--- product_id: 3385320 title: "Fahrenheit 451 [DVD]" price: "₹ 1487" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/3385320-fahrenheit-451-dvd store_origin: IN region: India --- # Fahrenheit 451 [DVD] **Price:** ₹ 1487 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Fahrenheit 451 [DVD] - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 1487 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/3385320-fahrenheit-451-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the challenging dual role of Oskar Werner's pleasure-seeking conformist wife, Linda, and his rebellious, book-collecting mistress, Clarisse. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Truffaut's first English language production is an eerie fable where mankind becomes the ultimate evil.Bonus Content:Feature Commentary with Julie ChristyThe Novel: A Discussion with Author Ray BradburyThe Making of Fahrenheit 451The Music of Fahrenheit 451Original Title Sequence of FeaturePhoto Poster GalleryTheatrical TrailerRecommendations Review: Flowers of Fire - It's curious that a director who spent so much of his early career railing against the tyranny of the literary tradition in French cinema should spend so much of his career either adapting novels or filling his films with techniques from and references to literature at every turn, so his attraction to Ray Bradbury's fable isn't that surprising. What is surprising is that in many ways it's his most purely cinematic film, discarding his usual over-reliance on voice-over to carry underwritten scenes for more purely cinematic forms of interpretation. Even the readings from the forbidden books are kept to a minimum: the obsession is in Montag's behavior, not the words he speaks. Truffaut's playfulness is all over the material, from casting an actor who forbade his children to watch TV or go to the cinema as the fire chief (Cyril Cusack in the film's standout performance) to dramatically masking off half the screen and heightening the dramatic music for what turns out to be a less than dramatic moment in a search - and that's without the inclusion of Cahiers du Cinema among the burning books or mentioning Anton Diffring's brief moment in drag. But then this is an absurdist world, where firemen slide up poles and start fires and where fascism is accepted in that way it always is when gradually introduced because of people's innate ability to adapt to their circumstances, no matter how absurd or restricting. It improves on Bradbury's novel by losing some of the more distancing sci-fi devices such as the fortune telling dog, and setting it's future in a soulless post-war New Town environment that is close enough to the real look of the time to add to the credibility. Much of what there is in the film isn't that far from reality, with plasma wall screens offering inept interactive' TV (even down to pressing the red button) becoming status symbols, and betrayal increasingly encouraged as an everyday, socially acceptable act. Indeed, the world it presents, where people touch themselves, not each other, and where conflicting ideas are discouraged because they just make people unhappy, seems all too contemporary. Only what is possibly the single worst special effect in film history (those laughable flying policeman on all-too visible wires), the film's one ill-judged excursion into optical effects, sticks out like a sore thumb. Despite the huge problems between Oskar Werner (who wanted to play Montag with a wink and a smile) and Truffaut (who ended the shoot directing through an intermediary, using body doubles and having to cut Werner's takes shortly before he smiled!), Montag seems a credible protagonist, an empty vessel who suddenly has his horizons violently opened. Even the accent seems strangely right: not so much the idea of a German playing a fascist book burner (indeed, Diffring's German accent is dubbed here), but the way it seems to compliment the formal language of the piece. Even Julie Christie's blandness and sporadic awkward enthusiasm work well enough in this environment for her almost to seem to give a perform for once. Throw in Bernard Herrmann's remarkably beautiful, sparingly used score, never more effective than in the final sequences that are almost magically complimented by the happy accident of a totally unexpected snowfall, and the result is a surprisingly moving piece about fundamentally shallow people. And it is a very comforting thought that, if behind every book is a man (or woman), then somewhere there is a man or woman who will keep every book alive despite all efforts to destroy it. Universal's DVD is one of the very best on the market: the audio commentary is occassionally unsatisfying, but any gaps are more than filled in by the excellent 45-minute documentary, interview with Ray Bradbury, featurette on Herrmann's score, alternate title sequence, stills and poster gallery and trailer. Highly recommended. Review: The same great movie I've always enjoyed - The picture and overall look of this print is quite good. The movie is based a a rare novel (he usually does anthologies) by Ray Bradbury, whose short story "chrysalis " is the first real thing outside of comics that I remember reading back in elementary school. This is one of his greatest works. Funny that a man who hated television has one of his greatest works on the video screen. But it's an amazing effort. And Truffaut was on his game when he directed this effort. I've heard that there is a modern version of this movie, but I won't watch it. This movie that I saw in my youth will always be the only version that is worth watching. It captures the lyrical style of Bradbury. Any other version would be like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. These modern "woke" types might think they are accomplishing something by their efforts but they are really like children Trying to destroy the work of giants that they can scarcely understand. In a way they are the anti-intellectuals that Bradbury was trying to warn us about ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000087F6L | | Actors | Anton Diffring, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Spenser, Julie Christie, Oskar Werner | | Aspect Ratio | 1.85:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | #4,405 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #43 in Military & War (Movies & TV) #59 in Science Fiction DVDs #515 in Drama DVDs | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (2,113) | | Director | Francois Truffaut | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Item model number | 2219805 | | Language | English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified | | MPAA rating | NR (Not Rated) | | Media Format | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Number of discs | 1 | | Producers | Lewis M. Allen | | Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 2.47 ounces | | Release date | January 27, 2009 | | Run time | 1 hour and 53 minutes | | Studio | Universal Pictures Home Entertainment | | Subtitles: | French, Spanish | ## Product Details - **Format:** Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen - **Genre:** Drama, Military & War, Science Fiction & Fantasy - **Initial release date:** 2009-01-27 - **Language:** English ## Images ![Fahrenheit 451 [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gdGd5KTuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Flowers of Fire *by T***R on January 6, 2006* It's curious that a director who spent so much of his early career railing against the tyranny of the literary tradition in French cinema should spend so much of his career either adapting novels or filling his films with techniques from and references to literature at every turn, so his attraction to Ray Bradbury's fable isn't that surprising. What is surprising is that in many ways it's his most purely cinematic film, discarding his usual over-reliance on voice-over to carry underwritten scenes for more purely cinematic forms of interpretation. Even the readings from the forbidden books are kept to a minimum: the obsession is in Montag's behavior, not the words he speaks. Truffaut's playfulness is all over the material, from casting an actor who forbade his children to watch TV or go to the cinema as the fire chief (Cyril Cusack in the film's standout performance) to dramatically masking off half the screen and heightening the dramatic music for what turns out to be a less than dramatic moment in a search - and that's without the inclusion of Cahiers du Cinema among the burning books or mentioning Anton Diffring's brief moment in drag. But then this is an absurdist world, where firemen slide up poles and start fires and where fascism is accepted in that way it always is when gradually introduced because of people's innate ability to adapt to their circumstances, no matter how absurd or restricting. It improves on Bradbury's novel by losing some of the more distancing sci-fi devices such as the fortune telling dog, and setting it's future in a soulless post-war New Town environment that is close enough to the real look of the time to add to the credibility. Much of what there is in the film isn't that far from reality, with plasma wall screens offering inept interactive' TV (even down to pressing the red button) becoming status symbols, and betrayal increasingly encouraged as an everyday, socially acceptable act. Indeed, the world it presents, where people touch themselves, not each other, and where conflicting ideas are discouraged because they just make people unhappy, seems all too contemporary. Only what is possibly the single worst special effect in film history (those laughable flying policeman on all-too visible wires), the film's one ill-judged excursion into optical effects, sticks out like a sore thumb. Despite the huge problems between Oskar Werner (who wanted to play Montag with a wink and a smile) and Truffaut (who ended the shoot directing through an intermediary, using body doubles and having to cut Werner's takes shortly before he smiled!), Montag seems a credible protagonist, an empty vessel who suddenly has his horizons violently opened. Even the accent seems strangely right: not so much the idea of a German playing a fascist book burner (indeed, Diffring's German accent is dubbed here), but the way it seems to compliment the formal language of the piece. Even Julie Christie's blandness and sporadic awkward enthusiasm work well enough in this environment for her almost to seem to give a perform for once. Throw in Bernard Herrmann's remarkably beautiful, sparingly used score, never more effective than in the final sequences that are almost magically complimented by the happy accident of a totally unexpected snowfall, and the result is a surprisingly moving piece about fundamentally shallow people. And it is a very comforting thought that, if behind every book is a man (or woman), then somewhere there is a man or woman who will keep every book alive despite all efforts to destroy it. Universal's DVD is one of the very best on the market: the audio commentary is occassionally unsatisfying, but any gaps are more than filled in by the excellent 45-minute documentary, interview with Ray Bradbury, featurette on Herrmann's score, alternate title sequence, stills and poster gallery and trailer. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The same great movie I've always enjoyed *by S***N on July 10, 2023* The picture and overall look of this print is quite good. The movie is based a a rare novel (he usually does anthologies) by Ray Bradbury, whose short story "chrysalis " is the first real thing outside of comics that I remember reading back in elementary school. This is one of his greatest works. Funny that a man who hated television has one of his greatest works on the video screen. But it's an amazing effort. And Truffaut was on his game when he directed this effort. I've heard that there is a modern version of this movie, but I won't watch it. This movie that I saw in my youth will always be the only version that is worth watching. It captures the lyrical style of Bradbury. Any other version would be like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. These modern "woke" types might think they are accomplishing something by their efforts but they are really like children Trying to destroy the work of giants that they can scarcely understand. In a way they are the anti-intellectuals that Bradbury was trying to warn us about ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An important classic *by T***. on June 17, 2025* An absolute classic. Rewatched recently. Never thought I would think this film would be relevant again in 2025 for so many reasons, but here we are. 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