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sisyphusshrugged"The title of Moore's documentary is inspired by Francois Truffaut's 1966 film Fahrenheit 451, on a doomsday state where books are banned by a government that fears independent thinking..."
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:13 am (UTC)Oh wait, that's Fahrenheit 90210.
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:16 am (UTC)451 is the combustion/ignition temperature of paper, that's how Ray Bradbury novel. (which then made into movie)
WHAT is fahrenheit 911? in reference of the movie/novel? Is it restating 451 title?
...what? I guess I have to see the movie.
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Date: 2004-05-18 01:07 pm (UTC)"Farenheit 911" is supposed to be the temperature at which civil liberties burn. Or something like that. Either civil liberties or freedom. I have to admit, I like Moore's ability to get attention focused on a subject, but after listening to him for about 30 seconds all I hear is blah blah blah RANT RANT RANT blah blah RANT RANT so I tune him out.
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:27 am (UTC)I like to think that it was the kind of cultural faux pas that occur when one has--at least for an interval of time--his or her face directly up against something that blinds him or her to what's behind it. I admit that this particular instance, however, is even worse than thinking that The Beverly Hillbillies: The Movie was an original work, not based on the iconic TV series, The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:39 am (UTC)In fairness, auteurists are not unknown for their tunnel vision.
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Date: 2004-05-18 07:51 am (UTC)Unlike other dystopian novels like Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 doesn't have quite the same connection to the author, but it does have a very good film based on it, directed by a very classy dude.
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Date: 2004-05-18 09:20 am (UTC)Re: Sigh...
Date: 2004-05-18 09:36 am (UTC)play nice.
I'm a fan of the book. That's why the quote bothered me.
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Date: 2004-05-19 12:12 am (UTC)Second, good God, I had the same reaction as you. I wanted to shake the author of the article and scream "IT WAS A BOOK YOU IDIOT -- a book about how people only see film (or whatever you would call the TV type walls in the book) and are not allowed to read BOOKS -- and all you knwo of is the movie????? Argh...." Not to mention that Ray Bradbury is no one to ignore. Even if Truffaut may be more well-known in Cannes.
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