Most of the nominations-totals for 1984's Best Picture nominees were very close, and two 'prestige' pictures were tied., Milos Forman-directed film. The musical. Movie Review & Film Summary (1. George Orwell made no secret of the fact that his novel 1. Best of 2015; YouTube Originals. Year: 1984. Most Popular Feature Films Released In 1984 1. Buy Movie and TV Show DVDs. DPReview Digital.
1984 Academy Awards Nominees and Box Office Breakdown. BEST PICTURE. YR Rank: Nominated Movie: Studio: Pre-Nom. (up to 2/12) Gross / Theaters* Post-Nom.World War II when England shivered in poverty and hunger. In a novel where passion is depicted as a crime, the greatest passion is expressed, not for sex, but for contraband strawberry jam, coffee, and chocolate. What Orwell feared, when he wrote his novel in 1. Hitlerism, Stalinism, centralism, and conformity would catch hold and turn the world into a totalitarian prison camp. It is hard, looking around the globe, to say that he was altogether wrong. Michael Radford's brilliant film of Orwell's vision does a good job of finding that line between the "future" world of 1. Orwell wrote. The movie's 1. There is not a single prop in this movie that you couldn't buy in a junkyard, and yet the visual result is uncanny: Orwell's hero, Winston Smith, lives in a world of grim and crushing inhumanity, of bombed factories, bug- infested bedrooms, and citizens desperate for the most simple pleasures. The film opens with Smith rewriting history: His task is to change obsolete government documents so that they reflect current reality. ![]() He methodically scratches out old headlines, obliterates the photographs of newly made "unpersons," and attends mass rallies at which the worship of Big Brother alternates with numbing reports of the endless world war that is still going on somewhere, involving somebody. Into Smith's world comes a girl, Julia, who slips him a note of stunning force. The note says, "I love you." Smith and Julia become revolutionaries by making love, walking in the countryside, and eating strawberry jam. Then Smith is summoned to the office of O'Brien, a high official of the "inner party," who seems to be a revolutionary too, and gives him the banned writings of an enemy of the state. This story is, of course, well known. What is remarkable about the movie is how completely it satisfied my feelings about the book; the movie looks, feels, and almost tastes and smells like Orwell's bleak and angry vision. John Hurt, with his scrawny body and lined and weary face, makes the perfect Winston Smith; and Richard Burton, looking so old and weary in this film that it is little wonder he died soon after finishing it, is the immensely cynical O'Brien, who feels close to people only while he is torturing them. Suzanna Hamilton is Julia, a fierce little war orphan whose rebellion is basically inspired by her hungers. Radford's style in the movie is an interesting experiment. Like Chaplin in "Modern Times," he uses passages of dialogue that are not meant to be understood - - nonsense words and phrases, garbled as they are transmitted over Big Brother's primitive TV, and yet listened to no more or less urgently than the messages that say something. The 1. 95. 4 film version of Orwell's novel turned it into a cautionary, simplistic science- fiction tale. This version penetrates much more deeply into the novel's heart of darkness.
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