Brazil

[grogwilton]

Great thats what I needed. Had a feeling the escape ending was a bit to disney.

 

[Idris2002]

How do you lot think it compares to the film adaptation of 1984?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Which I hated despite the perfect casting of the two main roles.

 

[Idris2002]

I saw it aged 14, with my Da - which made for some discomfort during the 'full frontal nudity' scenes.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Think yourself lucky. Some years ago I went to see Election with my mother and there was a sex scene on a kitchen floor with the woman screaming "fuck me, fuck me".

 

[Idris2002]

I wouldn't have taken my Mum to see Lost in Translation if I'd known there was a scene in a lapdancing club.

 

[Reno]

How do you lot think it compares to the film adaptation of 1984?

Someone still has to make a good film out of 1984.

 

[Tankus]

Cheers Maruis and Inbloom ....just seen the Utube ...it was the one ..heh...more memorable than the meaning of life ...... dunno why I thought it was with brazil , all a pythonish I guess ...

South sheilds /port talbot .?..dunno...just heard it in an interview , something about him being an army brat and living in Wales for a short time.

But Im usually wrong , (full of chit ..isn't it !)

Someone still has to make a good film out of 1984.

think perhaps we've passed it ...?

 

[Reno]

think perhaps we've passed it ...?

The book.

 

[Tankus]

thats what I meant ..


......cameras , everywhere

trackable radio frequency tabs

relatives getting arrested for trivial crimes which then lead to DNA results from unsolved crimes ....and hunting down of uncles.

Kids getting DNA swabbed and entered onto (criminal...? ) databases , they are so going to get nailed if they get a bit naughty twenty years hence ...!

Backtracking (to several years) of cell phone hand overs , credit card usage, and numberplate recognition cameras ...

Facial recognition software

Biometric passports with DNA info being sold on to insurance companies to see if you are genetically susceptible to certain diseases ,and thus not give you a policy ..... or exclude certain things in the small print ....

Kidnapping by western governments for a bounty and locking up without trail or even the Geneva convention being applicable .

George didnt go far enough

edit .............
Thinking about it ...the last Bourne film had elements of it .....!

Spooks in the US watching in real time and controlling events in Waterloo station

 

[Idris2002]

Someone still has to make a good film out of 1984.

I dunno, I think the Hurt/Burton movie is as good as we're likely to get.

 

[camouflage]

Its on BBC2 2 atm.

I'd forgotten the scene in his dream where he is flying around with angel wings mechanically attached to his back. How cool would it be if that worked! One can dream (like he was).

Brazil, one of my favourite films ever, first enjoyed it when I was like... thirteen or something. I don't usually hum tunes from the nineteen thirties or forties, but there you go, even the theme tune brings back the magic of the film.

 

[Reno]

I dunno, I think the Hurt/Burton movie is as good as we're likely to get.

One of those adaptations that stay true to the book in terms of story, but that just don't get the gist of it. Unlike the novel I found the film uninvolving and dull. The characters seem so dehumanised from the start that there is no humanity to loose. There seems nothing at stake.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There's also the weird thing whereby "brohter" and "sister" are used instead of "comrade".