1984 by George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty-Four / Film Movie
03. Jul, 2010 
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BBC Television’s live production of George Orwell’s “1984″. Produced in 1954. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus effectively perpetuating propaganda, who grows disillusioned with his meagre existence and so begins a rebellion against the system. The novel has become famous for its portrayal of surveillance and society’s increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual. Since its publication the terms Big Brother and Orwellian have entered the popular vernacular. Orwell, who had “encapsulated the thesis at the heart of his novel” in 1944, wrote most of Nineteen Eighty-Four on the island of Jura, Scotland, during 19471948 while critically ill with tuberculosis. He sent the final typescript to his friends Secker and Warburg on 4 December 1948 and the book was published on 8 June 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four has been translated into more than 50 languages. The novel’s title, its terms, its language (Newspeak), and its author’s surname are bywords for personal privacy lost to national state security. The adjective “Orwellian” denotes many things. It can refer to totalitarian action or organization, as well as governmental …
Amazing it’s all live. Great to see the camera smack into the table in the canteen scene.
I didn’t know they made a movie, yay!
@solidus767 Yes it does look like that freak who loved little boys. Loved them enough to kill them and bury them in his crawlspace. Goldstein in this film reminds me of Leon Trotsky and that cheap TV set in Oceania’s apartments also reminds me of the TV sets in North Korea where glorious speeches are spoken of about their God-King and dictator.
Goldstein reminds me of Leon Trotsky
This is interesting to see after reading the book. Imagine a remake of this movie now…
This is the scariest black and white movie I’ve ever seen.
The answer to 1984 is 1776!
@Nguli34689 you know…come to think of it….your right,it does look like that freak.
@ackmino the scary thing is that they don’t need anyone to disappear they will just use television and propaganda to confuse people whats really going on. Examples are using mtv, movies reality show to make people in to zombie. Using religion to blind people of fake issues instead of real down to earth stuff , etc etc etc and these days music is retarded in my opinion maybe they were always retarded expect classical because of no vocal lol in it
@earlesurfs Lemme put it to you this way: The closest I’ve seen us come to the “Two-minutes Hate” was MTV… Music-videos lasted on average about two minutes, and my parents hated them. Perhaps we should all follow the examples of Daria in the “unabridged” series episodes now out on DVD… Nothing can dominate you if you can still be sarcastic about it.
The picture of Big Brother on 1:27 looks like a spitting image of a serial killer: John Wayne Gayce.
O BG BROTHER REAL
north corea is thist
This is something I have pondered for years:
If George Orwell did not write 1984, would the atrocities being carried out aginst humanity and the erosion of our freedom and liberty still be happening today. Did the book predict the future or create it? Is the NWO using it as a guide to our future?
i always laughed at the pros because they are the most free of this weird society lol. but our future is the NWO, they put a chip in everyone and then thats its , sux! cellphone is already one chip, tracking everyone right now!
great book! ten years ago i felt we were headed this way, now i feel we are already here. they are probably reading this comment and i will vanish tonight and wake up in a fema camp staring at sarah palins leather whip
underneath the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you, and you sold me …. so moving.. it’s meant to be a child’s song.. and yet it’s symbolises such horrid situations
the person at 13 minutes says beautiful… that should be plus plus good…. if there is logic in this piece, it is slightly hypocritically muddled.
This is great movie and one of my favorite
Good to see this and know it is preserved.
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”
“Orthodoxy is unconciousness”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four”
“The only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism”
“Sanity is not statistical”
56 years later and this flim is almost reality. WOW
Do not listen lozungsa or you become zombie.
@beergutguy1010
Thank You
@aizik2005 the book was writen in 1948 – he just reversed 48 to 84….