Monday, December 13, 2004 |
20:01
I did mention that I was in a movie watching mood.
Anyway, I have just returned from the living room where I finally scoured the DVD and learned a whole bunch of stuff about the movie and about the author Ray Bradbury. There was so much I learned from it but I'm just going to reiterate my favourite parts from it only.
- The temperature at which book paper burns really is at 451 fahrenheit and that was where Ray got the title for his book from a fireman. He just switched the two words around. I have to agree with that it is very catchy.
- The director, Francois Truffaut, and main lead actor, Oskar Werner, were constantly at each other's throats, that in the last few scenes of the movie, Oskar actually had his hair cut differently so that there would be a continuity error throughout the ending of the movie. This was just to show his intense dislike for Truffaut because of their differences in how both of them wanted the main character, Guy Montag, to be portrayed in the movie.
- The female lead actress, Julie Christie, actually played two roles in the movie; one as Montag's conformist wife, Linda, and the other as Montag's free-spirited neighbour, Clarisse. I have to commend her performance to be able to pull it off like that so well.
- Truffaut and Oskar had great difficulty working together on the movie, so much so that they didn't even speak to each other at one time for weeks. I found this very weird since I always imagined that the relationship between the director and his main actor had to be quite a flawless and almost wonderful relationship for the movie to be quite a success. Evidently, it was not so for these two "artistically different" people.
- The ending of the movie was one of the best endings of a movie that I've ever seen because it was so perfect. If I type anything here, there'll be major spoilers so go watch it if you can get your hands on the DVD.
Well, those were just some of the memorable parts from the 'Making Of' section of the DVD, which I thoroughly enjoyed. That's all for now. I'm really getting the hang of blogging now and it is quite fun, even though I don't really want to admit it because I used to be those people who scoffed at bloggers and now look at me. (no offense meant to anyone)
However, I would like to know something from my fellow reader(s). Just answer as spontaneously as you can.
If you could be any book that you've read in your life so far, what would it be and why?
I think I'd like to be Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist'. Simply because it is one of the most beautiful book that you can ever read and I do encourage everyone to read it at least once. You won't regret it. JRR Tolkien's LOTR book would be the second choice for me but I don't think I'd like to be such a long and tedious book now.
Okay, took me a long time to decide and I still can't pick one. So I'm going to cheat and pick two:
1) Esther Freud's Peerless Flats. Just because I really like this one character in the book and eh, well, I think I relate to her a lot.
2) Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat. Er, well, I'd love to be this book because I love the way she writes. I'd LOVE to live my life the way she writes the book. Very light, magical and pretty.
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1) Esther Freud's Peerless Flats. Just because I really like this one character in the book and eh, well, I think I relate to her a lot.
2) Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat. Er, well, I'd love to be this book because I love the way she writes. I'd LOVE to live my life the way she writes the book. Very light, magical and pretty.