Posted on 04/16/2020 8:09:37 AM PDT by C19fan
Brave New World is an adaptation of the classic Aldous Huxley novel and will broadcast on NBC's streaming service, Peacock which launched in the US this week.
The dystopian story is centred around the futuristic New London where people are sorted into an intelligence based hierachy. Demi, 57, plays Linda who moved from New London to an outlying reservation with her son John. Peace has been achieved in the seemingly utopian New London thanks to prohibiting monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself. Other cast members include Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo), and The Originals' Joseph Morgan.
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“We’re not too stupid
And we’re not to bright
To be a Gamma
Is to be just right”
Great little scene near the beginning (BBC) showing how people were happy in their assigned slot.
Had a great conversation with a liberal about the book some years back. He thought that society was a great idea. I asked him where he would be in the hierarchy. He said, “Alpha, of course!”
I asked him, “What if some other Alphas determined that you would be an Epsilon?” Deer in headlights. Welcome to the real world.
“We’re not too stupid
And we’re not to bright
To be a Gamma
Is to be just right”
Great little scene near the beginning (BBC) showing how people were happy in their assigned slot.
Had a great conversation with a liberal about the book some years back. He thought that society was a great idea. I asked him where he would be in the hierarchy. He said, “Alpha, of course!”
I asked him, “What if some other Alphas determined that you would be an Epsilon?” Deer in headlights. Welcome to the real world.
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Linda did not move to the reservation, she was abandoned there by her boss on an excursion. When given the opportunity to return to “civilization” she does and promptly O.D.’s.
Thanks, its been 43 years since I read it last
I thought this BBC rendering of the novel was excellent!
Demolition Man was a well done humorous take on Brave New World. The inferences probably went over many people’s heads.
The Dennis Leary rant was one for the ages:
You got that right. See, according to Cocteau’s plan, I’m the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind if guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death.
Yes. It stunk.
Ian Holm (the Android crewman in Alien and Bilbo Baggins in LOTR), Bob Hoskins, Robert De Niro, and a few others all have small roles. It's about a grossly oppressive and dystopian Fedora and Suit society where the main character craves freedom and the revolutionary girl of his dreams.
Demi Moore is all wrinkled now. Too much plastic and botox.
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