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#RESIST hits Broadway: ‘1984’ remake leaves audience fainting, fighting, and vomiting
Red Alert Politics ^ | 6.26.17 | Siraj Hashmi

Posted on 06/27/2017 11:06:56 AM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl

Following the election and inauguration of Donald Trump, sales of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984” skyrocketed to number one on the Amazon bestseller list. The book’s publisher, Penguin, even ordered 75,000 reprints of the book. It was only a matter of time before the Trump bump for Orwell’s book would turn into a Broadway production. However, due to its graphic portrayal of grotesque torture scenes, it’s caused audience members to faint, vomit, and even get into fistfights. In a similar fashion to the novel, the play, starring Tom Sturridge as Winston Smith and Olivia Wilde as Julia (his illegal love interest), follows the two evading the government, Big Brother, and the propaganda it uses to control the masses.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; broadway; radicalleft; winstonsmith
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1 posted on 06/27/2017 11:06:56 AM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
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A pathetic bunch of tarts.


2 posted on 06/27/2017 11:10:45 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

It amazes me that the left thinks the election of Trump is bringing us 1984, and I felt the same way because of the election of Obama.


3 posted on 06/27/2017 11:11:26 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

It’s totally lost on the leftists that this book is about them.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 11:11:48 AM PDT by henkster (Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

So Trump is reducing government regulation and backing out of AGW agreements that should have never been: and that’s boosting 1984 sales?


5 posted on 06/27/2017 11:14:50 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Another leftist propaganda movie. The useful idiots will lap it up.


6 posted on 06/27/2017 11:14:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: henkster

Ain’t irony wonderful!


7 posted on 06/27/2017 11:14:54 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

“Caused audience members to faint, vomit and even get into fistfights”

Cher is touring again?


8 posted on 06/27/2017 11:15:21 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Rosie Odonnel has a speaking part.


9 posted on 06/27/2017 11:17:20 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: henkster

Yup. How is the act of reducing big government bringing in big brother? It does not compute.


10 posted on 06/27/2017 11:17:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: henkster

You’re right!!!!

The old “1984” movies were about the leftists, too!!!!

And even this commercial is about thwarting the leftists, especially the professors that teach Frankfort School ideology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI


11 posted on 06/27/2017 11:21:04 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Big Brother. Like Obama’s use of our intelligence agencies and surveillance capabilities to stop political opposition?

I can see that making me sick or wanting to fight.


12 posted on 06/27/2017 11:21:50 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

“Fainting, fighting and vomiting”

That reminds me.....the family reunion is this weekend.


13 posted on 06/27/2017 11:23:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
The summer before my senior year in high school, the list included the novel "The Caine Mutiny." Knowing nothing about it I lay down on the couch, opened the book, and about eight hours later I realized that my eyes were burning and it was 3:00 AM. I reluctantly put it down and went to bed. The next day I finished it, overwhelmed. Some time later I saw the 1950s movie version with Humphrey Bogart. What a disappointment.

People who see a play based upon a book are bound to be disappointed.

14 posted on 06/27/2017 11:25:47 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: blueunicorn6

Hahahaha!


15 posted on 06/27/2017 11:28:57 AM PDT by aberaussie
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To: henkster
It’s totally lost on the leftists that this book is about them.

Self awareness is not a dominant trait on the left. That would be rooted in rationality instead of emotion.

16 posted on 06/27/2017 11:33:33 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: aberaussie

At the last family reunion, Uncle Bill did all three at once.


17 posted on 06/27/2017 11:36:26 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

It’s violence porn... liberals love that stuff.


18 posted on 06/27/2017 11:37:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black clitizens spend too much time worrying about what white people think. Get a life dudes.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

We avoided AmSoc last Nov. 8th.
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19 posted on 06/27/2017 11:42:58 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

The two books Hillary absolutely loved as a child were “Animal Farm” and “1984.”


20 posted on 06/27/2017 11:44:27 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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