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Jan 29, 2014 07:23AM
They are re-making the movie? I won't watch it if Kristen Stewart is in it. She ruins every movie that she is in.
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"It's true. I don't think I'm going to watch it either. Watching her..."Wait a kid is going to play Winston who is about 39 years old in the book. He is supposed to be having a love affair with a young lady. What the hell. I will not be watching this movie. Get the damn ages right for once. I also felt the same way about her preformance in Snow White. She ruined my favorite fairytale character.
Kristen Stewart is best, if one could say that, at playing ethereal, sensitive parts. Julia, in 1984, should be played best with a character more carnal in sexuality that the tepid sexuality we have seen in her other two megahits.I could see a Julie Christi or Sophia Loren playing the part 40 years ago. Or a few years ago by Charlize Theron or Meg Tilly´s sister. Or an intelligent Ellen Barkin 30 years ago. Or the Mendes woman ten years ago. But Kristin Stewart. Nope. Give her fairy tale roles playing sweet, innocent princesses and keep her there.
With everything so polarized/politicized today, I fear that Orwell's willful ambiguity may be lost. Other classic works have been defaced by a "contemporary relevance" spin on the book. Think how Hawthorne must have been revolving in his grave after "The Scarlet Letter".
Well, I'm more concern about the director, he's a guy making romantic comedias/dramas. Nothing against romantic movies, but this is 1984, and it's going to be "futuristic" "romantic" and it's categorize as Sci-fi. I just hope they desist doing this.
Agreed, the idea that a younger generation will grow up with some trite 'modernized' version of 1984 is appalling. Most movie to book adaptions are terrible because anybody who actually gave a damn would put in the minimal effort to read the book.
1984 is not romantic. And it is certainly not a love story. It's set in a time when emotion is downgraded to animalistic instinct. When people no longer know how to love because humanity has been broken. "You can't deny the humanity in everyone"? Yes you can. That's the point. Big Brother has created hollow shells of men and women by destroying their humanity, controlling everything about their existence. In the end, everyone is destroyed. Everyone.
