1984 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of 1984 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to 1984

[liam]

Mogens Wieth was favored to play O'Connor of the Inner Party.

[cameron]

During filming, Jan Sterling (Julia of the Outer Party) was pregnant with her son Adams Douglas, so she was given a certificate by the crew proclaiming him to be an honorary member of the cast.

[bernard]

Barry Sullivan was amongst the actors thought suitable for Winston Smith.

[tammy]

Walter Gotell (Guard) also played a different sort of guard in The Guns of Navarone (1961). He played Oberleutnant Meusel, the German who was temporarily in charge of the captured Navarone team (until the S.S. arrived).

[riley]

Debut of Barbara Keogh.

[norma]

Carol Wolveridge was paid one hundred twenty for three days' work.

[jesus]

John Blythe is often credited being in this, but he was not part of the project. He does not appear in the Robert Lennard casting papers nor was he on any shortlist for any role.

[violet]

Second-billed Michael Redgrave, who as a young man had been very left-wing, was on the list of communists and communist sympathizers that George Orwell passed on to the British government.

[morris]

Screenwriter William Templeton had also adapted George Orwell's novel for American television in 1953. However, it was generally thought that it was the sensational success of the other television version, broadcast by the BBC in Britain in 1954, that had led this project to be given the go-ahead. This movie version was generally held to be a feeble imitation, and the changed ending was much attacked.

[amber]

Nina Parry and Cheryl Molineaux were considered for the role of Selina.

[frederick]

Donald Pleasence (R. Parsons) also appeared in the 1954 television version, playing the character of Syme, which in this movie is amalgamated with that of Parsons.

[gerald]

In PR and other cast lists the character that Patrick Allen plays is listed as playing Inner Party Official, but in production paperwork, he was called Faber.

[cameron]

Sonia Orwell, widow of George Orwell, objected to the changed ending, and had this movie withdrawn from circulation.

[caroline]

For Spectre (2015): With "surveillance" acting as a major theme in Spectre (2015), the movie is kind of a "Big Brother" Bond movie, with the British Government's fictional Nine Eyes intelligence-gathering alliance (based on the real-life Five Eyes), Spectre's "Global Surveillance Initiative" world-domination scheme; MI6 watching and recording (including a telephone conversation between James Bond and Eve Moneypenny) MI6 agents; Spectre watching and recording Spectre agents (including video recording James Bond's meeting with Mr. White, the latter of whom comments that Spectre is everywhere); not surprisingly, a reference is made at one point in the movie's dialogue to George Orwell. Orwell wrote "1984" (aka Nineteen Eighty-Four) (1949) which has been filmed twice, but the title of the work is not actually specifically mentioned in Spectre (2015).

[addison]

Passed by the British Board of Film Censors with an "X" certificate on November 10, 1955 and then premiered at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on March 1, 1956 running disappointingly for only two weeks. Interestingly, this was the first of two versions that Director Michael Anderson shot, each with an entirely different ending. The Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed the London premiere and noted that the "changed ending" shows Winston Smith shouting "Down with Big Brother", whereupon he is promptly shot by the police. Julia is shot down as she approaches his dead body. In the American version (released on DVD by Orbit Media and taken from a television print from Screen Gems), Smith does exactly the opposite and ends up shouting "Long Live Big Brother," but Julia is nowhere to be seen. Comparing the two versions, the latter was closer to Orwell's original, while the original British ending was damned by The Times as an "unforgivable mistake".

[ivan]

The character played by Sir Michael Redgrave is called "O'Brien" in the original novel, but, as Edmond O'Brien was cast as Winston Smith, the name was changed to "O'Connor" for this movie.

[kenzi]

Fred Berger was amongst those thought suitable for Charrington.

[ava]

Stanley Van Beers was a possible for Parsons.