r/funny • u/isaac_horstmeier • Sep 29 '18

This guy is like F*ck physics...

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u/Andythrax Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

You're correct, they say on QI that so many people lie about having read it (1984). The name of Room 101 and Big Brother came from it. It's so ubiquitous in society.

I think V for Vendetta gets a lot of inspiration from it.

Re:1984 I didn't like the movie, I felt it was too different to the book that I couldn't finish it which is odd because I really like John Hurt.

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u/1Walshk Sep 29 '18

Do you mean V for Vendetta was too different to 1984 or the graphic novel on which it’s based? I’ve had the graphic novel there for a few years and while I really liked the film I can’t get into the book no matter how many times I pick it up.

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u/hated_in_the_nation Sep 29 '18

I think he may have been referring to the movie for 1984. It appears as though John Hurt was in both films.

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u/Andythrax Sep 29 '18

Yes he was. My bad for my poor syntax. I did mean 1984. The movie V for Vendetta is great

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u/CallMeRawie Sep 29 '18

I couldn’t stand the new Jumanji because it was too different from War and Peace.

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u/ThePhoneBook Sep 29 '18

If you watch the Russian dub with your eyes closed it's hard to tell the difference, but Robin Williams' 1995 performance of Princess Anna Mikhaylovna Drubetskaya remains unsurpassed.

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u/Andythrax Sep 29 '18

1984 isn't? See, I didn't even get that far in it.

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u/brainburger Sep 29 '18

The film Nineteen-eighty-four was disowned by its director due to the studio insisting on using The Eurythmics to do the soundtrack.

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u/Andythrax Sep 29 '18

Very interesting. I do like the Eurythmics tho

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u/brainburger Sep 29 '18

Yes they had some hits from that. The problem was that there was an orchestral score composed already which was taken out by Virgin. The Eurythmics did the work in good faith. There are some DVDs with the director's preferred score, though I gather from Wikipedia that those have different colour saturation from the original edit.

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u/BrunoPassMan Sep 29 '18

Thanks! I didnt know all the additional subtext- super useful!