{"id":12798,"date":"2010-06-19T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2010-06-19T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T22:02:18","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-movies-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/06\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-movies-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Movies: &#8220;1984&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/1984-movie-big-brother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12800\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/1984-movie-big-brother.jpg\" alt=\"1984-movie-big-brother\" width=\"472\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/1984-movie-big-brother.jpg 590w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/1984-movie-big-brother-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1984 film adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_movie\" target=\"_blank\"><em>1984<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I cannot embed this video, but you may watch it in very high quality and in full at Google Video <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film was actually shot in the industrial ruins of England during the same time period of the events depicted.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very powerful little movie made at a time when the Brits still made such movies.\u00a0 Note the propaganda film being shown during the opening &#8220;two minutes hate&#8221; sequence.\u00a0 The first minute of it sure looks <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2010\/06\/17\/video-of-the-day-quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">familiar<\/a>.\u00a0 Authoritarianism of the left and authoritarianism of the right end up in much the same place.<\/p>\n<p>After the jump, the 1954 BBC production of the novel, if you&#8217;d prefer something more vintage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1984 film adaptation of 1984.\u00a0 I cannot embed this video, but you may watch it in very high quality and in full at Google Video here. 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