Thursday, November 13, 2008

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

This movie reminded me of an episode of The Love Boat where Julie, the cruise director, wanted to be a part of the "club" that the male crew members told her existed. They said that to be initiated, she would have to memorize Moby Dick, which starts "Call me Ismael." (The only reason I know that is because of this episode.) She did memorize the book, but it turns out, of course, that the "club" was fake - they never thought she would actually commit the novel to memory. Lucky for her that in the future there is a community of people who have memorized books to preserve them & to protect them from the fire men.

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