Brave New World

[IndianaJones07]

I watched the Lenord Nimoy version last night and it was really, really bad...

I've been thinking for a long time that if they make this book into a larger budget film, it has Best Picture potential. If they follow they literature closely, it has many themes that stay prominent in today's society...

Anyone know the story well enough for input? Or know the jist and have a comment?

[Buck Turgidson]

It would be a great subject for a real big budget film, but there's no way we wouldn't have Akiva Goldsman write the script or have Owen Wilson or Keanu cast in it.

I rather like the '98 Nimoy-Peter Gallagher version, myself.

[IndianaJones07]

I actually noticed this while watching -- the acting was in fact very, very good.

It was the way they turned the story around that made it bad. For those who haven't read the book, the ending really makes one of the best points of the novel, and a point that many novels don't make (Explained at the bottom)...and while the happy ending was alright -- it wasn't the powerful one that the original had...

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The fact that John's rebellion ended up in him hanging himself and not making a difference really proved that the people of the Brave New World have basically been programmed and lost all human aspects to them...there truly are no heroes in the BNW...