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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury shows us an example of a very interesting and weird world. The main character “Guy Montag” is a fireman that burns stuff (books) rather than extinguishing fire. This book has many plot points that help the book flow evenly and in a smooth way and is very different in many ways to its later movie directed by Francois Truffaut. Plot: In the movie “Fahrenheit 451” they had to make lots of small (and some quite big) changes to make it reasonable, like instead of having three wall T.V’s it had one that was fairly small one. In the beginning of the movie the see the credits but with no words because words are banned so all the audience see are antennas this is followed by a man in a house and the firemen siren coming towards the house. These firemen are all Censorship is very common throughout this book because books are banned and the government stops you from reading them the amount of information given throughout the movie and book show that they keep the wars quiet and don’t share as much info as they could. Another example I had found about censorship was that the tv’s absorb everyone, like when linda invites friends over they’re watching tv, but that’s also because linda always watches tv. So when everyone is absorbed they don’t care about the outside world that much. Technology: In fahrenheit 451 technology is shown in the way of being something that everyone relies on. There are many examples throughout the movie and book on technology that’s used even in our days. Many if these technological items include the seashells in the book or the jet packs the men have in the movie near the end. Other: Some costume designs we see is linda always wearing clothes that are yellow/gold. We see Montag always wearing black even with Granger and at the campsite. All the vehicles in the movie were painted red and its recurring many

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