Thursday, May 1, 2008

Amazingly, not an agenda setter for english class.

What I like about 1984 George Orwell: (so far)

Trying to get out ideas for "fun" in the book

mind you, I have only jumped around the book and read snipppets plus all that stuff I find on the internet and movies.
  • It got lifted off the whole genre of Looking-tragically-at-the-future-while-making-you-aware-of-the-present

  • Some or most of the events have happened before in human history but not with the drama.
  • Incidentally made Sci-Fi mainstream (here comes the Matrix in 1999)
  • Gave us great ideas for propaganda (or when it comes to the Mac ad, anti-propaganda propaganda!)
  • Year for a title. You don't see that much these days.
  • Delves into the political atmosphere of a darker world similar to ours.
  • Inspired a movie with the 2nd most kill counts for a lead charater (surprised Rambo wasn't on the list).
  • My 1984 edition of "1984" (that's right, I'm a balla') has Walter Cronkite doing the introduction.
  • I'm sorry. I think I need to capitalize WALTER CRONKITE to push this point to the 13% of you who actually will scream at your computer and post on the comments section, "Can I haz copies, plez?"
  • It's a satire? Really? Huh.

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