But worst of all do I think Huxley`s ideas and subtext on eugenics has been sucessfully translated on screen ? No I don`t think it has, it doesn`t seem that the happiness found in utopian future is down to genetic engineering - it`s down to a drug called Soma. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom. Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything. What were the wars about ? Why haven`t the Alpha society captured savages before etc ? There`s little in the way of backstory but enough backstory to make you realise it`s not been explained enough. Brave New World Quotes Showing 1-30 of 878. As I said I`ve never read the book but everything seems skimmed over in such a haphazard and underdeveloped manner it`s almost impossible to understand the point the original novel might be trying to make. By 2012, it had dropped from the Top 10 altogether once more. Unfortunately it`s the script by Dan Mazur that seems to be at fault. 3 on the ALA’s Top 10 Challenged Books that year, and No. Oh and do I get the feeling the U2 concerts of the 1990s had some influence here ? I guess too that there wasn`t much money awarded to the production hence Libman and Williams decided to make everything look like the present day, but wether it`s down to artistic grounds or funding at least we don`t see riduclous overdeveloped visions of what future cities may look like and if the future resembles a sexy soft core anthology series like HOTLINE then I`m all for it. If I remember correctly the 1980 mini series version of the book suffered badly from having all the characters dressed up in silver foil costumes like in an extremely bad B movie but here thankfully everyone dresses in an entirely sensible and recognisable manner. Well I guess the directors deserve some faint praise for making everything watchable. Why don`t you read classic novels Theo ? Because I usually stay up half the night watching shows like OZ on late night televisionĪnd speaking of OZ the directors of this TVM Leslie Libman & Larry Williams directed one of the outstanding episodes of the series `Straight Life` which fans will remember was themed around drug taking. BRAVE NEW WORLD is one of many classic novels I have never got round to reading.
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