Silent Hunter: I'd like to get the novel's famous opening line in here somewhere:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
movie007: Would
Crap Sack World and
Zeerust fit in here?
Kimo to movie007:
Crap Sack World? In my opinion, yeah, probably. It's obvious Airstrip One is falling apart; windows are smashed, the flat Winston resides in is specifically stated as "probably made in the last century" (or something to that effect) and the description of life in general seems to place it slightly worse (maybe on the same level) than the worst slums in America today. The only buildings that I can remember that were of pristine condition were the three Ministries.
Zeerust, however, wouldn't be as good a fit, to me. Zeerust is about (THE LINK), and while the technologies of Airstrip One that we've seen in the book may not be in independent forms, they do exist today. Take for example, the Speakwrite. From what I can ascertain, the Speakwrite is a module that
types down what you speak into it. While this machine
may not exist (I can't remember,
did they come up with a voice-to-text typewriter?), the technology and the idea behind it certainly exists within our very computers today.
Kimo to all: What would
The Picture be classified as? It was introduced relatively early on in the book, the first time Winston
went upstairs in the antique shop, but then
made a surprise re-appearance much later on,
as being revealed to have a telescreen behind it, marking Winston and Julia's capture by the Thought Police. It'd be a subtrope of
Chekhovs Gun, wouldn't it? I can't figure out which one it would be, though, none of them sound exactly like this...
Kuyan J : "with London being the capitol of the whole thing"
IIRC, it was said at one point (which would mean it might or might not be true) that there were many ministry headquarters in cities throughout Oceania, with each ran by to party members of local ancestry so that nowhere did the proles feel that they were being ruled by foreign conquerors. I will therefore change the line I've quoted.
