THIS, this is what bothers me. I can hear the pitch meeting for this movie in my head, and it's not "There's a lot of talk about privacy and government and corporate surveillance going on at the moment, I think times good for an adaptation of 1984!", it's "Balls! We're running out of YA dystopia novels to film,…
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It was a live broadcast, performed like a play with live editing. It was pretty common in the very early days of television (and not just one off dramas like this, there were ongoing series that were all live performances, like Z Cars)
Which I haven't seen and which, if true, is a completely lame cop out.
GOOD GOD
You are a scholar and a gentleperson. No umbrage was taken and we shall proceed as though this mishap never took form or, as my fine and Ivy League educated cousin would exclaim:
I agree with your OP, suggesting a real 1984 movie would serve as a preventative measure or cautionary tale.
But the intellegentsia and academics are neither silenced nor cowed. It's just that the pablum-pushers have a bigger megaphone than we mere mortals. And the proles are all over the internet complaining that everyone is lazy and ignorant, and they rail against the ruling class. But it ain't 1984, no matter what the…
This is a sensible comment. —— I'm trying to think of something else to add but I can't think of anything.
I initially was appalled that you didn't remember the line and that someone thought it was Zoolander. But I can see how one could make that mistake and that I'm just a nerd.
She turned down the part.
A bevy of psycholinguistics in today's media does not a dystopia make. If this were 1984-ish at all, we would not be having this conversation. We are not special, gifted, or insightful nor given to any great awareness which eludes others. We have not broken the code and are not the brave resistance. We don't have the…
While we're at it, let's turn other dystopian novels into romantic movies! How about Brave New World? The chick is happy in her materialistic society that she's been conditioned to love, but then the hot guy from the reservation opens her eyes and she goes to live with him away from the oppressive society, and they…
Meryl Streep can.
Maybe they tried to get her (they ended up getting her boyfriend, so ...) and she had the decency of say no.
War is Peace, Hate is Love, Derp is Pathos.
...in an actual 1984 dystopia, turning on the news would be the last thing to do in order to observe the 1984ness of it all.
Look, Jennifer Lawrence cannot solve all our female casting problems.
This reminds me of that great idea I had for a Handmaid's Tale musical starring Lady Gaga. I was thinking of calling it O Gilead!