She is happy staying home and smoking, nursing a sleeping pill habit and watching their “wall screen” – a big-screen TV in a 1966 film! Linda’s favorite program is “The Family,” a government show that can interact with individual viewers. Montag’s wife, Linda (also Julie Christie, but with longer hair), cares nothing about books. Soon he brings a book home from one of his raids, and before long, more of them. But her next question is, “Are you happy?” – and that starts him thinking. Montag’s neighbor Clarisse (Julie Christie), 20, introduces herself to him on a commuter monorail, finds out what he does, and asks him if he ever reads any of the books he’s about to burn. Their biggest hazard is the snitches – every society has them – who anonymously tip off the fire crews about them. So, no matter the odds, no matter the risks and the penalties, they preserve their books, squirreling them away in the nooks and crannies and secret hiding places of their homes. And some brave hearts will never submit to tyranny. They make them anti-social.”īut…people still have minds and souls and consciences. He can sound like his boss, though he says, “Books make people unhappy. He gives his job little thought things have always been this way. He performs his book-burning well he handles a mean flame thrower and is up for a promotion. Montag (Oskar Werner) is in the Captain’s crew. The only way to be happy is for everyone to be made equal.” On one book-burning run, the Captain explains his raison d’être: “You see, it’s… it’s no good, Montag.
Philosophers all say the same thing yet argue with each other. Novels make people wish for lives they can never have. “The books have nothing to say,” he claims. The fire chief, known as the Captain (Cyril Cusack), is a sadist who mistreats his recruits and takes sick pleasure in burning books. The job of ferreting out and destroying any contraband books still around falls to the fire department after all, who knows more about fire? The fire crews do their dirty work with grim purpose – and flame throwers.
A totalitarian government hates independent thinking so much that for decades or longer it has banned the printed word. This is the exactly backwards – and backward, too – world we see in Fahrenheit 451, the 1966 movie made by François Truffaut and based on the 1953 science fiction novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Montag (fireman): Put fires out! Who told you that? …Oh, what a strange idea! Houses have always been fireproof. Clarisse: Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?
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