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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.62,0:00:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It was a pleasure to burn.\NIt was a special pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.75,0:00:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see things eaten, to see \Nthings blackened and changed.”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.65,0:00:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fahrenheit 451 opens in a blissful blaze\N- and before long,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.84,0:00:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we learn what’s going up in flames.\NRay Bradbury’s novel imagines a world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.36,0:00:29.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where books are banned from all \Nareas of life - and possessing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.17,0:00:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let along reading them, is forbidden.\NThe protagonist, Montag, is a fireman
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.58,0:00:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responsible for destroying what remains.\NBut as his pleasure gives way to doubt,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.79,0:00:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story raises critical questions\Nof how to preserve one’s mind in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.33,0:00:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a society where free will, self-expression,\Nand curiosity are under fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.41,0:00:54.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Montag’s world, mass media\Nhas a monopoly on information,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.05,0:00:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,erasing almost all ability\Nfor independent thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.73,0:01:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the subway, ads blast out of the walls.\NAt home, Montag’s wife Mildred listens to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.24,0:01:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the radio around the clock,\Nand three of their parlor walls
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.82,0:01:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are plastered with screens.\NAt work, the smell of kerosene
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.18,0:01:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hangs over Montag’s colleagues, \Nwho smoke and set their mechanical
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.09,0:01:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hound after rats to pass the time.\NWhen the alarm sounds they surge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.13,0:01:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out in salamander-shaped vehicles,\Nsometimes to burn whole
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.02,0:01:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,libraries to the ground.\NBut as he sets tomes ablaze day
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.31,0:01:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after day like “black butterflies.”\NMontag’s mind occasionally wanders
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.12,0:01:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the contraband that\Nlies hidden in his home.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.22,0:01:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gradually, he begins to question\Nthe basis of his work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.41,0:01:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montag realizes he’s always felt uneasy -\Nbut has lacked the descriptive words
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.61,0:01:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to express his feelings in a society where\Neven uttering the phrase
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.75,0:01:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“once upon a time” can be fatal.\NFahrenheit 451 depicts a world governed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.57,0:02:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by surveillance, robotics, and virtual\Nreality - a vision that proved remarkably
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.02,0:02:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prescient, but also spoke to\Nthe concerns of the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.39,0:02:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The novel was published in 1953,\Nat the height of the Cold War.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.95,0:02:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This era kindled widespread paranoia\Nand fear throughout Bradbury’s home country
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.90,0:02:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the United States, amplified by the\Nsuppression of information
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.76,0:02:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and brutal government investigations.\NIn particular, this witch hunt mentality
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.02,0:02:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,targeted artists and writers who\Nwere suspected of Communist sympathies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.73,0:02:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bradbury was alarmed at\Nthis cultural crackdown.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.93,0:02:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He believed it set a dangerous \Nprecedent for further censorship,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.55,0:02:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was reminded of the destruction of\Nthe Library of Alexandria and the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.57,0:02:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,book-burning of Fascist regimes.\NHe explored these chilling connections
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.03,0:02:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Fahrenheit 451, titled after the\Ntemperature at which paper burns.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.22,0:02:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The accuracy of that temperature\Nhas been called into question,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.68,0:02:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that doesn’t diminish the novel’s \Nstanding as a masterpiece
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.01,0:03:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of dystopian fiction.\NDysoptian fiction as a genre amplifies
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.78,0:03:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,troubling features of the world around us\Nand imagines the consequences
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.92,0:03:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of taking them to an extreme.\NIn many dystopian stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.85,0:03:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the government imposes\Nconstrictions onto unwilling subjects.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.80,0:03:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in Fahrenheit 451, Montag learns that\Nit was the apathy of the masses that gave
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.57,0:03:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rise to the current regime.\NThe government merely capitalized on
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.45,0:03:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,short attention spans and the appetite\Nfor mindless entertainment,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.78,0:03:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reducing the circulation of ideas to ash.\NAs culture disappears,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagination and self-expression follow.\NEven the way people talk is short-circuited
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.40,0:03:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- such as when Montag’s boss Captain Beatty\Ndescribes the acceleration of mass culture:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.97,0:03:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Speed up the film, Montag, quick.\NClick? Pic? Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.23,0:03:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out,\NWhy, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.77,0:03:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!\NDigest-digests, digest-digest-digests.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.73,0:04:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Politics? One column, two sentences, a\Nheadline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.05,0:04:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this barren world, Montag learns\Nhow difficult it is to resist when there’s
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.71,0:04:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing left to hold on to.\NAltogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.68,0:04:18.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of independent thought on the brink\Nof extinction - and a parable about a
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.25,0:04:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society which is complicit\Nin its own combustion.