Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Category: 16
All Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1984
Country: UK
Runtime: 113
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Michael Radford
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

George Orwell's Terrifying Vision Comes To The Screen.

Big Brother is Watching...

The year of the movie. The movie of the year.

Writing by: George Orwell - (novel 1984)
Michael Radford - (written by)

Produced by: Al Clark - co-producer
John Davis - associate producer
Robert Devereux - co-producer
Simon Perry - producer
Gina Rosenblum - executive producer
Marvin J. Rosenblum - executive producer

Cast: John Hurt - Winston Smith
Richard Burton - O'Brien
Suzanna Hamilton - Julia
Cyril Cusack - Charrington
Gregor Fisher - Parsons
James Walker - Syme
Andrew Wilde - Tillotson
David Trevena - Tillotson's Friend
David Cann - Martin
Anthony Benson - Jones
Peter Frye - Rutherford

Music: Dominic Muldowney
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Plot Outline: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Plot: After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...

Movie Quotes: O'Brien: If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

Crazy Credits: We know about 4 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The end credits include the note that the entire movie was filmed on the days noted in Winston Smith's diary.

Goofs: We know about 35 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Nancy checks her watch she is wearing a short-sleeved nightgown, but the closeup shows a wrist with the end of a long blue sleeve on it.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Alexandra Palace, London, was built in 1873 as a "pleasure palace of the people" and named after the then-Princess of Wales. It was destroyed by fire a fortnight after opening. The present building was built in 1875 and lasted a bit longer. It was gutted by fire in 1980 and the roofless shell provided the structure for the rallies in Victory Square.
Scenes were shot on the actual days noted in Winston Smith's diary (The scene where Smith writes in his diary, dating the entry April 4, 1984, was shot on April 4, 1984).
In the final scene when Winston is playing chess in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, he picks up a white piece from the board and contemplates a move. The arrangement of the pieces on the chess board suggests that he is considering a tactic of going around and hitting the opposing black army from behind. Only minutes later, the telescreen announcer reports that the Oceanian forces had just defeated the Eurasian enemy in Africa by using the same tactic.