The consequences of passivity: re-evaluating Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451.
| Publisher | Salisbury State University |
| Publication | Literature-Film Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0090-4260 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2007-07-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Evaluation | Francois Truffaut |
| Person | Works | Francois Truffaut |
| Author | n/a | Tom Whalen |
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Critical consensus regards Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (1966) a failure. Diana Holmes and Robert Ingram, for example, in their 1998 study of Truffaut, complain that the main characters are so cold "that the spectator does not really care whether or not Montag and Clarisse survive." Further, they find it "one of the least personal of Truffaut's works. [...] The rather laborious metaphor of the 'book-people,' weighs the film down and deprives it of life. Significantly perhaps, there is a marked absence of humor, or at least intended humor in Fahrenheit" (103). For Don Allen in...
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