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08/07/09
I also wonder who has watched the previous movie of this book which was aired on TV years ago.I own a copy of that film too.
Since we now live in such a PC world I hate to be pessimistic but i must as I do strongly feel that this movie will in the end be another Hollywood rape job.
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(Except Canadians oddly! They're little shorties at around 5'8"! Either that or they are just more honest in their measurements.)
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As a child this was one of my favourite reads. I hope that hollywood finally gets it right.
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I am wondering how they'll do the feelies though.
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In fact, putting "political correctness" aside entirely, the idea of the reservation savage, in the way that Huxley portrayed it, only makes sense in the same way that writers generally understand the future in reference to the present. In other words, it's an imagery that might have had some resonance for an author who was an impressionable child when Geronimo was still a living legend, but it has no resonance or basis in "reality" (and those quotes are doing a lot of work) for a contemporary imagining of the future.
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One thing's for sure, Ford is gonna be really happy about this movie coming out. Free advertising! (Though they'll probably donate a few cars for the inevitable chase scenes.)
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My problem would be the intense censorship. The government has crazy control over what you can read/what kind of science you can study - that’s pretty much everything that is important to me. One week and I’d be leading a solo rebellion against The World State.
Seriously though, I think that bad side is that there is no bad side. Experiencing pain, turmoil, difficulties, conflict and overcoming them or learning from them is a key part of being human. It could be said that the people in Brave New World can’t really appreciate the wonderful society the live in because they have no concept of any other life. That’s why they got so excited by John’s display of violence at the end.
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I have faith that Ridley Scott can work it out right. I used to think that DiCaprio was awful, primarily because I was a pre-teen when Titanic came out and girls my age would swoon over him all day. But then I grew up and realized he's a pretty amazing actor. Gilbert Grape knows what I am talking about
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Can't hurt to try.
Or to put it another way, it's not like it's keeping Scott from doing other projects, and it's not like I'm going to be missing out on some other DiCaprio project.
Worst case scenario? It sucks, and someone else tries again in another 20 years.
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12/16/08
CJ, what the frak are you smoking? They took a huge dump all over the source material, the ending was completely different then the book, Bernard was totally skipped over, and John the Savage was a cowboy hat wearing hick-moron who gets pushed off a cliff by his adoring fans at the end. It was like someone at a copy of the book, then drank appletini's and lemon drops until they puked, and someone filmed the aftermath.
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