Reply #8: Not only was Cheyefsky serious and a prophet himself, [View All]

[tom_paine]

his movie is almost banal and anachroistic given the absolute and total SHATTERING of his "mad vision" (at least it seemed that way in Old Free Aerica, circa 1976) by Amerikan Reality.

The Mao Tse Tung Hour? ...been there done that now thousands of times (COPS, Real TV, probably bunches of other crap I don't know about)

Network, one of my favorite movies, has not only come to pass in full but well BEYOND and closer to Orwell than to Cheyefsky.

And now I know what it feels like to live in the book "Farenheit 451".

At least Bradbury got the particular detail of professional book burners/fireman incorrect.

Otherwise, from a character point of view, his book fully and firmly describes modern Imperial Amerika, up to and including Sony Walkmans and Commercials blaring on the Subway.