Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was originally published as a shorter novella in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Film and radio versions

The book was made into a film in 1966 by François Truffaut, with Oskar Werner as Montag and Julie Christie in the dual roles of Linda Montag and Clarisse. There were some differences; for example, Clarisse survives throughout the film and accompanies Montag when he leaves the city, and the character of Faber does not appear at all in this version. Bradbury has said that Truffaut "captured the soul and essence of the book," although he disliked the elimination of Faber.

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1966 - François Truffaut - Oskar Werner - Julie Christie

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The film was shot at Pinewood studios in England, with the monorail scene taken at Chateneuf-sur-Loire near Orleans, France.

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England - Monorail - Orleans - France

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Chronological List of Books in Fahrenheit 451 the movie

Note: Neither Bradbury nor Truffaut chose the books that appeared in the film.

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• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
• A History of Science & Technology
• Wreck of the Running Gate
• The Moon & Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
• Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
• Plexus by Henry Miller
• Leo Tolstoy
• Walt Whitman
• William Faulkner
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
• The Castle on the Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
• The House of the Arrow by A. E. W. Mason
• Death of a Dream
• Lewis et Irene by Paul Morand
• Othello by Francis Bacon
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Le Monde a Cote by Gyp
• My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski
• Gasparo Hauser
• She Might Have Been Queen by Geoffrey Bocca
• Social Aspects of Disease by A. Leslie Banks
• The Good Life
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Ethics of Aristotle
• Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler
• The World of Salvador Dali by Robert Descharnes
• Interglossa by Lancelot Hogben
• Jazz
• Christopher Landon
• Or Be the Deed
• Jeanne D'Arc by Joseph Delter
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
• The White Friday Murders
• My Life and Loves by Frank Harris
• A Year of Grace
• Nest of Vipers by Tod Claymore
• The Evil of the Day by Thomas Sterling
• Nadia
• Argos
• Les Negres by Jean Genet
• Death on Milestone Buttress by Glyn Carr
• The Weather by George Kimble & Raymond Bush
• Journey into Space by Charles Chilton
• Holy Deadlock by A. P. Herbert
• Their London Cousins
• My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
• Marcel Proust
• Sweet Danger by Margaret Allingham
• Roberte Ce Soir by Pierre Klossowski
• Confessions of an Irish Rebel by Brendan Behan
• The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
• Death of a Ghost by Margaret Allingham
• Du Cinema
• The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Ha?ek
• Deux Anglaises et le Continent
• Metaphysics by Aristotle
• The Jason Murders by John Newton Chance
• A History of Torture
• Petrouchka by Igor Stravinsky
• Look With Mother ABC Book
• The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens
• The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
• The Owls House by Crosbie Garstin
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Bodley Head
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Baby Doll
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• New Writing
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Jean Cocteau
• Marie Dubois by Jacques Audiberti
• Sermons and Soda-Water by John O'Hara
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• La Peau de Chagrin by Honoré de Balzac
• Dom Juan by Moliere
• The Mystery of Jack the Ripper by Leonard Matters
• Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Justine by Marquis de Sade
• Rebus by Paul Gegauff
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Geheimnisse der Furstin von Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac
• Zazie dans le Metro by Raymond Queneau
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• Le Avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• In ze pocket by Walter S. Tevis
• Spanish Crossword Puzzle Book
• Mad magazine
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Raffles and Miss Blandish by George Orwell
• Journal of Andre Bulat
• The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
• Republic by Plato
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Corsair by George Byron
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• The Jewish Question by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
• Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
• Memoirs of Saint Simon by Louis de Rouvroy
• Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

There are plans for a remake in 2005, directed by Frank Darabont.

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Remake - 2005 - Frank Darabont

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In addition to the movies, there have been at least two BBC Radio 4 dramatisations, both of which follow the book very closely.

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