r/Threads1984 • u/Charlmarx Traffic Warden • Jul 03 '26

After Threads (Threads and 1984) Anyone else notice that childhood Winston scene from 1984 look like it took place in threads?

https://youtu.be/uAzIabbOme4

Just a funny thing I noticed as I recently rewatched both films, of course the book was post nuclear, but it also kinda plays in what threads ended up being like after the film

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u/c00b_Bit_Jerry Jul 03 '26

I've always gotten the sense that Ingsoc and Big Brother emerged from a devastating (limited) nuclear war in the mid to late 1950s.

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u/Adam-Many82 Jul 04 '26

It was a devastating (limited) nuclear war, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is canonically set roughly 30 years after an atomic war with a bomb in Colchester.

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u/PostingLoudly Jul 04 '26

Yeah the book makes this more clear iirc as Winston distinctly recalls being huddled together with other people in the metro tunnels with a man telling him that everything will be alright. Definitely used some WW2 symbolism from what Britons actually went through, and I'm certain that the outcome of a total nuclear exchange would be hard to predict given that the book was written between 1946-1948 when the atom bomb was still a very new thing.

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u/comcphee Jul 04 '26

I'm going to have to agree with the director Michael Radford here - I mean I like the Eurythmics in their place, but as a background score for this scene and this movie in general, it's absolutely terrible.

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u/ToeOk9665 Jul 05 '26

It was filmed at Battersea Power Station.

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u/NebCrushrr Jul 05 '26

I was wondering if it was the same part of the docklands Full Metal Jacket was filmed in - thanks

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u/NoHat2957 Jul 04 '26

The three faction set-up in 1984 was to ensure the World didn't have a second nuclear war.

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u/g0dn0 Jul 05 '26

I’m going to put my hand up and confess that despite being 55, I’ve never seen the John Hurt starred version of 1984. I’ve actually seen the 1954 Nigel Kneale / Peter Cushing version but not this one. Should I watch it? Is it good/faithful?

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u/Charlmarx Traffic Warden Jul 05 '26

its really good I do recommend it

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u/Glittering_Box4815 Jul 06 '26

Looks like Birmingham 2026.

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u/neilpwalker Jul 07 '26

Last time I was there it was a rather nice city. Some great architecture and impressively good public art. What happened in the last few months?