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1984
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VHS Tape - 11 February, 1997
Polygram Video
Availability: Used and ThirdParty
Director: Michael Radford
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Color
- Original recording reissued
- NTSC
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| VHS Tape Description Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret. Aside from criminalizing sex and interpersonal relationships, the ruling party in their country Oceania both fabricates reality and reconstructs history for the sake of oppressing the masses. They brainwash their citizens via large, propaganda-spewing TV monitors installed in their living rooms, which also inspect everyone's activities. Hurt and Hamilton are among the few we see desperately trying to fight the system by keeping control of their thoughts and beliefs. While the atmosphere becomes a bit too stifling at times, the images are quite striking with their muted colors and dilapidated sets. In an interesting bit of casting, Richard Burton costars (in his final role) as a government agent who surreptitiously exposes Hurt to the ideas of resistance. Unlike many like-minded films, 1984 does not offer a flashy vision of the future, but then that aspect makes it feel all the more real. In an age when more and more of our everyday activities are being scrutinized, Big Brother may not be so far off after all. --Bryan Reesman |
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Way before its time Excellent movie, and right up to date. Exactly whats happening now in the government. It is very ungood! Enjoy!
Radford removed the Eurythmics? I love this film and have always wanted to make a sequel, I'm just a little miffed that they took out the Eurythmics music. According to one reviewer it was on the insistence of the Director, now grant it I do also like Muldowney's score (and own that particular s-track) and feel the newly replaced tracks work well in maintaining a bleak a-tonal atmosphere, I still sorely miss the eurythmics music and feel Radford should have left it as it is or at least made SURE MGM included a 2nd audio track version.
This could be another unusual case of an artist not being the best judge of his own work, at least in my opinion I feel the eurythmics' added a unique flavor and spirit to the film. I can understand at the time Radford may have had studio pressure to use them as was overly common practice for just about any film made in the 80's to have a slapped on pop tune soundtrack from whoever the hottest flavor of the year was. Still i think this film was an unusual exception, interesting coincidence in the same year another pop group (Toto) surprised many with a great score for Dune.
disgracefull How can anyone take such a great book and make it into a movie SOOOOOO bad? I mean really, 1984 the book was a masterpiece, a book that has gone down in history as one of the most haunting predictions of the future ever written. Why then does its movie suck so badly? Theirs nothing even remotely good about this movie, just one boring scene after another after another after another. I just have to say that it was a darn good thing I read the book BEFORE I watched the movie otherwise I probably would have been so disgusted by the film that I would not have dared even think about buying the book. I wouldn't pick up this movie again if I found it lying on the street with a ten foot pole. STAY AWAY FROM THIS GOD AWFUL FILM AND JUST BUY THE BOOK.
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