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‘It’s no good Montag. We’ve all got to be alike.’Thus spoke Montag’s fire captain in Francois Truffaut’s 1966 movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451, a treatment Bradbury was reported to have been generally happy with. Truffaut presents a story about a dystopian future where as a means of social control people have been heavily drug addled, deliberately dumbed down, and are functionally illiterate, where ‘reading’ as a rule consists of at most interpreting the pictures of comics, and many cannot keep a simple line of thought without forgetting what it was they were speaking about in mid-sentence. And to, as quoted below, an extreme and destructive level of ‘tolerance’ is continuously preached by Cousin Claudette to ‘the family’ (as the overall population is referred to in this society) from the large flat screen TV’s people have in their living rooms, this too being a matter of social control, and not of right and wrong as people might mistakenly presume. ‘Finally, do remember to tolerate your friends’ friends, However alien and peculiar they may seem to you. Don’t despise minorities. Sounds depressingly all too familiar, and 1966 was not that long ago. One has to wonder if the surviving actors of that film sense a touch of irony as they remember their rolls then in Truffaut’s ‘Farenheit 451’, and then look at the very Multi-Cultural world of today. I would have included this you-tube video and this one of clips from the film, which I invite you to watch, but the embedding feature was disabled. The excerpts from the fascinating dialogue of the movie are taken from this transcript. A well done movie, it was filmed in and around the London of the mid 1960’s, a product of the Pinewood Studios. I highly recommend watching it, not so much as it once was, a warning about the future, but rather now as a warning about the present. It provides a glimpse of the English, a physically handsome people, before the ravages of the Multi-cult had been fully brought against them.
Posted by Alex on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 02:05 PM in Comments:2
Posted by Matra on December 19, 2009, 01:22 PM | # I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve read the book. What stood out for me was that unlike other books on the subject of censorship and totalitarianism in Fahrenheit 451 it is not so much the government but the Balkanised dumbed down people themselves who are responsible for the situation:
Of course, in our world governments have been anything but innocent in creating these conditions. 3
Posted by jamesUK on December 19, 2009, 03:44 PM | # I hear you will be interviewing Dugin or one of his acolytes in a future Majority Rights Radio broadcast that’s great news. Actually the worst thing is that they reinterpret things to put them in context to suit there political agenda like the bible, history, economics, anthropology, etc. It shows you how weak and corrupt Western society is especially academia. 4
Posted by Desmond Jones on December 19, 2009, 05:04 PM | #
The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy Book by Lothrop Stoddard; Scribner, 1920. p.303-304 5
Posted by Guessedworker on December 19, 2009, 05:17 PM | # Lothrop-Stoddard? Oh boy ... no, I mean a work of fiction by a known author, Desmond? Lothrop and his sort of fearless scientific racism probably explains why no regular fiction-writers have let their imaginations run in the direction of the true future! Unless you can dig one up. 6
Posted by Desmond Jones on December 20, 2009, 02:10 AM | # Recently, No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy and Coetzee’s Disgrace and the movie District 9, apparently. And no, I have neither read the books nor viewed the movie. 7
Posted by fellist on January 17, 2010, 10:43 AM | # I saw the film again this weekend and would recommend it. I can’t think of a ‘mainstream’ movie made more recently that explicitly identifies the accomodation of non-euros into our societies as a problem, nor one that explicitly links that accomodation to the cultural destruction we’re suffering: Nietzsche, we’re told, had to be banned because the Jews didn’t like him, ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is banned because the ‘negroes’ didn’t like the portrayal of Man Friday. Books generally are considered a problem because they inspire ambition and imagination and so thwart the state’s desire to make us all the same. I liked the way television was identified as a tool of the hostile state, isolating and controlling its addicted viewers. The television matrix is called the ‘family’, and we hear the hero’s wife complaining that the ‘kitchen family’ needs fixing. In the early sixties few households had more than one TV, but Truffaut (or Bradbury) spotted the trend that would see people unable to function without a TV in every room. Having ‘Cousin’ the robot-like TV announcer constantly admonish the viewer to be tolerant of minorities and not be prejudiced really drives home the point that our totalitarians are liberal multiculturalists, making the film a nice antidote to ‘V for Vendetta’ (great film, but absolutely ass-backwards politically). 8
Posted by Alex on January 17, 2010, 06:44 PM | # Great comments, Guessedworker. I was not thinking so much in terms of ethnicity or race with my post, but rather I was struck by the means of social control displayed in the film…ie the dumbing down, the accepted drug use, the extreme ‘tolerance’ promoted in relation with today. I suppose to answer my own question, that probably not many of the then likely confirmed liberal actors in the film (and now likely confirmed Multi-Culturalists) sense much of an irony with what Truffaut’s film presented then and what today’s Multi-cult world is presenting today, though I suspect that here and there some are wondering what is going on. Probably something similar with the even more stark John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton version of 1984 and its cast and crew. I don’t think it’s impossible that we might some day see Truffaut’s film (and more likely) Orwell’s 1984 and its associated films banned as ‘hate’ for the associations people might make between them and Multi-Culturalism. 9
Posted by fellist on May 28, 2010, 05:54 AM | # In the film there are also the lines, talking about why books have to be burned:
The original novel, which I think generally prescient for 1953, fudged this element: “Coloured people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it.” Whites wanting books offensive to them burned? Doesn’t ring true. Truffaut, who made the film is half-Jewish I think, so his making the film and making that change is a little unexpected. Did he once express tolerance for Rassinier or holo-revisionism generally, too? 10
Posted by Daniel on January 06, 2012, 09:57 PM | # i haven’t red the novel bu,t am defiantly looking forward to it. Next entry: A question and an answer Previous entry: Atlantropa: The EU’s Solution to the Immigration Problem? |
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Posted by Guessedworker on December 19, 2009, 10:55 AM | #
I agree that the film is interesting and also touching, albeit in that naive way that visions of the future, being bounded by their present, especially emotionally, so often are. The fact that Truffaut unwittingly shows us a time-capsule interesting to us, today, because of what it tells us about our past is also rather touching.
Bradbury wrote about the totalitarian hatred of knowledge only as a ground against which he could display his own love of books. He did not , I think, write about politics. So the carry-over into the racial totalitarianism practised against Europeans today is somewhat incidental.
As far as I am aware, no writer of the post-war era accurately predicted or postulated the notion that Europeans might be genocided by their own elites via unlimited Third World replacement. I wonder how some predictively accurate fiction, couched in dramatic terms and moralising the European victim, would have been received by the critical world. Probably, since publishers are so Jewish - and where they are not Jewish, so liberal - it would never have seen the light of day.