Fahrenheit 451 is movie created after the dystopian novel with the same name of Ray Bradbury, which was published in 1953.
The movie presents a future American society where books are forbidden and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title and a line from the movie explains everything: "Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns." The main character is a fireman named Montag who becomes uneasy with the role of censoring works and destroying knowledge. He eventually quits his job and joins a resistance group who memorize books in order to preserve the world's greatest literary and cultural works. This rebel group encoded books into a bird's DNA. The movie's end is dramatic. The rebels hideout is discovered and Montag confronts Captain Beatty, the infamous leader of the "firemen". Montag releases the bird from a cage but pays the ultimate price for that and dies.
Fahrenheit 451 is a classic of Sci-Fi genre. The book won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.
The film was nominated for a Hugo Award and for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.
The movie presents a future American society where books are forbidden and "firemen" burn any that are found. The title and a line from the movie explains everything: "Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns." The main character is a fireman named Montag who becomes uneasy with the role of censoring works and destroying knowledge. He eventually quits his job and joins a resistance group who memorize books in order to preserve the world's greatest literary and cultural works. This rebel group encoded books into a bird's DNA. The movie's end is dramatic. The rebels hideout is discovered and Montag confronts Captain Beatty, the infamous leader of the "firemen". Montag releases the bird from a cage but pays the ultimate price for that and dies.
Fahrenheit 451 is a classic of Sci-Fi genre. The book won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.
The film was nominated for a Hugo Award and for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.
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