NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
   Film (1984). Umbrella-Rosenblum/Virgin Cinema Films. Dir Michael Radford, starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. Screenplay Radford, Jonathan Gems, based on NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949) byGeorge ORWELL. 110 mins. Colour.
   This second film version (1984 for the first) is better acted and more intelligent than its predecessor, but still stresses the romantic interest, substituting an orthodoxly liberal lovers-against-the-system sadness for Orwell's sheer savagery and irony. It was eight weeks into shooting before Burton was cast as the treacherousO'Brien, Smith's torturer, and he seems a little cut off from the rest of the film.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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