1/6/2023 0 Comments 1984 john hurt at his jobGilliam's film, by contrast, launches a broad-based assault on contemporary consumer society. Orwell's work marks a declaration of independence from the hopes and struggles of the left in the 1930s - part of a surge to the right on the part of many progressive intellectuals at the outset of the Cold War. ![]() Yet that despair and cynicism have sharply differing targets. In their own ways, each derive from deep-rooted cynicism and despair. Nor was it a given that Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL would appear as well - a deliberate reworking of Orwell's dystopian vision, corresponding to a very different set of fears and nightmares.īoth Michael Radford's film of 1984 and BRAZIL correspond in a broad sense to a loss of faith on the part of sectors of the intelligentsia of their respective eras. Far less predictable was the form such a film would take, the particular reading of Orwell's novel and its central themes. It was surely inevitable that in 1984, a year saturated with media references to "Big Brother" and "double-think," Orwell's work itself would be brought to the screen for the second time. ![]() ![]() ![]() "1984" and "Brazil" by John Hutton JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1987, 2006
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