I haven't read the book in a while so I will try to make my best of it. Sorry If I make mistakes.
This is possibly the most unfaithful adaptation of a book ever. The director does not get the point of the Dystopian world and it really begs the question why the film was made.
For those who don't know this classic plot, books are illegal in this world. Guy Montag who is a firefighter who burns books gets curious and starts to read books which makes everything go wrong and in the end war breaks out and Guy and other outcasts try to rebuild society. Or so what I remember.
The movie is totally different. I'm not going just say I didn't like this because they changed this without giving reason, I am going to give you reasons on why I didn't like the changes.
The book was set in the future and it was clear that it was a dystopia. The present is used in this version which makes it look way too modern for an adaptation of a book set in the future.
Oscar Werner's Guy Montag is nothing more than just wrong. Tons of things he says and does are excluded from this adaptation such as bursting out in front of his wife's friends after reading a excerpt from a book. The reason this was important was to show that guy was becoming erratic to others around him. When he reads in this version, he just stands there being scolded like a child without doing anything.
Oh and the outbreak of war and destruction at the end? Not shown. They just don't show it. Why not?! This is a powerful image in the whole book and it ends with a bang! I don't care if they used stock footage of atom bombs, it would be perfect!
They only got very few things right like The woman burning herself with all the books in front of her which makes for a very memorable image. But overall this is just a mess.
This is director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) first English film and I severely doubt he had even read the novel and just heard a basic synopsis without the details.
Just please read the book. Don't support this film it is a huge mess.
36/100 D+
This is possibly the most unfaithful adaptation of a book ever. The director does not get the point of the Dystopian world and it really begs the question why the film was made.
For those who don't know this classic plot, books are illegal in this world. Guy Montag who is a firefighter who burns books gets curious and starts to read books which makes everything go wrong and in the end war breaks out and Guy and other outcasts try to rebuild society. Or so what I remember.
The movie is totally different. I'm not going just say I didn't like this because they changed this without giving reason, I am going to give you reasons on why I didn't like the changes.
The book was set in the future and it was clear that it was a dystopia. The present is used in this version which makes it look way too modern for an adaptation of a book set in the future.
Oscar Werner's Guy Montag is nothing more than just wrong. Tons of things he says and does are excluded from this adaptation such as bursting out in front of his wife's friends after reading a excerpt from a book. The reason this was important was to show that guy was becoming erratic to others around him. When he reads in this version, he just stands there being scolded like a child without doing anything.
Oh and the outbreak of war and destruction at the end? Not shown. They just don't show it. Why not?! This is a powerful image in the whole book and it ends with a bang! I don't care if they used stock footage of atom bombs, it would be perfect!
They only got very few things right like The woman burning herself with all the books in front of her which makes for a very memorable image. But overall this is just a mess.
This is director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) first English film and I severely doubt he had even read the novel and just heard a basic synopsis without the details.
Just please read the book. Don't support this film it is a huge mess.
36/100 D+