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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a 1984 dystopian film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel. 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 ruled by Oceania , a totalitarian superstate ...
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951) is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. [ 1 ]
1984: Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is re-writing history, tries to rebel. He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Michael Radford
- 1985-03-22
John Hurt, with his scrawny body and lined and weary face, makes the perfect Winston Smith; and Richard Burton, looking so old and weary in this film that it is little wonder he died soon after finishing it, is the immensely cynical O’Brien, who feels close to people only while he is torturing them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote under the pen name George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
- George Orwell
- 1949
Today, Doerr has taken up this mantle, earning the nickname “Johnny Appleseed of OKRs,” introducing the philosophy to Google’s founders in 1999, and inspiring nonprofits like the Gates Foundation and schools like the Khan Lab School.
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Feb 24, 1985 · Winston Smith (John Hurt), the movie's protagonist, lives a squalid life in a grimy, greenish-gray, unrecognizable London of the future. (When the novel was published, in 1949, the year of...
