskar Werner (he apparently was feuding with Truffaut during filming) as Montag and the bizarre stunt casting of Julie Christie in both lead female roles, this movie adaptation of Bradbury's novel fails to deliver in any meaningful way.
DVD Review: Very nicely done!
Summary: 5 Stars
The initial DVD was received damaged and was not usable. Upon filling out the return form, we received a brand new copy. It was shipped promptly -- without any questions. We returned the damaged one. Transaction complete! Very professionally handled. Thanks!DVD Review: A classic anti-utopia
Summary: 4 Stars
Ray Bradbury was never a hard science sci fi writer as his Martian books were off in science when they were written, but in terms of literary acceptance he has led the pack.
Here a world where the printed word is being destroyed,
we see what can only be the fall of a civilization as motor manual's
are necessary to keeping cars going.
I've always wished that we would put the important elements to
something like stone that can't be bashed by vandals invading.
Memorization is how many of the bardic epic poems have come down to us,
but for non-poetry prose is very hard for most people,
so the idea of a lot of people each memorizing one book doesn't seem practical.
I liked the movie just the same and I think that it was made in Britain tells you a lot.
DVD Review: Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
The pairing of a Ray Bradbury story and direction of Francois Truffaut makes me as a Ray Bradbury fan wish that this pairing could have happened for more of his stories. The special features are well worth the DVD alone, and the film is of course absolutely amazing.
Description of Fahrenheit 451
A fireman is in charge of burning books in a future where reading is a crime.Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD
The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, Fran?ois Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with gasoline, and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct toward reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton
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