HBO channel is going to film "451 ° Fahrenheit"

A totalitarian society that relies on popular culture and consumer thinking, in which all books are to be burned. The townsfolk hurry to work or from work, never talk about what they think or feel, talk about meaningless and empty things, admire material values, read only comics. Keeping books is a crime; and people who are able to think critically are outlawed.

Such a grim future describes Ray Bradbury in the novel " 451 degrees Fahrenheit ", perhaps his best work.

In a strange way, the dystopia written in 1953 is becoming increasingly relevant in our time, when governments of different countries prohibit the dissemination of "malicious" information and shut down websites. In 2012, Google proposed to standardize the new HTTP 451 status code , which will warn users that “the page they are requesting exists but is unavailable for legal reasons.”

The novel "451 degrees Fahrenheit" is now more relevant than ever. Not surprisingly, the film company HBO has decided to film this classic piece .

The only adaptation of the story took place in the distant 1966: it was made by French director Francois Truffaut.



There was no more adaptation. Ironically, the book itself in the United States was censored and published in an abbreviated version, and in the USSR ideological journals of the Central Committee of the CPSU criticized it, but this did not lead to a ban on the work, and it became widely known.

HBO chose screenwriter and director of the film Ramina Bakhrani (Ramin Bahrani). Let's hope that the screen version will be as exciting as the book itself.