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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.62,0:00:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“It was a pleasure to burn.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.34,0:00:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a special pleasure\Nto see things eaten,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.14,0:00:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see things blackened and changed.”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.94,0:00:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fahrenheit 451 opens in a blissful blaze\N- and before long,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.84,0:00:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we learn what’s going up in flames.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.89,0:00:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ray Bradbury’s novel imagines a world\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.39,0:00:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where books are banned \Nfrom all areas of life -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.30,0:00:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and possessing, let alone \Nreading them, is forbidden.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.18,0:00:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The protagonist, Montag, is a fireman\Nresponsible for destroying what remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.50,0:00:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as his pleasure gives way to doubt,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.79,0:00:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story raises critical questions\Nof how to preserve one’s mind in a society
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.68,0:00:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where free will, self-expression,\Nand curiosity are under fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.88,0:00:54.05,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: 0,0:00:57.73,0:01:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the subway, ads blast out of the walls.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.17,0:01:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At home, Montag’s wife Mildred listens to\Nthe radio around the clock,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.85,0:01:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and three of their parlor walls\Nare plastered with screens.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.05,0:01:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At work, the smell of kerosene\Nhangs over Montag’s colleagues, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.24,0:01:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who smoke and set their mechanical\Nhound after rats to pass the time.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.23,0:01:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the alarm sounds they surge\Nout in salamander-shaped vehicles,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.47,0:01:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes to burn whole\Nlibraries to the ground.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.05,0:01:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as he sets tomes ablaze day\Nafter day like “black butterflies,”\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.40,0:01:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montag’s mind occasionally wanders to the\Ncontraband that lies hidden in his home.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.27,0:01:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gradually, he begins to question\Nthe basis of his work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.41,0:01:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montag realizes he’s always felt uneasy -\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.63,0:01:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but has lacked the descriptive words\Nto express his feelings in a society\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.03,0:01:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where even uttering the phrase\N“once upon a time” can be fatal.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.58,0:01:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fahrenheit 451 depicts a world governed by\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.48,0:01:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surveillance, robotics, \Nand virtual reality-
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.09,0:02:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a vision that proved remarkably prescient,\Nbut also spoke to the concerns of the time.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.39,0:02:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The novel was published in 1953,\Nat the height of the Cold War.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.35,0:02:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This era kindled widespread \Nparanoia and fear
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.84,0:02:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout Bradbury’s home \Ncountry of the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.15,0:02:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amplified by the suppression of information\Nand brutal government investigations.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.25,0:02:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In particular, this witch hunt mentality
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.90,0:02:28.73,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: 0,0:02:35.55,0:02:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was reminded of the destruction of\Nthe Library of Alexandria
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.92,0:02:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the book-burning of Fascist regimes.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.99,0:02:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He explored these chilling \Nconnections in Fahrenheit 451,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.91,0:02:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,titled after the temperature \Nat 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: 0,0:02:52.68,0:02:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that doesn’t diminish the novel’s \Nstanding
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.01,0:02:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a masterpiece of dystopian fiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.76,0:03:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dystopian fiction as a genre amplifies\Ntroubling features of the world around us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.06,0:03:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and imagines the consequences\Nof taking them to an extreme.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.14,0:03:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In many dystopian stories, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.85,0:03:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the government imposes constrictions\Nonto unwilling subjects.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.80,0:03:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in Fahrenheit 451,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.97,0:03:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Montag learns that it was\Nthe apathy of the masses
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.93,0:03:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gave rise to the current regime.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.34,0:03:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The government merely capitalized on\Nshort attention spans and
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.44,0:03:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the appetite for mindless entertainment,\Nreducing the circulation of ideas to ash.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.36,0:03:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As culture disappears,\Nimagination and self-expression follow.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.71,0:03:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the way people talk\Nis short-circuited
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.40,0:03:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- such as when Montag’s boss Captain Beatty\Ndescribes the acceleration of mass culture:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.29,0:03:47.23,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: 0,0:03:52.77,0:03:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!\NDigest-digests, digest-digest-digests.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.48,0:04:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Politics? One column, two sentences, a\Nheadline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.63,0:04:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this barren world, Montag learns\Nhow difficult it is to resist when there’s
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.58,0:04:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing left to hold on to.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.70,0:04:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait\Nof independent thought
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.01,0:04:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the brink\Nof extinction -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.43,0:04:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a parable about a\Nsociety which is complicit
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.82,0:04:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in its own combustion.