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In this case, young Edward (Gordon-Levitt replicating the real Snowden’s affectless, robotic voice), distinguishes himself as the star pupil of Corbin O’Brian (Rhys Ifans, shadowy and sinister), a composite CIA figure who shares a similar surname with O’Brien, the Thought Policeman of George Orwell’s “1984.”
And thanks to cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle who gives the proceedings a competent, but overtly obvious visual nod to 1984.
And a great, if slightly over-the-top scene in which - in a direct nod to "1984" - an interrogating O'Brien appears on a huge video screen.
Snowden is an immediate success at his work, receiving encouragement from both company man O’Brian (whose surname recalls the sinister “O’Brien” in George Orwell’s 1984) and the eccentric Hank Forrester (played hammily by Nicholas Cage; the character may be based on William Binney), who has a thing for old code machines and apparently no duties other than dusting them.
That name is probably a wink in the direction of Orwell's 1984, where the main antagonist was O'Brien.
Já mais tarde, quando Snowden conversa com seu mentor, que questiona suas atitudes, Stone retrata o superior (Ifans) como uma presença gigantesca em uma tela que domina a sala, evocando a imagem icônica do Big Brother de 1984 (e tampouco é coincidência que este personagem – fictício – se chame O’Brien, completando a referência ao remeter ao agente da Polícia do Pensamento do livro de Orwell).
The Zero Theorem (2013)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
influenced by Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Themes Visuals
With its echoes of "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451," the screenplay by Pat Rushin, a writer and English professor at the University of Central Florida, hits many of the same dystopian notes as Gilliam's "Brazil."
Screenwriter Richard Pushin was reportedly inspired by the book of Ecclesiastes, but the plot seems equally influenced by "Waiting for Godot," "1984" and the collected works of Franz Kafka (the latter two sources shaped Gilliam's " Brazil " as well).
There are satirical digs at consumption and globalisation, but the aesthetic is techno-whirligig junk shop – indoors and outdoors – with a touch of 1984 and a hint of funfair.
Escrito pelo estreante Pat Rushin, o roteiro se passa num futuro não especificado que, embora tomado por cores intensas e personagens que exibem vitalidade, não é muito diferente das distopias vistas em Os 12 Macacos, THX 1138 e 1984 .
In a none-too-subtle shoutout to “1984,” signs warn that Management is watching everywhere, incarnated in the figure of a character actually called Management (Matt Damon, sporting, like everyone else in the movie, a ridiculous hairpiece).
The offices for Mancom Corp. resemble a gaudy, smaller, steampunk version of the bureaucratic maze that Gilliam created for “Brazil,” via Michael Radford’s film version of “1984.”
What with all the ludicrous maxims (“Breath is a just a clock ticking”), “Justice League” infrastructure names (sense offenders are taken to the Hall of Justice before being burned in the Hall of Destruction) and buzz terms (“processing” and “execution”) Wimmer freely throws around, Equlibrium could pass for a 13-year-old’s book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and Farenheit 451.
For starters, the film retreads similar, over-reactionary themes found in other sci-fi works such as "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451."
Borrowing enough from the dystopian science-fiction visions of "1984," "Brave New World" and "Fahrenheit 451" to remind us how thought-provoking the genre can be in the hands of the masters, writer-director Kurt Wimmer's painfully unoriginal "Equilibrium" isn't likely to have the Big Brothers of the world shaking in their boots.
Havenâ??t these guys read Animal Farm, 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, and isnâ??t the point that the powers that be in Libria have rejected their ideas and now set out to crush them?
A student so inclined could have a fine, obsessive time linking images and action sequences to all the influences (including ''1984,'' ''Fahrenheit 451,'' and ''Brave New World'') that have been scooped up wholesale by writer-director Kurt Wimmer, stirred in an often violent frenzy, and microwaved for serving.
Writer/director Kurt Wimmer’s “Equilibrium” is a b-movie update of “Fahrenheit 451” and “1984,” with a hint of “The Matrix” thrown in for good measure.
While Fred is happy to read the obituaries, claiming he likes to catch up on his friends, top of Elsa’s bucket list is to dance in the same fountain in Rome as Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita.
But the film smothers the pair with cutesy touches (Elsa is obsessed with Fellini’s La Dolce Vita , especially the iconic scene in which Anita Ekberg frolics in the Trevi Fountain), many of which are lifted directly from the original but register as even cringier in this Anglo version.
When first we see her, she’s in bed watching La Dolce Vita and daydreaming she’s in a world created by Federico Fellini.
The most contrived plot element centers around Elsa's obsession with Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
Michael Radford's romantic comedy Elsa & Fred is a remake of Marcos Carnevale's Spanish-language film of the same name, and it also retains the original's obsession with La Dolce Vita.
Elsa never stops moving or talking, most often about her favorite fantasy, a famous scene in Frederico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita.”
"The Lobster" is reminiscent of other dystopian novels and films such as "1984" and "A Clockwork Orange."
It’s all too droll and tinged with loveless sadism to go down easily, a “1984” for a loveless, disconnected but Facebook “connected” age.It hurts.
Recommended If You Like: 1984, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Under the Skin.
The theme of the individual versus the collective was ably explored in films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Matrix , rather brilliantly explored in last year's The World's End , and rather bluntly laid out in things like 1984, Elysium , Upside Down , and The Hunger Games .
For instance, the conversation about futuristic dystopias and/or social upheaval no longer includes 1984 , Brave New World , or Fahrenheit 451 .
If I mention the fingerprints of George Orwell’s 1984 this review may explode.
Director Gary Ross does a tight job of establishing the future-meets-1984 vibe in Panem: the slog of daily life, the hopelessness that dulls the citizens, the fear that returns each year at the Hunger Games lottery known as the Reaping.
It’s kind of a light, pre-teen version of “The Running Man” mixed with elements of “1984.”
“Truman Show’’ and “Wizard of Oz’’ are joined by “Logan’s Run,’’ “The Running Man,’’ “The Most Dangerous Game,’’ “The 10th Victim,’’ “1984,’’ “Big Brother,’’ “Red Dawn,’’ and countless other influences, and there’s an angry online contingent of “Battle Royale’’ fans that want their 2000 drive-in Japanese classic left in peace.
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
Directed by Olivia Wilde
influenced by Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Themes
Numerous references to other films litter the second half of the movie, especially The Stepford Wives, 1984 and even Suspiria and Thelma And Louise, but with its 1950s paranoia, it’s most reminiscent of The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
A phantasmagoria with shades of Anthony Burgess’ Clockwork Orange and George Orwell’s 1984 thrown in for good measure.
In other words, it’s a satire like that combines the contradictions of communism in “Animal Farm” with a caustic look at a modern “1984.”
They move ahead purposefully while he wanders -- physically through desolate back streets that recall Orwell's bleak "1984" and mentally through a labyrinth of unsettling, half-digested memories.
This first feature written and directed by Gary Ross (who co-wrote "Big") starts out as a satirical fantasy about a teenage brother and sister (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) projected into a black-and-white '50s sitcom and winds up as a somewhat heavy-handed parable of totalitarianism and racial discrimination, with deliberate echoes of "1984," "Fahrenheit 451" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."
While echoing "Network," "Capricorn One" and "1984," as well as the cult television series "The Prisoner," "The Truman Show" defines its own niche.
"Truman" has drawn early comparisons to "Forrest Gump," but it plays more like a sunnier "1984," with Christof as a slightly kinder version of Big Brother.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Directed by Francis Lawrence
influenced by Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Themes
Both in their own right are clear borrowings from “1984” and “Lord of the Flies” and, more to the point, dumbed-down fusions of the two groundbreaking classics.
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Directed by George Nolfi
influenced by Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Themes
It doesn’t excuse The Adjustment Bureau’s lazy, literal Deus Ex Machina conclusion, which throws away any good will that was built up as the movie hinted at working its way through Dick’s normal themes of government and corporate control, and how controlling our impulses is how the world will eventually collapse into a 1984-style police state.
Based on the dystopic novel by P.D. James, the theme of Children of Men continues a long tradition in cinema and literature that owes its origins to the seminal influence of Fritz Lang's peerless 1926 film masterpiece Metropolis, George Orwell's novel 1984 (1948) and Aldous Huxley's brilliant novel Brave New World (1932).
While watching the mayhem Tyler and his apprentices cause, Jack becomes increasingly disturbed by the mindlessness of the followers, that are highly reminiscent of Orwell’s "1984" predictions, and the increasingly violent acts they pursue.
As lame as its tone-deaf title, “In Time” is the latest dystopian vision from New Zealand-born writer/director Andrew Niccol (“Gattaca,” “S1m0ne,” “Lord of War”), a filmmaker whose mother apparently hit him over the head with a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” when he was an infant.
Any omen-of-the-future movie inevitably owes much of its mood and theme to "1984" and "Brave New World."
Decades before George Orwell wrote “1984” and before that modern dystopian trend-setting film “Blade Runner,” Fritz Lang created an earlier dystopia in “Metropolis,” a nightmare collectivist future society where the menial workers shuffle off to work below ground and the intellectuals live in towers of steel in the sky.
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Directed by Armando Iannucci
influenced by Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Themes
Presenting… Monty Python’s production of George Orwell’s 1984.