It’s much more worthy of your time than my complaints). (Those of you who have never read it should stop looking at this review and check out the book at your local library. But before I begin my review let me give an overview to those of you who haven’t read Fahrenheit 451 in a long time.

Several people present at Ray Bradbury’s lecture expressed to me a great love the novel and the movie.

(No, not just because they have the same name). Unless Guy Pierce is cast as Guy Montag, just as I’ve always imagined. I don’t know what will be worse, Mel Gibson acting in or directing Fahrenheit 451, but if Ray approves, I guess I can’t complain too much. And while there are many things to be said about that, what is relevant here is that he stated that he likes the film, though it didn’t get everything “quite right.” He even told us of developments of a new screenplay with Mel Gibson, which hasn’t even been announced on IMDB yet.

It appreciates all art forms as long as they are Saying Something, “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books… take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends look for it in nature and look for it in yourself.” I re-read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time since I was fourteen and realized that it isn’t pro-literature in a way that makes it also anti-film.This past week, however, all of three of these arguments were foiled by one thing or another.

I generally steer clear of adaptations of novels I’ve long loved and the movie just didn’t interest me.I thought it went against the core values of the book itself.I never wanted to see the film Fahrenheit 451.

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