Fahrenheit 451 -- The Complete Film

A great book, one that ironically still gets banned from time to time in those places where books still get burned. Not a bad movie, either.

For those who have never read the book:

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian soft science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was published in 1953.

It is set in a society where censorship is prevalent, and moronic citizens learn only from television. Most books are banned and critical thought is suppressed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this case, means "book burner"). 451 degrees Fahrenheit is stated as "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns …". It was originally published as a shorter novella, The Fireman, in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. A film adaptation, by François Truffaut, was released in 1966, and another is anticipated. In addition to the movies, there have been at least two BBC Radio 4 dramatizations, both of which follow the book very closely.

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