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Nineteen Eighty-Four, also known as 1984, is a 1984 dystopian drama film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell 's 1949 novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith (Hurt), a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ...
The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...
Preceded by. Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and ...
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 ( CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law ( 18 U.S.C. § 1030 ), which had been included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. [ 1] Prior to computer-specific criminal laws, computer crimes were prosecuted as mail and ...
In the year 1984, the government of Oceania, dominated by the Inner Party, uses the Newspeak language - a heavily simplified version of English - to control the speech, actions, and thought of the population, by defining "unapproved thoughts" as thoughtcrime; for such actions, the Thinkpol arrest Winston Smith, the protagonist of the story, and Julia, his lover, as enemies of the state.
Blood Simple. Blood Simple is a 1984 American independent neo-noir crime film written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh. Its plot follows a Texas bartender who is having a love affair with his boss’s wife. When his boss discovers the affair, he ...
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film written and directed by Robert Benton. [ 2][ 3] It stars Sally Field, [ 4] Lindsay Crouse, [ 4] Ed Harris, [ 4] Ray Baker, [ 4] Amy Madigan, [ 5][ 6] John Malkovich, [ 4] Danny Glover, [ 7] Jerry Haynes and Terry O'Quinn. [ 8] The film follows Edna Spalding, a young woman during the Great ...
Once Upon a Time in America. Once Upon a Time in America ( Italian: C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 epic crime film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The film is an Italian–American [ 3] venture produced by The Ladd Company, Embassy International Pictures, PSO ...