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When people discuss 1984, they tend to talk about Orwell's achievement of the former – his fully realised portrayal of life under a brutal one-party dictatorship – but when people read the book, as I did as a young teenager, what holds them is the fate of its protagonist, Winston Smith, his lover Julia, and their doomed attempt to taste freedom. It does what every novel in the genre should do – combining the illumination of an intriguing idea and the telling of a cracking story. Not just a political thriller, but an exemplar: the very model of the form. All the acting in this version are great. For some reason, George Orwells 1984 is a current best-seller on Amazon. Some people called it 'putrid' which is more or less what I thought of the version that came out in 1984 starring John Hurt: 1984 A BAD MOVIE. It doesn't sound like it was very well received by the public, even though alot of effort was put into the production.
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George Orwells dystopian vision seems more prescient with every passing day. Overview of BBC film: 1984 - Part - Part 2. Richard Burton was really the only shining star in the 1984 version and he was completely underused. Review: 1984 John Hurt turns in excellent performance in film version of Orwells dystopian classic. Richard Burton was really the only shining star in the 1984 version and he was completely underused. But everything else that was a mostly boring film. Hurt was fine in toward the end with the torture scene. But everything else that was a mostly boring film. Edmond OBrien was a much better actor than John Hurt. It has become a shorthand for totalitarianism, for the surveillance state, for the power of the mass media to manipulate public opinion, history and even the truth – and, in the process, has allowed people to forget that it remains a story to be read.Įven those who manage to look beyond its place in the folk memory, and do it the honour of assessing it as a novel, rarely see it for what it is – which is a political thriller. Edmond O'Brien was a much better actor than John Hurt. The Hit is a 1984 British road crime film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Laura del Sol and Tim Roth.The film was Stamp's first starring role in over a decade and Roth won an Evening Standard award as an apprentice hit man. From Big Brother to Doublethink, the landscape of the dystopia George Orwell created in 1949 exists in the minds even of those who've never picked up the novel. So much of it has entered the language, becoming a settled part of our common cultural inheritance, that it's easy to forget that 1984 was ever a book at all.