--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > Yesterday I mentioned the BBC 1980 "Brave New World" which can be > > > found on Google (both US and UK): > > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3536993421073315692 > > > It is startling to see how close we've come to the "Brave New > > > World." > > > Think about how many store clerks these days actually behave like > > > the "Gammas" in the show. > > > > Thanks for the link! I had no idea the there was a > > movie of BNW, it's always been one of my favourite books, > > I used to try and explain to people why most of it had > > already come true, but they never got it. > > A warning. I downloaded it and started watching > it last night, and then checked out its entry on > the IMDB, where the general consensus among > reviewers was, "Arguably the worst film ever made > of a novel." They have a point. The acting and > dialogue are wooden and forced, and the profundity > of some of Huxley's concepts have been lowered to > the lowest common denominator. > > I may or may not finish it. It's of interest pri- > marily if you knew the novel and want a short > "refresher course" in its concepts. But at the > same time it's a little like preparing your > high school book report by reading a Classics > Comic Book of "War and Peace" instead of reading > the novel.
No Oscars then ;-) I had a skim through and it looked like a very literal interpretation, and somewhat overcooking the deadness of the people of the new world, or maybe that's just bad acting.
