Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British Dystopian science fiction drama film directed by Franois Truffaut and starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, and Cyril Cusack. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which a fireman, whose duty it is to burn all literature, becomes a fugitive for reading. This was Truffauts first colour film as well as his only Englishlanguage film. At the 1966 Venice Film Festival, Fahrenheit 451 was nominated for the Golden Lion.

At the house of a book collector, the captain Cyril Cusack talks with Montag at length about how books change people and make them want to be better than others, which is considered antisocial. The book collector, a middleaged woman who was seen with Clarisse a few times during Montags rides to and from work, refuses to leave her house, opting instead to burn herself and the house so she can die with her books. Returning home that day, Montag tries to tell Linda and her friends about the woman who martyred herself in the name of books and confronts them about knowing nothing about whats going on in the world, calling them zombies and telling them theyre just killing time instead of living life. Disturbed over Montags behavior, Lindas friends try to leave but Montag stops them, by forcing them to sit and listen to a novel passage. During the reading, one of Lindas friends breaks down crying, aware of the feelings she repressed over the years, while Lindas other friends leave in disgust over Montags alleged cruelty and the sick content of the novel. That night, Montag dreams of Clarisse as the book collector who killed herself. The same night, Clarisses house is raided but she escapes through a trapdoor in the roof, thanks to her uncle. Montag breaks into the captains office looking for information about the missing Clarisse and is caught but not punished.Montag meets with Clarisse and helps her break back into her house, to destroy papers that would bring the Firemen to others like her. She tells him of the book people, a hidden sect of people who flout the law, each of whom have memorized a book to keep it alive. Later, Montag tells the captain he is resigning but is convinced to go on one more call, which turns out to be Montags house. Linda leaves the house, telling Montag that she couldnt live with his book obsession and leaves him to be punished by the Firemen. Angrily, he destroys the bedroom and television before setting fire to the books. The captain lecture

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