Politics, Culture, and Other Wastes of Time

Saturday, May 24, 2008
12:24:00 PM EDT
Hearing Cold War Kids
This is the third installment of my series devoted  to the first and last sentence of  great novels.  Today,  I  downsize  George  Orwell's 1948 novel "1984," which was made into a film in.........you guessed it 1984. It was the last feature for the great Richard Burton. The film also featured a soundtrack from The Eurythmics.

Here is the first sentence of "1984:"

"It was a cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13."

Now, the last two sentences, which are a bit gloomy:

"He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

And, lastly, for those who are better at reading films (hmm, who might that be!), here is the U.K. trailer for "1984" .................



Michael Radford, the director of "1984," has a new film called "Flawless" starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, who were also co-stars of "Blame it on Rio," which came out in 1985. It is currently playing at the Grandin Theatre in Roanoke and movie theaters around the country, if not the world.

The novel also recently inspired an anti-Hillary Clinton ad from a Barack Obama supporter which was shown all over the Internet. And, you may  have seen those clever (and, highly accurate) Bush/Orwell bumper stickers on cars.

USEFUL LINKS:

http://www.george_orwell.org

http://theskysatnight.blogspot.com (an amusing liberal Orwell-themed blog)




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