Reception for the film version of Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man was also not favorable. While many critics didn’t quite understand the point the film was trying to make, it still managed to get a Hugo nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation. The film featured Julie Christie and Oskar Werner as main character Montag, a ‘fireman’ who goes from happily doing his duty and burning books, to reading one of those books and having a whole new world opened up to him. This classic science fiction novel about a future where humanity has given up deep thinking for lives of leisure and pleasure under a government that is happy to keep them indolent and docile became the first color film and only English-language film from French director Francois Truffaut. One of the most famous Bradbury novels to transcend its original format and get the film treatment was Fahrenheit 451.
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