Wednesday 7 October 2009

Fahrenheit: Exquisite corpse

Actors and Actresses
The main actors are:
• Montag: Oskar Werner
• Julie Christies: Linda (Montag´s wife):
• Clarisse (the women who introduces Montag to the books word)
• Cyril Cusack: the captain
• Anton Diffirng: Fabian
• Jeremy Spencer: a man with the apple

Characters:
They are a stereotype o f the two currents of the society at the period (traditionalism and social movements). On the one hand, Montage (at the beginning), his wife and the firemen represent the followers of traditionalism, and in the other hand, the readers, who are the opponents to the system (people who don’t accept the common). The main characters are: Montage, his wife, the firemen polices and a passive society.

Plot:
The movie represents a whole society which stays in a strange environment where books are forbidden and living unreal world created by the mass Medias and living inside of their TVs. It narrates the life of a fireman official named Montag, who has fallowed and defended the traditional rules of the society against the books (people´s negative conception and stereotype of what writing means -a craziness and madness). At the beginning hi´s a consecrated and awarded persecutor of the readings and readers, but at the end he knows a girl named Clarisse who introduces him in the world of the reading, asks him about reasons for why destroying books and by criticizing the behavior of the TVs viewers. At the end he starts to love books and keeps some of them in his own house. After that, he is denounced by his denounced own wife and discovered by his partners who try to making him changing his position and comportment. He refuses this and finishes being a convict by killing his superior. Finally, he ended as a closed friend of the ex-enemies saving books.

Relationship with the Book
The movie fallows the same structure that the books, but the ending was a little different. Though, they neglected a character who is quite important in the book, setting and place are quite alike our normal ones. So we can reflect on them easily.

Topics
An utopian world, where people are living an imaginary life.
Director´s Style: It is a narration of the human being. He uses the third person. It is science fiction and could be considered as a thought (stream consciousness).

2 comments:

  1. Although you state your possition about the movie, I think you should link paragraphs to make a whole one.
    Check some misuses: "an stereotype", "in the other hand", "an utopian", "fallow".
    I respectfully recommend you to clarify with at least one example the director's style.
    With a deserved respect.
    Franklin Alvarez.

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  2. Thanks for your comments. I corrected the first writing

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