March 8, 2014: A New Film Adaptation of George Orwells 1984 is in the Works and Ron Howard Will Produce it. IF its made, it will likely portray the Tea Party as the Party and Winston and Julia as Obama-loving Liberals fighting the evil right wing extremists, even though Liberalism is the philosophy of big government and the nanny state. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard produced Dan Browns Angels and Demons, the biggest Illuminati whitewash EVER, so I have mixed feelings about this. The delay in securing the rights are probably due to disagreements about how the storyline will be portrayed. Nineteen Eighty-Four, sometimes published as1984, is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or, in the governments invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Partyelite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes. The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their oppressive rule in the name of a supposed greater good. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line. Smith is a diligent and skilful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thought crime, Newspeak, Room 101, Telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered everyday use since its publication in 1949. Moreover, Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editors list, and 6 on the readers list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBCs survey The Big Read.
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