Fahrenheit 451 Book Vs Movie Essay

Fahrenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. A well-known science fiction novel that teaches people to appreciate the freedom to read books. It explores the theme of having a negative dystopian society that is controlled by a ruling government and the censorship of books. Fourteen years later the book was adapted into a movie version directed by Francois Truffaut. The movie was made so that readers have a visual way to look at it rather than reading it. There were major differences in the movie which excluded important details provided by the book, concerning the characters, and the advanced technology. Even with the differences, the plot of the movie followed similarly to the plot of the book.

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Ray Bradbury and the director Francois had different ideas about what advanced technology meant. In the movie it showed one small flat screen tv that covered the wall. Meanwhile, in the book it states that Montag has three tv parlors that covered the entire wall and not just a small part of it. The most important advanced technology in the book was the mechanical hound which was half dog and half machine. The mechanical hound sensed that Montag was stealing books because every time he came to the fire station or near the dog, it would snarl and growl at him. As if the dog instinctively knew he was stealing books. The hound played an important role because he was programmed to spy on Montag and report back to Captain Beatty with the information to weather he was stealing books. However, the movie left out the Mechanical hound and replaced it with a fireman that spied on Montag and caught him stealing books. Instead, of the dog sensing that he was stealing books, the sliding pole located at the fire station began to sense that he was stealing books. The fire pole machine was programmed so that when it senses motion it is supposed to carry firefighters upstairs so that they don't have to take the stairs. When all the other fireman touched the fire pole it carried them up, but when Montag touched the pole it didn’t