Fahrenheit 451
What if you had no right to read?
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$1 500 000
Box office
$2 000 000
Director
Actors
Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell, Alex Scott, Gillian Aldam, Michael Balfour, Ann Bell
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Lewis M. Allen, Miriam Brickman
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Syd Cain, Tony Walton, Yvonne Blake
Audition
Editing
Short description
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
What's left behind the scenes
- Terence Stamp was originally supposed to play the role of Guy Montag. Lewis M. Allen said that Stamp turned down the role because he believed Julie Christie would overshadow him.
- Among the burnt books, one can find works by Ray Bradbury – “The Martian Chronicles” and, appropriately, “Fahrenheit 451”.
- All the captions in the film are read, not written. This fully corresponds to the idea of a new world where there is no place for printed text.
- François Truffaut's first color film.
- Before Cybill Shepherd was cast as the fire captain, Laurence Olivier, Sterling Hayden, and Michael Redgrave were considered for the role.
- During the filming, Truffaut had a falling out with actor Oskar Werner, who had previously appeared in his film 'Jules and Jim' (1962). They did not speak to each other for a long time, and Truffaut clearly did not forgive the offense, placing a photograph of Werner in a crypt for the deceased in the drama 'The Green Room' (1978) – six years before the actor’s actual death.
- Truffaut said he dreamed of filming 'Fahrenheit 451' because he was always attracted to the idea of making actors read books directly on camera.
- Filming period: January 13 – April 15, 1966.
- Paul Newman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Aznavour, and Peter O'Toole were also considered for the role of Montag. It is said that Montgomery Clift also declined the role.
- When Montag's house is burned, a close-up shows a copy of Alexander Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" burning.
- At the end of the film, Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" is among the "living books".
- The novel "Fahrenheit 451" was first published in Playboy magazine.
- According to producer Lewis M. Allen, Truffaut had a poor command of English in general, and everyone spoke French on set – even the English actors Julie Christie and Nicholas Rowe. Allen himself knew French to the extent of his school curriculum, while editor Tom Noble didn't know it at all.
- Oskar Werner specifically had his hair cut short, and in the finale his character appears with a short haircut, thereby disrupting the plot’s continuity. This was Werner’s way of getting revenge on Truffaut.
- Truffaut became so enthusiastic about the idea of filming the novel that he began writing the screenplay without having fully mastered English. He later admitted that the English dialogue seemed very awkward to him, and he preferred the version dubbed in French.
- Truffaut burned his most beloved books in the film. The producer ironically noted that Truffaut himself may have been the one throwing them into the fire.
- According to the producer, he came up with the idea to give both female roles to Julie Christie. The idea came to him at the very last moment.
- Firefighters are also burning the magazine “Cahiers du Cinéma,” where François Truffaut worked. The cover features a frame from Godard’s film “Breathless” (1960), for which Truffaut wrote the screenplay.
- Truffaut's first and only English-language film.
- The burning pages in one scene are from James Hadley Chase's "No Orchids for Miss Blandish", Nabokov's "Lolita", and Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" (in English).
- The epigraph of the novel states that the ignition temperature of paper is “451 degrees Fahrenheit.” In reality, paper burns at 450 degrees Celsius.
- According to the producer, lawyers suggested burning only books by authors who had long since passed away, so as not to offend the living. Truffaut ignored the request, believing that every author whose book was burned should be flattered that it made it into the film.
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