Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165861189
Format: PAL
Label: Universal Pictures UK
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures UK
Release Date: February 28, 2000
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Theatrical Release Date: April 19, 1998

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Rating: - Brave different (movie) world
Leslie Libman and Larry Williams' movie "Brave New World", which was originally written by Aldous Huxley, is about a "savage" named John in a utopian society in which mankind seems to live without any problems or issues. John is thrown in to that lifestyle but starts questioning it, not feeling comfortable with the idea of designing humans, not being in love with one another or taking free drugs so no one starts questioning things.

The directors did not leave the story unedited. A good ... Read More

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Rating: - An edited version of the vision.
The ideas of the book are portrayed in a edited version of Huxley's vision. This fact does not detract from the quality of the film. Yes, many things are missing in the film that were contained in the book. No Boskanovification proceses or results have been portrayed, the DHC does not conduct the tour to students (Lenina does), and the ending is not as the book (John does not whip himself or Lenina, doesn't commit suicide, no orgy-porgy: none of the sacrifices or martrydom John hinted at while still ... Read More

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Rating: - Updated is O.K. but lost some of the sting
This animal is not available in the U.S. however it does occasionally make late night TV.
Update classics as Shakespeare and you distort the feel along with the message. It was written for a period and the more you deviate the more you lose the point let alone the ambiance. Update "Brave New World" and you threaten to do the same. However the use of today's technology and making the primitives just unruly people (shades of Login's Run) did not actually distract that much and may even have been the ... Read More

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Rating: - A supreme adoption of a fascinating book
"Brave New World", one of the most popular books to be read in school today, shows a dystopia, in which the idea of artificial happiness and total control is carried to an horrifying end. The adaptation we have here now refuses to just visualize the text, it rather puts the idea into an even more modern dress, which makes Huxley's ideas appear to be closer to us than they are in the book. Just to give an example, we see that what is the "savage reservation" in the book, an area with uncivilized, dirty ... Read More

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Rating: - An extremely disappointing video adaptation
Many teachers of English around the world love Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD - but most of them will surely be very disappointed when the watch this video adaptation. The makers of this film not only left out many of the author's original ideas, but they also changed much the setting, the plot, most characters and the (unhappy) ending. Many fascinating aspects from the original novel, such as the Bokanovski-Groups, which would have been a challenge to a good movie-maker at the age of computer-aided morphing, ... Read More

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