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* RealitySubtext: The 1984 film. Creator/RichardBurton was dying during filming, and it shows. Just compare how healthy-looking he was in his first scene and how withered and tired he looked in his final scene.

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** The sudden, mid-speech shift during Hate Week from Eurasia to Eastasia being the enemy. During World War II, Orwell had to make broadcasts praising the Soviet Union, but once the transition to the Cold War started, the pro-Soviet propaganda was rapidly replaced with anti-Soviet propaganda. Orwell was very unnerved by this and implemented it via the Hate Week speech.
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The 1984 film. Creator/RichardBurton was dying during filming, and it shows. Just compare how healthy-looking he was in his first scene and how withered and tired he looked in his final scene.
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* WriteWhoYouHate: The Infamous Room 101 in the Ministry of Love is named for [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070105132434/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/room-101.shtml Room 101 in BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House]], where Creator/GeorgeOrwell had to sit through several tedious meetings.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Orwell attributed the utterly bleak atmosphere of the novel to the misery he experienced as a result of tuberculosis.
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** The impossibility of nuclear annihilation is a major plot point [[UnreliableNarrator (or perhaps not)]] as it allows the the three world powers to wage war with each other endlessly despite their semi-lobotomized state. According to Goldstein, a power would have to surround another with airbases (which is impossible) and launch volleys of nuclear bearing rockets from all side. Long range bombers made this plot point seem antiquated by 1955 and by 1965, the USSR and the USA both had wide numbers of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, achieving mutually assured destruction.

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** The impossibility of nuclear annihilation is a major plot point [[UnreliableNarrator (or perhaps not)]] as it allows the the three world powers to wage war with each other endlessly despite their semi-lobotomized state. According to Goldstein, a power would have to surround another with airbases (which is impossible) and launch volleys of nuclear bearing rockets from all side. Long range bombers made this plot point seem antiquated by 1955 and by 1965, the USSR and the USA both had wide numbers of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, achieving mutually assured destruction.
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** There was a planned feature adaptation in the 1970s, directed by Creator/NicolasRoeg, written by Paul Mayersberg, and starring Creator/DonaldSutherland as Winston and Creator/JulieChristie as Julia. It fell apart when Music/DavidBowie, who was approached to co-star and provide a score for the film, insisted on turning it into a RockOpera, at which point Orwell's widow pulled the plug.
*** According to Creator/TheCriterionCollection interview with Michael Radford, the producers of the 1984 film version at one point approached David Bowie to score the film, only for Bowie to be fired when he told his plans for "organic music" for the film rather than a rock-and-roll soundtrack the producers wanted.

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** There was a planned feature adaptation in the 1970s, directed by Creator/NicolasRoeg, written by Paul Mayersberg, and starring Creator/DonaldSutherland as Winston and Creator/JulieChristie as Julia. It fell apart when Music/DavidBowie, who was approached to co-star and provide a score for the film, insisted on turning it into a RockOpera, RockOpera for the stage, at which point Orwell's widow pulled the plug.
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plug. Bowie's ideas for the musical version would later be salvaged for his 1974 album ''Music/DiamondDogs'', which copiously references the novel.
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According to Creator/TheCriterionCollection interview with Michael Radford, the producers of the 1984 film version at one point approached David Bowie Music/DavidBowie to score the film, only for Bowie to be fired when he told his plans for "organic music" for the film rather than a the rock-and-roll soundtrack the producers wanted.

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* AuthorPhobia: The Room 101 scene was inspired by [[Creator/GeorgeOrwell Orwell’s]] personal fear of rats, and the name “Room 101” itself was inspired by a conference room where Orwell had to sit through boring meetings.

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* AuthorPhobia: The Room 101 scene was inspired by [[Creator/GeorgeOrwell Orwell’s]] Orwell's]] personal fear of rats, and the name “Room 101” "Room 101" itself was inspired by a conference room at Creator/TheBBC where Orwell had to sit through boring meetings.



* BannedInChina: Banned in the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]].
* ColbertBump: While always a popular book, it gained much recognision after the [[http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-nsa-surveillance-controversy-explained-in-five-simple-points/news-story/f5cb0fb0d8b6a80cddf71573f1878e18 NSA scandal]] in 2013, which sparked the "1984 was not an instruction manual" meme. Sales surged again after Kellyanne Conway's coining of the phrase "alternative facts" for blatant untruths.

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* BannedInChina: Banned Unsurprisingly, the book was banned in the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]].
Union]] for most of its history, resulting in smuggled copies becoming popular among dissident groups in the country. A limited edition Russian translation was given out to members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the actual year 1984, and the ban on the book was fully lifted four years later as part of UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev's policy of glastnost.
* BuryYourArt: Due to the heavy alterations it received to placate the American government, who covertly backed the film, Orwell's estate prohibited any re-releases of the 1956 film adaptation.
* ColbertBump: While always a popular book, it gained much recognision recognition after the [[http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-nsa-surveillance-controversy-explained-in-five-simple-points/news-story/f5cb0fb0d8b6a80cddf71573f1878e18 NSA scandal]] in 2013, which sparked the "1984 was not an instruction manual" meme. Sales surged again after Kellyanne Conway's coining of the phrase "alternative facts" for blatant untruths.



* DisownedAdaptation: Not necessarily Orwell, but his wife (who holds the license for adaptations and so on after his death) made no secret of her disdain towards the 1956 film adaptation. Until her death in 1980, she actively rejected most offers for adaptations.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Not necessarily Orwell, but his wife (who holds held the license for adaptations and so on after his death) made no secret of her disdain towards the 1956 film adaptation. adaptation, which was backed by the CIA and edited to fit the American government's interests. Until her death in 1980, she actively rejected most offers for adaptations.adaptations (which, among other things, resulted in Music/DavidBowie reconfiguring his planned musical adaptation into the album ''Music/DiamondDogs'').



* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The 1956 film adaptation never saw a home release, as Orwell's estate forbids any attempt for re-releases and renewal of rights (see above). A bootleg copy has been uploaded to Youtube, however, due to expiration of rights.

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The 1956 film adaptation never saw a home release, as Orwell's estate forbids any attempt for re-releases and renewal of rights (see above). A bootleg copy has been uploaded to Youtube, however, due to expiration of rights.
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** The Democratic People's Republic of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Korea]] seems to have taken many, many cues from Orwell. In a bad way. Creator/ChristopherHitchens, after his visit to North Korea, described it by saying "it was as if someone had taken ''1984'' and said 'Can you make it as much like this as possible?'" They have even gone as far as to build a giant [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel pyramid building]]. And by law, North Korean libraries may not stock books older than fifteen years -- the books must be re-edited and reprinted. Wonder where they got that idea.[[note]]The most terrifying part of all of this is that it is all plausible. There are no far-fetched [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] elements in it (well, aside from the fact that [[ScienceMarchesOn we've since learned]] that you quite simply can't [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive torture someone into believing something]], thank God), and they had 30-ish years in the book -- long enough to raise a generation who've never known anything else. Orwell lifted most of Big Brother's tactics from Stalin and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] and provided a reason (war) for otherwise rational men and women to accept the same tactics from their own government. It also happened a lot of times in the ''past'', in the form of how theocracies proclaimed themselves as infallible by an omnipotent god. Though this also provides some hope, as North Koreans flee to China all the time, and when the Soviet Union collapsed people lined up to leave, and they were also a generation — two, in fact — that knew nothing else.[[/note]]

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** [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea The Democratic People's Republic of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea of Korea]] seems to have taken many, many cues from Orwell. In a bad way. Creator/ChristopherHitchens, after his visit to North Korea, described it by saying "it was as if someone had taken ''1984'' and said 'Can you make it as much like this as possible?'" They have even gone as far as to build a giant [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel pyramid building]]. And by law, North Korean libraries may not stock books older than fifteen years -- the books must be re-edited and reprinted. Wonder where they got that idea.[[note]]The most terrifying part of all of this is that it is all plausible. There are no far-fetched [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] elements in it (well, aside from the fact that [[ScienceMarchesOn we've since learned]] that you quite simply can't [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive torture someone into believing something]], thank God), and they had 30-ish years in the book -- long enough to raise a generation who've never known anything else. Orwell lifted most of Big Brother's tactics from Stalin and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] and provided a reason (war) for otherwise rational men and women to accept the same tactics from their own government. It also happened a lot of times in the ''past'', in the form of how theocracies proclaimed themselves as infallible by an omnipotent god. Though this also provides some hope, as North Koreans flee to China all the time, and when the Soviet Union collapsed people lined up to leave, and they were also a generation — two, in fact — that knew nothing else.[[/note]]
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* [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] For:
** AirstripOne
** BigBrotherIsWatching
** BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: A take on the above.
** {{Doublethink}}
** NewSpeak
** {{Room 101}}
** {{Thoughtcrime}}
** TwoPlusTortureMakesFive: The name is a play on one of the most infamous scenes in the work, and one of the most heinous examples of the trope.
** OrwellianRetcon
** {{Unperson}}: Possibly not the first use of the term, but certainly [[TropeCodifier popularized it]].
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** A decade after the book's publication, the Sino-Soviet split resulted in the Cold War turning into a three-way struggle where the third played was China. Interestingly, the real life Sino-American rapprochement in the Seventies (USA and China finding an agreement against Soviet Union) is the opposite of the events happening in the settings' geopolitics during the course of the novel (Oceania renouncing its alliance with Eastasia, and allying with Eurasia against the former).

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** A decade after the book's publication, the Sino-Soviet split resulted in the Cold War turning into a three-way struggle where the third played player was China. Interestingly, the real life Sino-American rapprochement in the Seventies (USA and China finding an agreement against Soviet Union) is the opposite of the events happening in the settings' geopolitics during the course of the novel (Oceania renouncing its alliance with Eastasia, and allying with Eurasia against the former).
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** The impossibility of nuclear annihilation is a major plot point [[UnreliableNarrator (or perhaps not)]] as it was allows the the three wold powers to wage war with each other endlessly despite their semi-lobotomized state. According to Goldstein, a power would have to surround another with airbases (which is impossible) and launch volleys of nuclear bearing rockets from all side. Long range bombers made this plot point seem antiquated by 1955 and by 1965, the USSR and the USA both had wide numbers of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, achieving mutually assured destruction.

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** The impossibility of nuclear annihilation is a major plot point [[UnreliableNarrator (or perhaps not)]] as it was allows the the three wold world powers to wage war with each other endlessly despite their semi-lobotomized state. According to Goldstein, a power would have to surround another with airbases (which is impossible) and launch volleys of nuclear bearing rockets from all side. Long range bombers made this plot point seem antiquated by 1955 and by 1965, the USSR and the USA both had wide numbers of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, achieving mutually assured destruction.
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** The impossibility of nuclear annihilation is a major plot point [[UnreliableNarrator (or perhaps not)]] as it was allows the the three wold powers to wage war with each other endlessly despite their semi-lobotomized state. According to Goldstein, a power would have to surround another with airbases (which is impossible) and launch volleys of nuclear bearing rockets from all side. Long range bombers made this plot point seem antiquated by 1955 and by 1965, the USSR and the USA both had wide numbers of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, achieving mutually assured destruction.
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** A decade after the book's publication, the Sino-Soviet split resulted in the Cold War turning into a three-way struggle where the third played was China. Interestingly, the real life Sino-American rapprochement in the Seventies (USA and China finding an agreement against Soviet Union) is the opposite of the events happening in the settings' geopolitics during the course of the novel (Oceania renouncing its alliance with Eastasia, and allying with Eurasia against the former).
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* WorkingTitle: Orwell called it ''The Last Man in Europe'' in his early drafts. Doubles as a TheLastTitle example.
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* CreatorBacklash: Orwell wrote the book when he was ill with the TB that would eventually kill him, and in letters to friends he told them about the book he'd just finished, and made it clear that he didn't think it was very good. From a 15 Nov 1948 letter to his friend [[Literature/ADanceToTheMusicOfTime Anthony Powell]]:
-->It's awful to think I've been mucking about with this book since June of 1947, and it's a ghastly mess now, a good idea ruined, but of course I was seriously ill for 7 or 8 months of the time.
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** The Democratic People's Republic of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Korea]] seems to have taken many, many cues from Orwell. In a bad way. Creator/ChristopherHitchens, after his visit to North Korea, described it by saying "it was as if someone had taken ''1984'' and said 'Can you make it as much like this as possible?'" They have even gone as far as to build a giant [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel pyramid building]]. And by law, North Korean libraries may not stock books older than fifteen years -- the books must be re-edited and reprinted. Wonder where they got that idea.[[note]]The most terrifying part of all of this is that it is all plausible. There are no far-fetched [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] elements in it (well, aside from the fact that [[ScienceMarchesOn we've since learned]] that you quite simply can't [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive torture someone into believing something]]. thank God), and they had 30-ish years in the book -- long enough to raise a generation who've never known anything else. Orwell lifted most of Big Brother's tactics from Stalin and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] and provided a reason (war) for otherwise rational men and women to accept the same tactics from their own government. It also happened a lot of times in the ''past'', in the form of how theocracies proclaimed themselves as infallible by an omnipotent god. Though this also provides some hope, as North Koreans flee to China all the time, and when the Soviet Union collapsed people lined up to leave, and they were also a generation — two, in fact — that knew nothing else.[[/note]]

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** The Democratic People's Republic of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Korea]] seems to have taken many, many cues from Orwell. In a bad way. Creator/ChristopherHitchens, after his visit to North Korea, described it by saying "it was as if someone had taken ''1984'' and said 'Can you make it as much like this as possible?'" They have even gone as far as to build a giant [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel pyramid building]]. And by law, North Korean libraries may not stock books older than fifteen years -- the books must be re-edited and reprinted. Wonder where they got that idea.[[note]]The most terrifying part of all of this is that it is all plausible. There are no far-fetched [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] elements in it (well, aside from the fact that [[ScienceMarchesOn we've since learned]] that you quite simply can't [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive torture someone into believing something]]. something]], thank God), and they had 30-ish years in the book -- long enough to raise a generation who've never known anything else. Orwell lifted most of Big Brother's tactics from Stalin and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] and provided a reason (war) for otherwise rational men and women to accept the same tactics from their own government. It also happened a lot of times in the ''past'', in the form of how theocracies proclaimed themselves as infallible by an omnipotent god. Though this also provides some hope, as North Koreans flee to China all the time, and when the Soviet Union collapsed people lined up to leave, and they were also a generation — two, in fact — that knew nothing else.[[/note]]

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* DoingItForTheArt: According to [[WordOfGod Michael Radford]] himself, the location shooting for the 1984 film adaptation was done during the actual weeks given in Winston's diary for the events in question.



* MeaningfulReleaseDate: TheFilmOfTheBook came out in 1984.

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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: TheFilmOfTheBook came out in 1984. According to [[WordOfGod Michael Radford]] himself, the location shooting for the 1984 film adaptation was done during the actual weeks given in Winston's diary for the events in question.

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