1984 (1956) Drama, Sciencefiction, George Orwell Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:00,839 --> 00:00:03,319 Last Sunday before the play, we gave a warning 2 00:00:03,799 --> 00:00:05,759 suggesting, perhaps, that you might not wish 3 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:08,639 some members of your family circle to watch this piece. 4 00:00:08,799 --> 00:00:11,119 So much has happened since then, so much has been written 5 00:00:11,199 --> 00:00:14,039 and so much said, there's little more I need add. 6 00:00:14,479 --> 00:00:17,319 We have heard words like "disgusting” and "immoral" used. 7 00:00:17,439 --> 00:00:20,999 Well, the play is none of these things, but it is grim, frightening 8 00:00:21,359 --> 00:00:22,479 and at times, shocking. 9 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:24,479 Shocking in the sense that we are all shocked 10 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:26,479 when we are brought face to face with a picture 11 00:00:26,559 --> 00:00:28,239 of man's inhumanity to man 12 00:00:28,319 --> 00:00:31,159 or worse, his inhumanity to the spirit of man. 13 00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:34,879 Now, tonight, I'm thinking particularly of the new viewers 14 00:00:34,959 --> 00:00:37,439 in Aberdeen whom I left early yesterday morning. 15 00:00:37,679 --> 00:00:41,879 We had planned that, on Tuesday, we should all have had the light relief 16 00:00:41,959 --> 00:00:43,999 of the witty, charming comedy 17 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,599 about Aberdeen, rehearsed and played from Aberdeen 18 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:49,879 set in the old university by the cathedral. 19 00:00:49,999 --> 00:00:53,119 That couldn't be, and so tonight, you in Aberdeen 20 00:00:53,199 --> 00:00:56,479 are seeing your first television play, and it's Nineteen Eighty-Four. 21 00:00:56,679 --> 00:00:59,359 Even for some of you, it may be the first play you've ever seen. 22 00:00:59,679 --> 00:01:01,679 Well, will you please use your judgements 23 00:01:01,759 --> 00:01:04,159 as to whether some of those sitting at home with you 24 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:06,599 should or should not see this piece. 25 00:01:06,919 --> 00:01:09,439 There's only one other thing I want to add, and that is 26 00:01:09,759 --> 00:01:11,199 as you sit there watching it 27 00:01:11,279 --> 00:01:14,159 and as the last frightening pictures fade on the screen 28 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:15,959 do remember this. 29 00:01:16,039 --> 00:01:18,399 To me, the most alarming thing in the play 30 00:01:18,479 --> 00:01:20,319 is the fact that it has no hope. 31 00:01:20,599 --> 00:01:23,799 And as the mortally ill author, George Orwell 32 00:01:24,119 --> 00:01:27,279 preciously brought his one script south from Glasgow to London 33 00:01:27,359 --> 00:01:30,359 he couldn't find it within him to give hope to the play. 34 00:01:30,559 --> 00:01:34,119 But I'm sure that he would wish us tonight, and I think this is important 35 00:01:34,479 --> 00:01:36,799 as we watch this piece and watch the end of it 36 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:39,079 find from our own resources, from our own hearts 37 00:01:39,159 --> 00:01:40,959 and our own souls and minds 38 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:44,159 that hope and belief in ourselves, in mankind 39 00:01:44,399 --> 00:01:46,079 that is not there in the play. 40 00:02:18,999 --> 00:02:23,119 This is one man's alarmed vision of the future 41 00:02:23,959 --> 00:02:28,039 a future which he felt might, with such dangerous ease 42 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:29,639 be brought about. 43 00:02:59,319 --> 00:03:00,559 Atomic war 44 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,519 famine, revolution 45 00:03:03,799 --> 00:03:05,799 the collapse of a civilisation... 46 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,839 and then, in its place, the formation of a new way of existence. 47 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:26,919 This, in 1984, is London 48 00:03:27,519 --> 00:03:29,639 chief city of Airstrip One 49 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:32,519 a province of the state of Oceania. 50 00:03:44,439 --> 00:03:46,919 KZ-6090 Smith W. 51 00:03:47,359 --> 00:03:48,959 Face the telescreen. 52 00:03:49,279 --> 00:03:51,799 You have been at the window of Bay 2 of the Records Department 53 00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:53,119 for over 80 seconds. 54 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:54,279 What are you doing there? 55 00:03:54,799 --> 00:03:57,479 I came for a replacement valve, for my speakwrite. 56 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:00,399 - Your speakwrite ceased to function? - Yes. Just now. 57 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:02,079 You should have notified the fault. 58 00:04:03,119 --> 00:04:05,335 Only a moment's work. I've found the right type of valve. 59 00:04:05,359 --> 00:04:06,439 Put it back! 60 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:09,599 You know it would have been brought to your work cubicle on request. 61 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:11,999 This irregularity has been recorded. 62 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:14,159 Return to your cubicle, Smith. 63 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:48,319 KZ-6090 Smith W, the repair to your apparatus 64 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:50,079 will be executed immediately. 65 00:05:20,039 --> 00:05:21,879 Correction required as follows. 66 00:05:21,959 --> 00:05:25,119 The Times of 17th March 1984, copy sent herewith 67 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:27,359 contains report of speech by Big Brother. 68 00:05:27,759 --> 00:05:31,879 He is alleged to have predicted that Eurasian forces would launch attack in North Africa. 69 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:34,359 Please rectify in accordance with facts. 70 00:05:37,559 --> 00:05:38,839 Good evening. 71 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:41,199 Your technical fault has been put right? 72 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:42,799 Yes, I'm able to go on now. 73 00:05:45,119 --> 00:05:48,959 "In his broadcast speech last night, Big Brother referred in confident terms" 74 00:05:49,039 --> 00:05:52,599 "to the probability of a full-scale Eurasian offensive early next month." 75 00:05:53,799 --> 00:05:57,759 "There is now no possible doubt, ' he said, 'that it will take place in North Africa." 76 00:05:58,359 --> 00:06:00,439 "Other fronts are expected to remain quiet." 77 00:06:01,479 --> 00:06:02,639 An extraordinary error. 78 00:06:02,759 --> 00:06:04,399 The speech was evidently misreported. 79 00:06:04,479 --> 00:06:07,919 Grossly misreported, since the offensive in fact came in India. 80 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:09,559 South India. Three days ago. 81 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:10,839 Exactly. 82 00:06:14,559 --> 00:06:16,279 Such a careless report... 83 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:18,559 must not exist. 84 00:06:25,879 --> 00:06:29,399 Routine correction to Times of 17th March 1984, where shown. 85 00:06:29,479 --> 00:06:32,719 Quote: In his broadcast speech last night, Big Brother referred in confident terms 86 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:36,039 to the probability of a large-scale Eurasian offensive early next month. 87 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:40,239 "There is no possible doubt," he said. "It will be launched in South India." 88 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:42,159 Other parts are expected to remain quiet. 89 00:06:42,239 --> 00:06:44,039 Reprint entire back number and file. 90 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:53,479 Stand by. 91 00:06:53,719 --> 00:06:56,519 Everyone complete what you are now doing and stand by. 92 00:06:56,719 --> 00:06:59,719 There are 45 seconds to go before the Two Minutes' Hate. 93 00:07:07,119 --> 00:07:08,959 Correction required as follows. 94 00:07:08,999 --> 00:07:11,199 The Times of 19th December 1983 95 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:14,079 contains report of statement by the Ministry of Plenty. 96 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:17,319 Refers to, quote, "categorical pledge," unquote 97 00:07:17,479 --> 00:07:20,519 of no reduction in chocolate ration during 1984. 98 00:07:20,599 --> 00:07:21,919 Please rectify. 99 00:07:22,919 --> 00:07:24,919 Thirty grams a week reduced to 20... 100 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:31,039 Routine correction to Times of 19th December 1983 where shown 101 00:07:31,119 --> 00:07:33,959 quote, a spokesman for the Ministry of Plenty stated last night 102 00:07:34,159 --> 00:07:36,335 that it will be necessary to reduce the chocolate ration 103 00:07:36,359 --> 00:07:38,359 to 20 grams in April, unquote. 104 00:07:38,439 --> 00:07:39,719 Reprint entire back number. 105 00:07:53,919 --> 00:07:55,079 Final warning. 106 00:07:55,319 --> 00:07:58,399 Stand by, comrades, for the Two Minutes' Hate. 107 00:08:35,999 --> 00:08:37,719 This is the face of our enemy. 108 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:39,359 Look at him, the Eurasian butcher 109 00:08:39,439 --> 00:08:41,759 the reveller in atrocities, the world-criminal! 110 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,175 This is the enemy our brave soldiers fight - 111 00:08:44,199 --> 00:08:46,479 In the jungles and the deserts and the polar snows. 112 00:08:46,639 --> 00:08:48,159 This is the enemy against whom 113 00:08:48,319 --> 00:08:50,159 our brave sailors man the Floating Fortresses. 114 00:08:50,319 --> 00:08:52,359 This is the enemy we can see! 115 00:08:52,439 --> 00:08:54,999 But worse than he, is the enemy within. 116 00:08:55,119 --> 00:08:56,535 The enemy of the people! 117 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:57,879 Emmanuel Goldstein! 118 00:08:57,999 --> 00:08:59,639 Traitor to the Party. 119 00:08:59,719 --> 00:09:02,359 Arch-conspirator, leader of the accursed Brotherhood! 120 00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:05,359 Director of spies and saboteurs. This is he! 121 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:07,839 For Goldstein, we can feel only one thing. 122 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:09,159 Hate! Hate! 123 00:09:09,279 -->...