Fahrenheit 451

Among the burned books you can find works of ray Bradbury — "the Martian Chronicles" and, in fact, "Fahrenheit 451".

Shooting period: January 13 — 15 April 1966.

Firefighters also harness the magazine "Cahiers du cinéma", in which he worked with Francois Truffaut. On the cover you can see the frame of the film Godard's "breathless" (1960), for which Truffaut wrote the screenplay.

The first color film by Francois Truffaut.

The first and only English-language film by Truffaut.

Truffaut is so obsessed with the idea of filming the adaptation of the novel I started to write the script, has not really mastered the English language. He later admitted that the dialogue in English seemed to him very clumsy, and more preferred version, dubbed in French.

According to producer Lewis M. Allen, Truffaut generally poorly know English, and on the set of French spoken all — even the British Julie Christie and Nicolas roeg. Allen himself knew French within the school curriculum, but editor Tom noble does not know him.

Truffaut said that wanted to make "Fahrenheit 451" because he was always fascinated by the idea to force the actors to read books right in the frame.

All the credits in the film read, not written. This is consistent with the idea of a new world, where the printed text.

Truffaut burned in the film, their favorite books. Producer wryly noted that perhaps Truffaut himself and throwing them into the fire.

In the film, Truffaut had a fight with the actor Oskar Werner, who starred in his film "Jules and Jim" (1962). They long time did not speak to each other, and Truffaut clearly not forgiven the offence, by placing a photo of Werner in the tomb for the departed in the drama "the Green room" (1978) — six years before the death of the actor.

Oskar Werner specially shorn hair, and in the finale his character appears briefly sheared, thereby compromising the integrity of the plot. Thus the Werner avenged Truffaut.

According to the producer, the lawyers offered to burn the movie only those books whose authors have long gone to the light, so as not to offend the living. Truffaut ignored the request, because he believed that burned every author should be flattered that his book was in the film.

Before Cyril Cusack got the role of captain of the fire brigade, she was invited by Laurence Olivier, Sterling Hayden and Michael Redgrave.

According to the producer, it was his idea to give both the female role Julie Christie. The idea came to him at the last moment.

The guy's role Montage was supposed to play Terrence stamp. Lewis M. Allen said that stamp turned down the role, believing that Julie Christie will outshine him.

The role Montagu also invited Paul Newman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Aznavour and Peter O'toole. Say also Montgomery Clift refused the role.

In the epigraph of the novel States that the ignition temperature of paper — "451 degrees Fahrenheit". In fact, paper burns at 450 degrees Celsius.

The first novel "451 degrees Fahrenheit" was published in Playboy magazine.

When burn books in the house Montagu, closeup burning "captain's daughter" by Alexander Pushkin.

Burning pages in one of the scenes is a page of books "No orchids for miss Blandish" by James Hadley chase, "Lolita" Nabokov, "the Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky (in English).

At the end of the film among the "living books" present the book "the Martian Chronicles" by ray Bradbury.