Fahrenheit 451

Movie 2635.

I can't really remember the details of the book well enough to say how closely the movie follows it, but it seemed fairly close. I'd make a terrible book person. The firepole probably wasn't quite the same. That was silly. I also pictured something even more nondescript as his house. Pretty much plain white walls.

The movie was clearly a mistake. It never really became anything other than an excuse for namedropping and very stilted acting (admittedly, some of it was because of Truffaut's dialogue, and we can't really blame him as he learned that he should stick to writing in French). Both of which are a point of the book as well, but that doesn't really mean that a movie should be made of it.

Speaking of which, there's a remake of it. Sometimes just looking for a movie on the IMDB is enough to make you depressed. How, exactly, do you improve on a novel with one idea? As important as most sci-fi can be, and as interesting, it's a rare story that has more than one "ooh, that's an interesting idea" story thread in it. This was stretched out.