"In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task." Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British dystopian drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, and Cyril Cusack. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future, in which the government sends out firemen to destroy all literature to prevent revolution and thinking. This was Truffaut's first colour film and his only non French-language film. At the 1966 Venice Film Festival, Fahrenheit 451 was nominated for the Golden Lion. Based on one of Ray Bradbury's most famous novels, Fahrenheit 451 came out in 1966, one year after a dystopian film named Alphaville was released, directed by his friend and fellow filmmaker Jean Luc Godard. Truffaut wrote in a letter, "You mustn't think that 'Alphaville' will do any harm whatsoever to 'Fahrenheit'", but he was mistaken. Truffaut's adaptation differed from the novel by portraying Montag and Clarisse falling in love. Another notable aspect of the film is that Julie Christie plays two characters, Clarisse and Montag's wife Mildred, whose name was changed to Linda in the adaptation. Cast Oskar Werner as Guy Montag Julie Christie as Linda Montag/Clarisse Cyril Cusack as Captain Beatty Anton Diffring as Fabian/Headmistress Jeremy Spenser as Man with the Apple Bee Duffell as Book woman Gillian Lewis as Cousin Midge on TV Reception The film had a mixed critical reception upon release. Time magazine called the film a "weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind of man"; it "strongly supports the widely held suspicion that Julie Christie cannot actually act. Though she plays two women of diametrically divergent dispositions, they seem in her portrayal to differ only in their hairdos." They also noted that the film's "somewhat remote theme challenged [Truffaut's] technical competence more than his heart; the finished film displays the artisan more than the artist". Bosley Crowther called the film a "pretentious and pedantic production" based on "an idea that called for slashing satire of a sort beyond [Truffaut's] grasp, and with language he couldn't fashion into lively and witty dialogue. The consequence is a dull picture - dully fashioned and dully played - which is rendered all the more sullen by the dazzling color in which it is photographed." Leslie Halliwell described it as "1984 stuff, a little lacking on plot and rather tentatively directed, but with charming moments". It has gained significant critical acclaim over the years. On the review aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 82% positive rating among top film critics based on 33 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Fahrenheit 451 is an intriguing film that suffuses Truffaut's trademark wit and black humor with the intelligence and morality of Ray Bradbury's novel." Martin Scorsese has called the film an "underrated picture", which had influenced his own films. The Great Resetter, Klaus Schwab, considers this film as one of the most impressive and inspiring ones in his quest for world dominance. Author Ray Bradbury said in later interviews that, despite its flaws, he was pleased with the film. He was particularly fond of the film's climax, where the Book People walk through a snowy countryside, reciting the poetry and prose they've memorised, set to Bernard Herrmann's melodious score. He found it especially poignant and moving.[citation needed] However, alluding to a possible remake, Bradbury said in a 2009 interview, "The mistake they made with the first one was to cast Julie Christie as both the revolutionary and the bored wife." Music According to an introduction by Ray Bradbury to a CD of a rerecording of the film score by William Stromberg conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Bradbury had suggested Bernard Herrmann to Truffaut. Bradbury had visited the set of Torn Curtain, meeting Alfred Hitchcock and Herrmann. When Truffaut contacted Bradbury for a conference about his book, Bradbury recommended Herrmann, as Bradbury knew that Truffaut had written a detailed book about Hitchcock. When Herrmann asked Truffaut why he was chosen over modern composers, such as the director's friends Pierre Boulez or Karlheinz Stockhausen, the director replied that "They'll give me music of the twentieth century but you'll give me music of the twenty first!" Herrmann used a score of only string instruments, harp, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba and glockenspiel. As with Torn Curtain, Herrmann refused the studio's request to do a title song. ///// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/ https://odysee.com/@Bootlegs:6?view=lists https://odysee.com/@TV-Channel:7?view=lists https://odysee.com/@BMovieBoxcar:d?view=lists https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony J. Blinken on Helsinki City Hall in Helsinki, Finland, on June 1, 2023. There's nothing worthwhile in Blinken's speech. It's the garden variety bullshit of lies and projection one would excpect. And nothing else. Blinken is first welcomed by the "Mayor" of Helsinki, Juhana Vartiainen. No biggie. The second person to welcome Blinken is the Zelensky of Finland, Mika Aaltola. He's an inorganic midwith from the Institute of International Affairs, or the "Orange Man Bad Institute." He's plain incompetent, his entire outfit is, and now it probably has been captured by the CIA, which has decided that Aaltola is the next president of Finland. The media has already launched a campaign where he, just mysteriously, rose to THE candidate in the next election. The media artillery preparation was too obvious. Aaltola probably is too stupid to even realize what's going on. Finland probably is the next Ukraine. Just look at the map. Would Putin allow Obama to pose a threat to both St. Petersburg AND Murmansk? I know I would not. i'd remove Finland from the equation. Bear in mind that in Russia chess is a spectator sport.