[Have you read any good books that you think would make a great movie???]
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Also, I want to see a decent film rendition of 1984 from the conservative's perspective.
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You want to make a film version of 1984 that casts the government depicted as the protagonist...?
I'm sorry to inform you that doing so will require you to rewrite 99% of the entire book, thus I guess you don't think 1984 would make a good movie.
I mean come on, that's like making a version of Watership Down that makes the farmers the heroes.
Wait. What?
He wants it from the perspective of the tought police or what?
Funny how what was once seen as a criticism of a extreme russian style communist regime (or was that Animal Farm? Or both? Animal Farm was a satire that DID focus the russian "communist" regime, though, I am still undecided on how I should read 1984, except for "scary" and "eerily prescient"), works perfectly now for conservative regimes, limiting freedoms and defrauding the people it should protect.
Or something. Still, I believe that this guy is nuts.
...And it should have Sylvester Stallone, car chases, lots of explosions, chicks in hot pants and a cameo from The Governator.
Both 1984 and Animal Farm were anti-Soviet works. Animal Farm focused on the Russian Revolution, while 1984 was more about the modern Soviet state.
Orwell wasn't really an anti-Marxist, he was just one of those who clearly saw through the Soviet's claims of communisim to the facist totalitarianism reality behind it.
The fact remains that no depiction of Orwell's 1984 could ever be flattering to the State, which I think is Bluemoon_Rising's wish.
I think he wishes it could be, but there's no way in Hell to do it and stay true to the book.
They did something like that already: V for Vendetta (At least the original graphic novel version) had a fairly heavy focus on the conservative regime. In fact, outside of the main plot of V and Eve, the focus was almost entirely on Norsefire.
Isn't 1984 already from the conservative perspective? I mean, right to privacy, minimal government... Obviously this isn't what we call "conservative" now, but Republican DNE Conservative and Democratic DNE Liberal
@Bluemoon_Rising
Also, I want to see a decent film rendition of 1984 from the conservative's perspective.
*The film opens. A man with a scraggly beard stands on a stree corner, shouting about the End Times. A unfiormed individual walks up to him and escorts the man away.
FIN*
Also, I want to see a decent film rendition of 1984 from the conservative's perspective.
You missed the entire fucking point of the book, didn't you?
Well, it is a criticism of the soviet regime, which was considered the epitome of leftism or some shit, go go communism etc.
Unfortunately for them freecers, it is THE RIGHT who is actualyl denying freedoms and whatnot. Etc.
Reminds me of that scene in a Clockwork Orange where Alex , reading the Bible in prison, finds it satisfies his fondness of ultraviolence, and fantasises about being a Roman soldier torturing Jesus.
Um.
Don't vote, please.
No, no, not just running for office.
Please, Bluemoon, DON'T make your opinion heard.
I'm confused. What is fundamentalist about this? Do we know that this person thinks that Oceania is a conservative state? Even if he does, I doubt he'd be saying that if he was conservative himself.
I would say that Equilibrium had already done what he wanted, since it shows a person who is fully convinced of the system as the protagonist. They do, however, decide to bring down the system eventually.
So yeah, not really a fundamentalist comment at all, is it?
Well, first of all, that would most likely be a boring film, because it would show everyone getting along for the good of the state.
Or it would show someone standing up for silly-ass things like freedom of speech and privacy getting his ass stomped by the all-encompassing state.
Actually, now that I think about it, this guy would have loved the film, "Brazil".
but Brazil makes fun of the concept of the War on Terrorism! Ultimately useless, and heavily damaging to innocent individuals.
Ending is incredibly awesome, though, in the Director's cut, of course.
One of Brazil's original names was "1984 1/2" or something similar, by the way.
Also, I want to see a decent film rendition of 1984 from the conservative's perspective.
Another great idea would be a remake of Star Wars entirely from a Stormtrooper's view. Or maybe the story of the guy who steals Indiana Jones' treasure at the beginning of the Lost Ark. Ooh, how about Dawn of the Dead from a zombie's point of view?
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
For this person, these ideas seem like a good idea. But that shouldn't surprise us. Just another Party member performing their role before being shuffled off to Room 101.
"...And it should have Sylvester Stallone, car chases, lots of explosions, chicks in hot pants and a cameo from The Governator."
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Hey, that's actually a good idea! I might want to make a movie like that! I've always toyed with the idea of writing something from the antagonist's perspective, although I'd prefer to do it for a story where the protagonist can be easily vilified by the reader; the "unreliable narrator" writing style is compounded by an "unreliable audience," which draws the reader in and makes him/her a part of the process.
So you want to show a totalitarian system that brainwashes an innocent man for the heinous crime of falling in love without first filing the proper paperwork in triplicate to such a degree that he enthusiastically agrees to his own execution as the good guy?
My, what a marvelous human being you must be. Let's be friends!
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