{"id":7469,"date":"2012-03-31T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2012-03-31T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:14:30","slug":"1984-1984-michael-radford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7469","title":{"rendered":"1984 (1984, Michael Radford)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool adaptation, with fine visuals by Radford (<em>Il Postino<\/em>) and the great Roger Deakins (pre-Coens), and a wonderful John Hurt performance.  Hurt is not killed at the end (at least not explicitly), and the phrase &#8220;Big Brother is watching&#8221; never appears. Surprisingly good\/subtle musical score by Eurythmics, which the director hated.  Hmmm, or is it subtle because we heard the Dominic Muldowney score instead?  Watched on netflix, so it&#8217;s hard to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Hurt (in <em>The Hit<\/em> the same year), a government newspaper revisionist, falls for Suzanna Hamilton (of the Sting version of <em>Brimstone &#038; Treacle<\/em>), dreams of escaping control of the party and finding a place where love is still possible.  Richard Burton (of <em>Exorcist II<\/em>, argh) is on to their plan, and subjects Hurt to torture until he comes to truly love Big Brother.  Katy didn&#8217;t much like it, putting a damper on the beginning of Dystopia Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool adaptation, with fine visuals by Radford (Il Postino) and the great Roger Deakins (pre-Coens), and a wonderful John Hurt performance. Hurt is not killed at the end (at least not explicitly), and the phrase &#8220;Big Brother is watching&#8221; never appears. Surprisingly good\/subtle musical score by Eurythmics, which the director hated. Hmmm, or is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,1524,476,897,1534,1535],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-dystopia","tag-george-orwell","tag-john-hurt","tag-michael-radford","tag-richard-burton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}