Dreamcasting Adaptations #16: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

Well it's been a week and we've got a number of casts. Anyone else with a last minute entry has till 4:30, then the voting begins.
 
Planet-man said:
I was in Math class reading for the remainder of the period after a test and that part happened a minute before the bell wrang. I grabbed the girl next to me and full-on kissed her. She asked what the hell I was doing and I yelled "Don't you see? She loves him! SHE LOVES HIM!".

The rest of the morning was me waiting for lunch so I could keep reading. That was easily my favourite day of reading the whole book, because even when I wasn't reading it I was just so happy and excited with where the story went it made me just think "life is awesome" all day.
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Really? I barely reacted to that part.

The ending made me literally cry myself to sleep. I didn't know that actually happened in real life.
 
I've added a description of my invisioned opening sequence that I came up with back when I read the book 2 years ago. Check it out.

TwilightEL said:
Really? I barely reacted to that part.
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:shock:

:?

The ending made me literally cry myself to sleep. I didn't know that actually happened in real life.
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What I like about the ending and more importantly, the Room 101 revelation, is that it's completely necessary in terms of the book being used as a know-thy-enemy/know what's at stake eye-opener, because it's exactly how a system like that would try to work. I've come to terms with the ending by deciding that even though Winston was changed, even though there was the "real" betrayal after all, and the affair and rebelion will be forgotten and erased, whatever the Inner's say.... the fact that they happened in the first place is still something, and all those moments still exist somewhere, with the past.

I also like to imagine the Earth was later invaded by aliens and the resulting chaos destroyed the system. And don't even get me started about my partially storyboarded, eventually to be animated alternate ending...
 
Planet-man said:
What I like about the ending and more importantly, the Room 101 revelation, is that it's completely necessary in terms of the book being used as a know-thy-enemy/know what's at stake eye-opener, because it's exactly how a system like that would try to work. I've come to terms with the ending by deciding that even though Winston was changed, even though there was the "real" betrayal after all, and the affair and rebelion will be forgotten and erased, whatever the Inner's say.... the fact that they happened in the first place is still something, and all those moments still exist somewhere, with the past.
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And there are all the people in the equatorial regions. They may live lives embroiled in war, poverty and death, but they still have the opportunity to live and die free.

Planet-man said:
I also like to imagine the Earth was later invaded by aliens and the resulting chaos destroyed the system. And don't even get me started about my partially storyboarded, eventually to be animated alternate ending...
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I was reading the Black Dossier, and they talk about
O'Brien being the "leader" of the party and how Ingsoc fell. "Leader"? The party has no leader. Did the writer even read the book?

But then I realized... if that happened, it would be beautiful. Because O'Brien knew that having a leader, a real flesh-and-blood leader would destroy the party. He knew it. So if he actually became leader? And everyone on his level or higher allowed him to do it? It would mean that under the layers of brainwashing, doublethink and self-censoring, they knowingly allowed the party to crumble and decay from within. That would be amazing.

Emerson as Syme is brilliant. I always imagined him as a little bit scrawny, with round glasses and this geeky, creepy enthusiasm. That's the perfect match.
 
No offence guys but shouldn't this thread stay about the dreamcasting not the book? If you want to continue talking about the book why not make a thread on the book.
 
Langsta said:
Really?
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Oh yeah, the whole Oligarchical Collectivism thing was his idea, which he subconsciously suggested to Orwell when passing through him as elementary particles in the air during his time as a non-corporeal entity, just before the book was published in 1948. He then spent the next few years interacting with nature and finally being absorbed into some soil out of which grew a stalk of corn, which was later eaten by a Northhampton brewery worker named Ernest Moore, who turned part of it into biological fluids which he used to impregnate his wife, who gave birth to the human form of Alan Moore in 1953.
 
Planet-man said:
Oh yeah, the whole Oligarchical Collectivism thing was his idea, which he subconsciously suggested to Orwell when passing through him as elementary particles in the air during his time as a non-corporeal entity, just before the book was published in 1948. He then spent the next few years interacting with nature and finally being absorbed into some soil out of which grew a stalk of corn, which was later eaten by a Northhampton brewery worker named Ernest Moore, who turned part of it into biological fluids which he used to impregnate his wife, who gave birth to the human form of Alan Moore in 1953.
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....Yeah:)
 
Ooo, I didn't know this round was ending so quickly.



NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR


I imagine a new 1984 as being a pretty direct adaptation of the book, though I'm sure it would be difficult for Hollywood not to **** it up. Pretty importantly, I think the movie would have to keep it's focus on the story and not try to come up with stupid parallels with modern political trivialities, like some film adaptations of dystopian stories. (Begins with a "V" and ends with "for Vendetta".)


Winston Smith - Daniel Day Lewis

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Yes, DARKKNIGHT already took Daniel Day Lewis, but dammit I had him all cast and he's a perfect choice. He's a great actor and he can bring the kind of intensity and reserve that's needed to play Winston.


Julia - Ellen Page

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This was an odd one to cast, and I wanted to go with someone unconventional. Ellen Page may be perpetually cast in teen roles, but I think her strength as an actress is her maturity. I imagine Julia as having a very young, naive sort of appearance that masks a lot of wisdom and cleverness. I can clearly picture Ellen Page pulling this off. (Plus it would be an opportunity for Ourchair to finally see her nekkid.)


O'Brien - Tom Wilkinson

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Honestly, I found this one a no-brainer. Tom Wilkinson is an excellent actor and with a pair of glasses and a mustache, he's about as close as you're going to get to what I imagined O'Brien looking like. I'm surprised no one else cast him.


Big Brother - Donald Sutherland

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Reputable actor? Check. Sharp features? Check. "Piercing gaze"? Check. Donald Sutherland is Big Brother.
 
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