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How much do I love Fahrenheit 451? So much that I've sort of been holding my breath a bit and chanting a mantra that nobody does a rehash. Er, remake. To my mind, Oskar Werner and Julie Christie and b/w are the One True Version.
I still look at my PC and my posting boards and remember the interactive wall-ongoing "family".
And look what I found. sob.
The Angry Red Planet.
It makes you think what might happen if Mars got mad at us.
Anyway, I think there are lots of "thoughtful" sci-fi movies....
Beverly, look:
Darabont, who will direct the film for Castle Rock, says that Mel Gibson will still be part of the project, but only as a producer.
How much do I love Fahrenheit 451? So much that I've sort of been holding my breath a bit and chanting a mantra that nobody does a rehash. Er, remake.
Okay, I haven't looked at ita's link yet, so I don't know how scary it is, but if ever there was a time to attempt a decent remake of this film, right now is it. We could use a movie with a really good message like 451.
Darabont about Gibson "he's a sweet man."
At least until you suggest his fictionalized homoerotic version of the cruxifiction shouldn't be taken as history.
t /hypergibsonbole
I think you are not allowed to call someone "a sweet man" after said man has fantasized in print about killing another person's dog. (That of Frank Rich, whose reply was, "I don't have a dog.")
Then again, I don't think I trust Frank Darabon't idea of what is and is not sweet. He probably thinks jalapenos are sweet; certainly he likes to pile on the syrup pretty thick in his own movies.
Well, I'm heartened that Gibson is apparently keeping his sticky fingers off it, except for producing (which, can influence mightily).
I just think the '66 version is a perfect film, small, personal, quiet, and very very affecting. I can't relate Montag's story to big-screen More!Fire!Effects!
I'm being a brat, aren't I? '66 is one of my most favorite films, one that affected me deeply the first time I saw it as a child, and every time I've seen it since. It means so much with the very reserved performance Werner gave, because he had this huge secret to keep.
And yes, I've often thought about which book I'd like to be, walking in the forest reciting it from memory.
It will probably be a very successful moneymaking movie. I'll just stay home and watch the b/w version again.
I'll just stay home and watch the b/w version again.
The Truffaut is in color, actually. Cinematography by Nicholas Roeg, in fact.
You're talking about the Truffaut version, right? That was in color.
I'll just stay home and watch the b/w version again.
I was just about to say that version was in color, but Frank beat me to it.
And if I remade the movieBeverly, I would keep it a small movie, without the WHIZ! BANG!