Poll of the Day > Fahrenheit 451 is just Baby's First Dystopian Novel

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PK_Spam 07/13/18 9:20:53 PM #1:	Outside of obvious exceptions like Hunger Games and the other young adult dystopias. But... yeah. Its so fucking simple and the basic moral of it outside of FACISM is television is bad. And it looks like the movie is cutting out the latter. --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905036205] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>Outside of obvious exceptions like Hunger Games and the other young adult dystopias. But... yeah. Its so fucking simple and the basic moral of it outside of FACISM is television is bad. And it looks like the movie is cutting out the latter.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 9:24:18 PM #2:	Harrison Bergeron is still the champion here. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905036353] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>Harrison Bergeron is still the champion here.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 07/13/18 9:38:05 PM #3:	--- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:905037051] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Monopoman 07/13/18 9:50:02 PM #4:	Lol, the book is a classic TC. --- BF ID: Birck #1559845599 Leads: Elaina, Senbon Miku, Tsovinar <cite>Monopoman posted [p:905037697] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>Lol, the book is a classic TC.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 10:00:49 PM #5:	Monopoman posted... Lol, the book is a classic TC. Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before. And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president. --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905038227] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>Monopoman posted...</cite> <quote>Lol, the book is a classic TC.</quote> Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before. And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 10:11:18 PM #6:	I like how Montags wife isnt in the movie because her whole purpose in the book was tv is bad and how ironic that would. --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905038767] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>I like how Montags wife isnt in the movie because her whole purpose in the book was tv is bad and how ironic that would.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 10:14:09 PM #7:	PK_Spam posted... And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president. Were you around for everyone talking about 1984 in 1984? Fun times. Pretty good movie, too. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905038938] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president.</quote> Were you around for everyone talking about 1984 in 1984? Fun times. Pretty good movie, too.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 10:22:20 PM #8:	Beatty is SO queer coded in the new movie its crazy. ~~Beattys all I like to read and write, but I have to do it in secret! But its soooo dirty and nobody could know I do this. Mmmmm Montag, read Crime and Punishment again.~~ Questionmarktarius posted... PK_Spam posted... And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president. Were you around for everyone talking about 1984 in 1984? Fun times. Pretty good movie, too. I wasnt even born until 10 years later. But was it that bad? Or did I misinterpret your comment and it was sarcasm --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905039321] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>Beatty is SO queer coded in the new movie its crazy. Beattys all I like to read and write, but I have to do it in secret! But its soooo dirty and nobody could know I do this. Mmmmm Montag, read Crime and Punishment again. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president.</quote> Were you around for everyone talking about 1984 in 1984? Fun times. Pretty good movie, too.</quote> I wasnt even born until 10 years later. But was it that bad? Or did I misinterpret your comment and it was sarcasm</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 10:23:51 PM #9:	PK_Spam posted... I wasnt even born until 10 years later. But was it that bad? Or did I misinterpret your comment and it was sarcasm Believe it or not, Reagan was actually more actively hated than Trump, so far anyway, probably because neither election was even close. Also, 1984 (1984) really is a pretty good movie. John Hurt sold the fuck out of it. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905039383] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>I wasnt even born until 10 years later. But was it that bad? Or did I misinterpret your comment and it was sarcasm</quote> Believe it or not, Reagan was actually more actively hated than Trump, so far anyway, probably because neither election was even close. Also, 1984 (1984) really is a pretty good movie. John Hurt sold the fuck out of it.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 10:25:47 PM #10:	~~I couldnt help but scream FLAME ON! when Montag (played by micheal B Jordan) burned that guy to death~~ --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905039459] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>I couldnt help but scream FLAME ON! when Montag (played by micheal B Jordan) burned that guy to death</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 10:28:31 PM #11:	Questionmarktarius posted... PK_Spam posted... I wasnt even born until 10 years later. But was it that bad? Or did I misinterpret your comment and it was sarcasm Believe it or not, Reagan was actually more actively hated than Trump, so far anyway, probably because neither election was even close. Also, 1984 (1984) really is a pretty good movie. John Hurt sold the fuck out of it. Yeah, 1984 is FANTASTIC. Im trying to get my sister to watch the movie with me soon. Thats why were watching 451 --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905039577] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>I wasnt even born until 10 years later. But was it that bad? Or did I misinterpret your comment and it was sarcasm</quote> Believe it or not, Reagan was actually more actively hated than Trump, so far anyway, probably because neither election was even close. Also, 1984 (1984) really is a pretty good movie. John Hurt sold the fuck out of it.</quote> Yeah, 1984 is FANTASTIC. Im trying to get my sister to watch the movie with me soon. Thats why were watching 451</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 10:31:23 PM #12:	PK_Spam posted... Yeah, 1984 is FANTASTIC. Im trying to get my sister to watch the movie with me soon. Thats why were watching 451 It's just too bad the only bluray release is Region-B, and the only watchable DVD I could find is a region-0 from Korea. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905039706] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>Yeah, 1984 is FANTASTIC. Im trying to get my sister to watch the movie with me soon. Thats why were watching 451</quote> It's just too bad the only bluray release is Region-B, and the only watchable DVD I could find is a region-0 from Korea.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 10:41:56 PM #13:	WOw! The ending to this movie was laughably bad and stupid. And the featurette has Micheal B jordan talking up the book like it was some cornerstone of society when it is, and was, just riding on the coattails of other dystopias. Questionmarktarius posted... PK_Spam posted... Yeah, 1984 is FANTASTIC. Im trying to get my sister to watch the movie with me soon. Thats why were watching 451 It's just too bad the only bluray release is Region-B, and the only watchable DVD I could find is a region-0 from Korea. Just watch it online ;) --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905040199] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>WOw! The ending to this movie was laughably bad and stupid. And the featurette has Micheal B jordan talking up the book like it was some cornerstone of society when it is, and was, just riding on the coattails of other dystopias. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>Yeah, 1984 is FANTASTIC. Im trying to get my sister to watch the movie with me soon. Thats why were watching 451</quote> It's just too bad the only bluray release is Region-B, and the only watchable DVD I could find is a region-0 from Korea.</quote> Just watch it online ;)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 10:43:31 PM #14:	PK_Spam posted... Just watch it online ;) Why? I have a Korean DVD that works in region 1. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905040294] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>Just watch it online ;)</quote> Why? I have a Korean DVD that works in region 1.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 07/13/18 10:48:40 PM #15:	PK_Spam posted... Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before. Considering what the author has repeatedly claimed the book was ACTUALLY about, 1984 wouldn't have influenced it in the slightest in terms of themes. That being said, neither was was the first dystopian future story ever written with a fascist government in control. Brave New World (the other story 1984 always gets compared to) came out nearly 20 years earlier (and that wasn't the first one either). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:905040515] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before.</quote> Considering what the author has repeatedly claimed the book was ACTUALLY about, 1984 wouldn't have influenced it in the slightest in terms of themes. That being said, neither was was the first dystopian future story ever written with a fascist government in control. Brave New World (the other story 1984 always gets compared to) came out nearly 20 years earlier (and that wasn't the first one either). </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 10:51:02 PM #16:	ParanoidObsessive posted... Brave New World Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet? I may have bought it already and forgot. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905040638] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote> Brave New World</quote> Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet? I may have bought it already and forgot.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Monopoman 07/13/18 11:08:12 PM #17:	Does any other beloved authors have a song about how badly they are wanted? I don't think so.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM" data-time=" --- BF ID: Birck #1559845599 Leads: Elaina, Senbon Miku, Tsovinar <cite>Monopoman posted [p:905041411] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>Does any other beloved authors have a song about how badly they are wanted? I don't think so.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM" data-time="</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
TentacleDemon 07/13/18 11:09:28 PM #18:	I just cut myself on this topic... <cite>TentacleDemon posted [p:905041459] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>I just cut myself on this topic...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 11:10:44 PM #19:	TentacleDemon posted... I just cut myself on this topic... actual dystopia fans hijacked the thread anyway. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905041515] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>TentacleDemon posted...</cite> <quote>I just cut myself on this topic...</quote> actual dystopia fans hijacked the thread anyway.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 07/13/18 11:12:01 PM #20:	Questionmarktarius posted... ParanoidObsessive posted... Brave New World Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet? I may have bought it already and forgot. Amazon seems to think it's been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, though I don't know from personal experience. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:905041565] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote> Brave New World</quote> Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet? I may have bought it already and forgot.</quote> Amazon seems to think it's been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, though I don't know from personal experience. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PK_Spam 07/13/18 11:13:18 PM #21:	Monopoman posted... Does any other beloved authors have a song about how badly they are wanted? I don't think so.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM" data-time=" Rebeccca Bloom didnt have to save mankind with that song But she did --- https://imgur.com/hCHZS1f <cite>PK_Spam posted [p:905041625] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>Monopoman posted...</cite> <quote>Does any other beloved authors have a song about how badly they are wanted? I don't think so.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM" data-time="</quote> Rebeccca Bloom didnt have to save mankind with that song But she did</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 11:15:19 PM #22:	ParanoidObsessive posted... Questionmarktarius posted... ParanoidObsessive posted... Brave New World Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet? I may have bought it already and forgot. Amazon seems to think it's been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, though I don't know from personal experience. Just checked and it turns out I already bought it. It's still shrinkwrapped for some reason. Also I seem to have two versions of Animal Farm and at least three versions of 1984. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905041704] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote> Brave New World</quote> Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet? I may have bought it already and forgot.</quote> Amazon seems to think it's been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, though I don't know from personal experience. </quote> Just checked and it turns out I already bought it. It's still shrinkwrapped for some reason. Also I seem to have two versions of Animal Farm and at least three versions of 1984.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 07/13/18 11:20:46 PM #23:	PK_Spam posted... Monopoman posted... Lol, the book is a classic TC. Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before. The rest of the stupidity of your post aside, Bradbury wrote "Bright Phoenix" -- a short story also based around the premise of book burning -- between 1947 and 1948. 1984 didn't come out until 1949. And, you might not have heard of this, but book burning was a pretty big fucking thing in the 1930s and 1940s >_> PK_Spam posted... And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president. And, you know, it's not like Fahrenheit 451 was a huge cultural phenomenon or anything. We certainly didn't have leftist indy filmmaker release a movie called Fahrenheit 9/11 a little over a decade ago. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:905041914] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Monopoman posted...</cite> <quote>Lol, the book is a classic TC.</quote> Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before.</quote> The rest of the stupidity of your post aside, Bradbury wrote "Bright Phoenix" -- a short story also based around the premise of book burning -- between 1947 and 1948. 1984 didn't come out until 1949. And, you might not have heard of this, but book burning was a pretty big fucking thing in the 1930s and 1940s >_> <cite>PK_Spam posted...</cite> <quote>And 451 (the movie) is continuing the trend by coming out after everyone started talking about 1984 after Trump became president.</quote> And, you know, it's not like Fahrenheit 451 was a huge cultural phenomenon or anything. We certainly didn't have leftist indy filmmaker release a movie called Fahrenheit 9/11 a little over a decade ago.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 11:23:17 PM #24:	So... I've been looking into it, a bit, and I think the first dystopian story may have been the Book of Revelation (circa 81-96 AD), at the very end of the Bible. Also, is Hitchhiker's Guide "dystopian"? It may well be one of the few comedies in the genre, and certainly seems so to me. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905042018] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>So... I've been looking into it, a bit, and I think the first dystopian story may have been the Book of Revelation (circa 81-96 AD), at the very end of the Bible. Also, is Hitchhiker's Guide "dystopian"? It may well be one of the few comedies in the genre, and certainly seems so to me.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Blighboy 07/13/18 11:53:45 PM #25:	Questionmarktarius posted... Also, is Hitchhiker's Guide "dystopian"? It may well be one of the few comedies in the genre, and certainly seems so to me. I would think no? It's not really about the society they live in. It's one more insignificant backdrop on the random and meaningless existence they live. --- https://imgur.com/ymuEJsp <cite>Blighboy posted [p:905043341] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>Also, is Hitchhiker's Guide "dystopian"? It may well be one of the few comedies in the genre, and certainly seems so to me.</quote> I would think no? It's not really about the society they live in. It's one more insignificant backdrop on the random and meaningless existence they live.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 07/13/18 11:54:19 PM #26:	Blighboy posted... Questionmarktarius posted... Also, is Hitchhiker's Guide "dystopian"? It may well be one of the few comedies in the genre, and certainly seems so to me. I would think no? It's not really about the society they live in. It's one more insignificant backdrop on the random and meaningless existence they live. so... dystopiaception? <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:905043363] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote><cite>Blighboy posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>Also, is Hitchhiker's Guide "dystopian"? It may well be one of the few comedies in the genre, and certainly seems so to me.</quote> I would think no? It's not really about the society they live in. It's one more insignificant backdrop on the random and meaningless existence they live.</quote> so... dystopiaception?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
KnoxKorner 07/14/18 12:01:44 AM #27:	Fahrenheit 451 was just a sequel to The Pedestrian. The world he live in is a watered down version of Brave New World with a light shade of 1984. Although its more so if you live in the UK. http://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/3815286.jpg http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Posterboard%20-%20TVL.jpg https://thepalimpsestcity.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rock-street.jpg --- In November of 2006 three P/C posters disappeared in the woods near Caver Ted's Caves, while LARPing...A year later their weblog was found.-PC board. <cite>KnoxKorner posted [p:905043681] in Fahrenheit... [t:76805147]...</cite> <quote>Fahrenheit 451 was just a sequel to The Pedestrian. The world he live in is a watered down version of Brave New World with a light shade of 1984. Although its more so if you live in the UK. http://www.heraldscotland.com/resources/images/3815286.jpg http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Posterboard%20-%20TVL.jpg https://thepalimpsestcity.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rock-street.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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