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...this reason, the film has a fast paced punch that the book lacked. Winston runs--not slogs--from low-level Party member to fledgling revolutionary to haggard forture victim. The scenery, too, especially the crowd shots of Hate Week and mass gatherings at the execution of war criminals, helps fuel the romantic pace of the film and sweeps the viewer along with Winston...
...Weinberger has lionized Winston Churchill all his adult life. He has collected and read his published works many times over, and he frequently quotes the wartime British Prime Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of some note. Two years after Weinberger became Defense Secretary, he chose to schedule a speech at Westminster College, the tiny Missouri school where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" address in 1946. Though he employs a speechwriting staff of four, Weinberger insisted on writing much of the speech himself, including...
Military campaigns would have ended differently. George Washington, surveying his ragged forces at Valley Forge, would have surrendered. So would Winston Churchill in the early days of 1941. The march of industrial technology would have zigzagged. Thomas Alva Edison, after spending $40,000 to test umpteen hundred possible filaments for an electric light, would have shrugged and said, "I give up. Nobody will ever figure this...
John Hurt, for example, plays Winston as if he were suffering the last stages of consumption; repellent in his grayness and enervation, Hurt is oddly compelling too. As Julia, Suzanna Hamilton plays her harshly lighted love scenes with a nakedness, both physical and emotional, that is astonishing in its neediness. By making the romance more explicit, Radford gives it a pathos and a symbolic weight that are, if anything, more affecting than in the novel. Finally, the late Richard Burton as O'Brien, the couple's betrayer and interrogator, gives a last performance that is all silky corruption, perfumed malice...
...propaganda in black and white, never color, and their shape is that of antique sets. At the Ministry of Truth, no one has ever heard of the microchip. The height of sophisticated communication is represented by the pneumatic tube and the dial phone. And when O'Brien tortures Winston into submissiveness to the state, his instruments are the old-fashioned table with leather straps and electroshock. All of this matches perfectly the external world through which Winston and Julia stumble: it looks like a vast, bombed- out housing development. Cameron thus carefully upsets our common visual assumptions about things...