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Brave New World
First Published: 1932
199 pages
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About the Made for TV Movie
Aldous Huxley´s Brave New World might well qualify as science fiction, but as a "novel of ideas" it hardly delivers the breathless, non-stop excitement of pop sci-fi adventure. The two TV films have been based on the novel -- appearing in 1980 and 1998 -- were criticized for the very problem that most challenges anyone who adapts to the screen (large or small) a great work of literature. How do you dramatize a work that is so profoundly successful on the page?
Both films tinkered a bit with Huxley´s story, getting a little lost in its details and reducing the larger, more complex ideas to simple messages. The first film, directed by Burt Brinckerhoff from an adaptation by Doran William Cannon and Robert E. Thompson, is perhaps closer to the letter of the book, with Bud Cort (Harold of Harold and Maude) as the psychologist Bernard Marx and Kristoffer Tabori as John; the cast includes Jonelle Alen, Keir Dullea and, as the World Controller Mustapha Mond, Ron O´Neal (Superfly). The second film was directed Leslie Libman from an adaptation by Dan Mazur, with Peter Gallagher as Bernard Marx and Tim Guinee as John; Leonard Nimoy was Mustapha Mond, and the cast includes Sally Kirkland and Miguel Ferrer.
The idea that Brave New World has twice been filmed as a TV movie event is deliciously ironic. Though Huxley himself was involved in a radio version of the novel in 1956, one has to wonder what he would have thought of a TV adaptation, designed to draw the highest ratings and entertain the lowest common denominator in the audience.
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