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    The pro­tag­o­nist of Ray Brad­bury's Fahren­heit 451 is a "fire­man" tasked with incin­er­at­ing what few books remain in a domes­tic-screen-dom­i­nat­ed future soci­ety forced into illit­er­a­cy. Late in life, Ray Brad­bury declared that he wrote the nov­el because he was "wor­ried about peo­ple being turned into morons by TV."
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    "Fahren­heit 451 is not, he says firm­ly, a sto­ry about gov­ern­ment cen­sor­ship," wrote the Los Ange­les Week­ly's Amy E. Boyle John­son in 2007. "Nor was it a response to Sen­a­tor Joseph McCarthy, whose inves­ti­ga­tions had already instilled fear and sti­fled the cre­ativ­i­ty of thou­sands."
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    From HBO comes a teas­er trail­er for an upcom­ing adap­ta­tion of Ray Brad­bury's Fahren­heit 451, a film that went into pro­duc­tion a year before the 2016 election-that is, before things in Amer­i­ca took a turn for the worse and the weird.That life has start­ed to imi­tate Brad­bury's art has­n't been lost on the film's direc­tor, Ramin Bahrani, who ...
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    Ray Brad­bury's Fahren­heit 451 envi­sions a future where "fire­men" are sent out not to put out fires, but to burn up any books they find with flamethrow­ers. To stu­dents assigned to read the nov­el today, the idea of an Amer­i­ca that has out­lawed books entire­ly might seem like an intrigu­ing if far-fetched notion, per­haps more suit­ed to the real­i­ty ...
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    Relat­ed con­tent: Watch Very First Film Adap­ta­tions of Shakespeare's Plays: King John, The Tem­pest, Richard III & More (1899-1936) The First-Ever Film Ver­sion of Lewis Carroll's Tale Alice in Won­der­land. Watch the Trail­er for the Long-Lost First Film Adap­ta­tion of The Great Gats­by. When François Truf­faut Made a Film Adap­ta­tion of Ray Bradbury's ...
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    Stead­man repaid the com­pli­ment when he said that he con­sid­ers Fahren­heit 451 "as impor­tant as 1984 and Ani­mal Farm as real pow­er­ful social com­ment," and he should know, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly poured his artis­tic ener­gies into a 1995 edi­tion of George Orwell's decep­tive­ly sim­ple alle­go­ry of the Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion and its con­se­quences.
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    Add to this the pro­lif­er­at­ing amuse­ments of the online world, video games, etc. and we can see Brad­bury's Fahren­heit 451 not as a dat­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tion of 40s fas­cism or 50s repres­sion, but as a too-rel­e­vant warn­ing to a dis­tractible soci­ety that deval­ues and destroys edu­ca­tion and fac­tu­al knowl ...
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    Whether, as a stu­dent, you read the bowd­ler­ized or the "adult" ver­sion of Bradbury's nov­el, per­haps it's time to revis­it Fahren­heit 451, par­tic­u­lar­ly now that free­doms of thought, belief, and expres­sion have again come under intense scruti­ny.And in addi­tion to re-read­ing Bradbury's nov­el, you can lis­ten to the 1971 radio play above.
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    Includ­ing some of the most impor­tant films ever made. Watch films by Luis Buñuel and Sal­vador Dali, Char­lie Chap­lin, Dzi­ga Ver­tov, D.W. Grif­fith, Alfred Hitch­cock, Sergei Eisen­stein, Fritz Lang, F.W. Mur­nau and many more. For more great films, please vis­it our com­plete col­lec­tion of Free Movies Online.
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    Along with Astound­ing Sci­ence Fic­tion and The Mag­a­zine of Fan­ta­sy and Sci­ence Fic­tion, Galaxy Mag­a­zine was one of the most impor­tant sci­ence fic­tion digests in 1950s Amer­i­ca. Ray Brad­bury wrote for it-including an ear­ly ver­sion of his mas­ter­piece Fahren­heit 451-as did Robert A. Hein­lein, Isaac Asi­mov, Fred­erik Pohl, Theodore ...
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