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Watch: Fahrenheit 451 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman – and begins to rebel against society..
Plot: In an oppressive future, a ‘fireman’ whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
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Timely for sure, and check that cast, but 2018’s _Fahrenheit 451_ is a TV movie and it plays like one.

_Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

**_An extraordinarily lazy adaptation_**

> _With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally ‘bright,’ did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn’t it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was__. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?_

– Ray Bradbury; _Fahrenheit 451_ (1954)

I don’t do remakes. They’re a cancer of the industry. Where I am more flexible, however, is in adaptations of novels that have already been adapted. After all, my all-time favourite film falls into this category (Terrence Malick’s _The Thin Red Line_ (1998) was the second adaptation of James Jones’s novel). _Fahrenheit 451_ is also a second adaptation; in this case, of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel, and, for all intents and purposes, it’s a misfire. Bradbury himself has said the novel is not about censorship, as is often assumed, but was written in response to the Second Red Scare and the rise of McCarthyism. More specifically, it’s a treatise on the dangers of an illiterate society unquestionably accepting the word of a monopolising centralised mass media.

Adapted for the screen and directed by Ramin Bahrani (_99 Homes_), the film is set at an unspecified point in the future, after a second civil war has been fought. All aspects of society are rigidly controlled by the Ministey, an authoritarian government that believes unhappiness, mental illness, and difference of opinion come from unregulated reading. As such, all books have been banned, although simplified and edited Ministry-approved editions of texts such as the Bible, Herman Melville’s _Moby Dick, or, the Whale_ (1851) and Virginia Woolf’s _To the Lighthouse_ (1927) are available on the internet (known as “the 9”). Special units of “firemen” are tasked with locating and burning any remaining books, and estimates suggest that within 20-30 years, books will have become completely extinct. The film follows two such firemen; Cpt. John Beatty (Michael Shannon), the veteran and somewhat disillusioned mentor of Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan), an idealistic rookie who believes unquestioningly in the firemen’s work. That is until he meets Clarisse McClellan (Sofia Boutella), who educates him as to the real history of the US, the rise of the Ministry, and why they want literature destroyed.

Now, you’d think that in this age of Trump’s fake news and people using Facebook as a news source, something with this subject matter would speak volumes to a contemporary audience. And you’d be right. Unfortunately, this film isn’t about sheeple and mass media. Apparently unaware of Bradbury’s statements, the filmmakers have focused almost exclusively on censorship. But it falls down in other areas as well. Mildred Montag is absent, hence the theme of addiction to television broadcasting which tells people how and what to think. Additionally, the infrequent and scattered allusions to the importance of literary texts serve to undermine the absolutely essential nature of what the rebels are doing by memorising whole texts. This should be the film’s absolutely central statement, but instead, it comes across as a bunch of weirdos being quirky. Jordan plays Montag as a bombastic loudmouth TV personality. Shannon is, well, Shannon. Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy. He’s an actor of immense talent. But here, he’s playing an identical character to the one he played in Guillermo del Toro’s _The Shape of Water_ (2017). It’s an extraordinarily lazy performance. In fact, everything about the film is lazy. Bahrani’s direction is flat and uninspired; the whole thing looks like _Blade Runner_-lite. It’s all very conventional and safe, which neither the novel nor François Truffaut’s 1966 adaptation was. And this conventionality and safety grind against the inherently rebellious subject matter, rendering it less urgent, and hence, less potent.

I knew 5 minutes in…
This was going to be bad…. The line ” you dream of running from me, you wake up and apologize” (Or something like that) made me think that I didn’t know if I could make it through this movie. Which is a shame because I really like both lead actors. Maybe the director just didn’t direct them correctly but Ray Bradbury must be turning in his grave at this retelling. I’ve seen the movie Equilibrium which is loosely based on the book, and while it’s no masterpiece it is boatloads better than this

Lobotomized
Ray Bradbury wrote some novels and tons of short stories. Why remake one of his most famous pieces with low budget and well, compared with the innovative movie from 1966 (François Truffaut!), this version is a total predictable, movie of zeitgeist – conventional adds/changes and the use of CGI for the purpose of a make-up for a bad script and hasty and careless production.

We got a version of Fahrenheit 451 made by a titan like François Truffaut and now someone decided to make a smalltown movie for whatever reasons. Well, of course censorship is an issue of zeitgeist and the story of Fahrenheit 451 fits into that current (no matter if this is the real topic of the original story).

Verdict: read or reread a book from Bradbury or watch Truffaut’s flick from 1966 – your time is much better spent – with Ramin Bahrani’s Fahrenheit 451 you get a movie with no subtlety (like in Truffaut’s vision) and no gray-zone at all. In this sense this version of Fahrenheit 451 is a very contemporary movie – just think of Guillermo del Toro’s last fish epic – everything is just described or “painted” in black or white. All in all: redundant and disappointing.

p.s. Someone genius must have written a self-help book for Hollywood’s directors/writers with a title like “10 Steps of How to Convert a Fine Novel into Pulp Fiction”.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-14
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director Ramin Bahrani
Writer Ray Bradbury, Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi
Actors Michael B. Jordan, Aaron Davis, Cindy Katz
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys. 3 wins & 15 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera Panasonic VariCam 35, Panavision Primo, PCZ, Super Speed MKII, Ultra Speed MKII and Lensbaby Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format P2
Cinematographic Process AVC-Intra (4K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema, Video (HDTV)