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Nineteen Eighty-Four (stylized as 1984) is a 1984 dystopian film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel.Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith (Hurt), a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. [6]
The first feature film adaptation, 1984, was released in 1956. A second feature-length adaptation, Nineteen Eighty-Four , followed in 1984, a reasonably faithful adaptation of the novel. The story has been adapted several other times to radio, television, and film; other media adaptations include theater (a musical [ 114 ] and a play ), opera ...
O'Brien was partly inspired by the character of Gletkin from Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon. [1] The two characters share many common traits, including their ruthlessness and fanaticism to the government: O'Brien however is more sadistic than the cold, detached Gletkin, and prefers to use torture himself, whereas Gletkin prefers to torment his prisoners psychologically.
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Class of 1984 is a 1982 crime thriller film directed by Mark Lester and co-written by Tom Holland and John Saxton, based on a story by Holland. The film stars Perry King , Merrie Lynn Ross (who also served as co-executive producer), Timothy Van Patten , Lisa Langlois , Stefan Arngrim , Michael J. Fox , and Roddy McDowall .
1984, incomplete unofficial webcomic by Canadian artist Frédéric Guimont (2007) [33] 1984 was one of classics adapted as a manga by East Press' Manga de Dokuha series. [34] The adaptation was released in January 2012 in Japan, with a Spanish translation also released later. [35] 1984, adaptation and illustrated by Fido Nesti. [36] [37] [38]
1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future of a dystopian [3] society. The film followed a previous Westinghouse Studio One adaptation and a BBC-TV made-for-TV adaptation .
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