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Nineteen Eighty-Four Quotes (1984)
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Famous Nineteen Eighty-Four Quotations
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Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret. Aside from criminalizing sex and interpersonal relationships, the ruling party in their country Oceania both fabricates reality and reconstructs history for the sake of oppressing the masses. They brainwash their citizens via large, propaganda-spewing TV monitors installed in their living rooms, which also inspect everyone's activities. Hurt and Hamilton are among the few we see desperately trying to fight the system by keeping control of their thoughts and beliefs. While the atmosphere becomes a bit too stifling at times, the images are quite striking with their muted colors and dilapidated sets. In an interesting bit of casting, Richard Burton costars (in his final role) as a government agent who surreptitiously exposes Hurt to the ideas of resistance. Unlike many like-minded films, 1984 does not offer a flashy vision of the future, but then that aspect makes it feel all the more real. In an age when more and more of our everyday activities are being scrutinized, Big Brother may not be so far off after all. --Bryan Reesman
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- Charrington: Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Winston Smith: What was that?
Charrington: Something old... »
- O'Brien: If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. »
- O'Brien: We shall meet in the place were there is no darkness. »
- O'Brien: What are your feelings towards Big Brother?
Winston Smith: I hate him.
O'Brien: You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him. »
- Tillotson: Beautiful thing, the destruction of words. »
- Winston Smith: April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings. »
- Winston Smith: I love you. »
- Winston Smith: If there is hope, it lies in the proles. If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them. »
- Winston Smith: It was three years ago, on a dark evening. Easy to slip the patrols, I had gone into the proletarian areas. There was no one else on the street, and no telescreens. She said, "Two dollars.", so I went with her. She had a young face, painted very thick. Really, t'was the paint that appealed to me: white like a mask, and bright red lips. No preliminaries. Standing there with the smell of dead insects and cheap perfume, I went and did it anyway. »
- Winston Smith: Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt.
Julia: Well, I ought to suit you, then. I'm corrupt to the core.
Winston Smith: Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me...
Julia: I adore it. »
- Winston Smith: Rutherford unperson. Substitute Ogilvy. Ogilvy biog details as follows: war hero, recently killed, Malabar front. Today awarded posthumous secondary order of conspicuous merit second class. »
- Winston Smith: She's beautiful.
Julia: She's a metre across the hips, easily.
Winston Smith: That is her style of beauty. »
- Winston Smith: They got you too?
O'Brien: They got me a long time ago. »
- Winston Smith: Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself. »
- Winston Smith: We are the dead. »
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