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   alt.books.george-orwell      Discussing 1984, sadly coming true...      4,149 messages   

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   Joe Fineman to Leebehr   
   Re: Productions of 1984   
   21 Jun 10 20:10:27   
   
   64b8bbf2   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Leebehr  writes:   
      
   > I just got my hands on a double disk set of 2 versions of 1984.  One   
   > is the 1954 BBC version with Peter Cushing as Winston and the other   
   > is the 1956 version with Edmund O'Brien.  Neither disk has any   
   > extras-- just the movies but that's not important.   
      
   Thanks very much for mentioning the existence of the former.  I'll try   
   to look it up.   
      
   > Goldstein retains his original name, and we hear of all THREE   
   > traitors.  In the later version instead of Goldstein we have   
   > "Kalador", no Aaronson   
      
   I noticed that with some disdain.  Evidently the intent was to remove   
   all trace of antisemitism -- from a satire on 20th-century   
   totalitarianism!   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  People use music to cover up the silence, and sex to cover  :||   
   ||:  up the Silence.                                             :||   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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