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<blockquote data-quote="The Liturgist" data-source="post: 77456294" data-attributes="member: 424341"><p>Oh yes, especially the scenes on Coruscant and the nightmarish dystopian prison camp on Narkina V, which was visually reminscent of THX 1138 and also called to mind in terms of its visual appearnce the description George Orwell provided in Nineteen Eighty Four for the Ministry of Love, “The Place Where There Is No Darkness”, except perhaps in Room 101, which alas Narkina V lacked an analogue for, but to go there would probably have been too dark even for <em>Andor</em>.</p><p></p><p>*I feel compelled to offer as an Orwellian footnote that I felt that the 1984 film adaptation of <em>Nineteen Eighty Four</em> dropped the ball by making Miniluv look too grimey, when the book implied that it was doubleplus ungrimey, if you will forgive the psuedo-newspeak. Actual newspeak is sufficiently challenging for oldthinkers like us who don’t bellyfeel Ingsoc, that according to <em>Nineteen Eighty Four</em>, only the front page of the Times was routinely written in it, by highly trained specialists who were expert in its grammar, punctuation and ever-shrinking dictionary, in order to avoid including any oldspeak words, one might assume, assuming assumption is not a thoughtcrime in Oceania.</p><p></p><p>In addition to editing the film to remove the annoying pop music Richard Branson substituted for the beautiful orchestral score (only a few fragments of which survived in the film, like the national anthem of Oceania and the hiking song) and to restore the original color palette, removing the washed out look (both edits have already been done on a special DVD directors cut, which I really want but can’t find), a further edit to digitally remove the grime from the sets of the Ministry of Love and make the interior look brighter and more futuristic would, I think, go a long way towards making the film a fuller adaptation of Orwell’s concept.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Liturgist, post: 77456294, member: 424341"] Oh yes, especially the scenes on Coruscant and the nightmarish dystopian prison camp on Narkina V, which was visually reminscent of THX 1138 and also called to mind in terms of its visual appearnce the description George Orwell provided in Nineteen Eighty Four for the Ministry of Love, “The Place Where There Is No Darkness”, except perhaps in Room 101, which alas Narkina V lacked an analogue for, but to go there would probably have been too dark even for [I]Andor[/I]. *I feel compelled to offer as an Orwellian footnote that I felt that the 1984 film adaptation of [I]Nineteen Eighty Four[/I] dropped the ball by making Miniluv look too grimey, when the book implied that it was doubleplus ungrimey, if you will forgive the psuedo-newspeak. Actual newspeak is sufficiently challenging for oldthinkers like us who don’t bellyfeel Ingsoc, that according to [I]Nineteen Eighty Four[/I], only the front page of the Times was routinely written in it, by highly trained specialists who were expert in its grammar, punctuation and ever-shrinking dictionary, in order to avoid including any oldspeak words, one might assume, assuming assumption is not a thoughtcrime in Oceania. In addition to editing the film to remove the annoying pop music Richard Branson substituted for the beautiful orchestral score (only a few fragments of which survived in the film, like the national anthem of Oceania and the hiking song) and to restore the original color palette, removing the washed out look (both edits have already been done on a special DVD directors cut, which I really want but can’t find), a further edit to digitally remove the grime from the sets of the Ministry of Love and make the interior look brighter and more futuristic would, I think, go a long way towards making the film a fuller adaptation of Orwell’s concept. [/QUOTE]
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