![]() ![]() ![]() The burning of books under the Nazi regime on May 10, 1933, is perhaps the most famous book burning in history. Usually carried out in a public context, the burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. It seemed like a good omen somehow, that he was watching over the shoot.Book burning has a long and dark history.īook burning refers to the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. “And it kept curling up by chance on the name ‘Bradbury’ over and over again, so we were filming his name burning one after another. “But the only time this actually happened was actually ‘Martian Chronicles.’ We were shooting a close-up of it burning and the page kept curling up, one page after the other. “Oddly, Bradbury about pages burning in a hypnotic or seductive way, how they curl up on each other,” says Bahrani. “Because if I came to your home and burned all your physical books, I’m sure you would not be happy about it, but you could just download them again from the cloud.”ĭuring one burning scene, the camera lingers on Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles,” published in 1950. “I thought it would be a chance to modernize and re-imagine it for a world that includes the Internet and technology,” says Bahrani. Rowling’s “Harry Potter.” In this version of the story, the firemen also burn music and computer servers. The close-ups of burning books include classics like Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth,” Richard Wright’s “Native Son” and even J.K. “It was an unexpected challenge because we were so busy, we ended up having to hire two new designers for the art department just so that they could focus on making all these books.” Tracking all these things down proved impossible. ![]() “We could get the rights to the books to burn them, but we could not get the rights to most of the covers, because they were very complex: There was an artist, there was a graphic designer, there was a typographer. That became a bizarre problem in pre-production,” says Bahrani. “We had to design the covers for a lot of the books ourselves. Surprisingly, the most difficult part of the burning scenes wasn’t the fire or the book selection. ‘Sadly, we had to burn several hundred books … They were real books there was no way around. If the firemen control things, they should control everything - not just books written by American men in English.” ![]() “We live in a world where people are intersecting language and cultures on a daily basis. “I grew up speaking and reading Persian before English, and I think a lot of people read and speak various languages,” he says. Jordan and Michael Shannon star as firemen who burn books in order to censor information in an American surveillance state.īahrani, who lives in Brooklyn and is Iranian-American, wanted to take care to feature books from a range of cultures. “They were real books there was no way around. “Sadly, we had to burn several hundred books,” says Ramin Bahrani, the 43-year-old writer, director and executive producer of the TV film. To make HBO’s gritty adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451,” the production team incinerated a lot of books. ![]()
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