Sentences with phrase «dystopian novel by»

It feels both divorced from and intrinsically tied to its source material, the 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, which is maybe inevitable when bringing a decades - old work to a contemporary audience.

Their highly idiosyncratic output includes the 2012 bloody black comedy «Sightseers» and last year's «High - Rise,» based on a dystopian novel by J.G. Ballard.

Not exact matches

In Orwell's dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called «Newspeak» and «doublethink» to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false.

In each of these novels — by Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury — books become an enemy because they represent a written record of the past to a dystopian future where the past is something to forget.

It appears Shades of Grey, a beautifully written dystopian novel in which your caste is determined by which colors you can see, will be part of a series.

A long - unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still - controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe.

That's a lot of plot summary for a review, but it's all vital to understand the way that the script by Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt, from the novel by Suzanne Collins, sets up the stakes of this dystopian sequel.

Based on the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One takes place in the near - future of 2045, a dystopian...

The Scorch Trials is the continued adaptation of James Dashner's YA dystopian novel series, a series whose success was by no means shaped by The Hunger Games series.

His appearance in the 2006 film, A Scanner Darkly, based on the dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, received favorable reviews, and The Lake House, his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, did not do well at the box office.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

But his latest project, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, is produced by HBO, the cable / satellite network behind Game of Thrones.

«Ready Player One,» which is based on the novel by author Ernest Cline, is a dystopian sci - fi tale about gamers competing for control of a virtual world.

The Hunger Games is a trilogy of young adult, dystopian novels written by Suzanne Collins, a woman previously known for writing for Nickelodeon's early»90s sitcom Clarissa Explains It All.

Based on Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel which depicts a future where media is an opiate, history is outlawed and «firemen» burn books, Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Shannon.

Based on a novel by Ernest Cline and co-adapted by him too, the story unfolds in the inevitably dystopian future of 2045

Based on a novel by Ernest Cline and co-adapted by him too, the story unfolds in the inevitably dystopian future of 2045, where rubbish - strewn trailer parks are now arranged vertically and where our young hero, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)-- like so many others who live in «the Stacks» — prefers to spend his days immersed in the Oasis rather than confronting the misery of real life.

Plus, by this point, all these dystopian - future, sci - fi dramas based on Young Adult novels are -LSB-...]

Most subversive about Ramin Bahrani's remarkable adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel (previously filmed, less successfully, more than half a century ago by the French filmmaker François Truffaut) is that its oppressed state isn't dystopian but in fact a utopia that questions whether it's oppressed at all.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands By Chris Bohjalian Vintage • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780307743930 Something entirely different from the talented Bohjalian in his 16th novel: a dystopian tale about the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown.

This YA debut by Bacigalupi, a rising star in adult science fiction, presents a dystopian future like so many YA sf novels.

Deep Shadows by Vanetta Chapman, a thought - provoking near - future dystopian novel set in Texas (you can read my review here)

Fiction Affliction: Genre - Benders for December by Suzanne Johnson (Steampunk, dystopian novels etc..)

The vision of a dystopian future that has had the greatest influence over publishing in recent times came not from a novel created for young adult readers, however; it is in fact the fate suffered by the music industry in its attempts to deal with to digital disruption.

By the same token there are a lot of good novels that should be considered dystopian but aren't.

A dystopian novel must be driven by the characters reaction to living within a dystopian society.

Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian 1963 novel Cat's Cradle, which also takes place during «the end of the world», amidst Cold War paranoia, Andrea Williamson's piece draws from her own imagination, particularly fascinated by Vonnegut's description of a butterfly chair.

Among the powerful narratives it channels are George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, Philip K. Dick's alternative - reality fiction The Man in the High Castle (as well as the current award - winning Amazon TV series based on the book) and the «fake news» discussed daily by our current POTUS.

In Oceania, the dystopian society of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty - Four, a new language was created by the government to control the thinking patterns of the people.

Directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted from Ernest Cline's 2011 novel of the same name, «Ready Player One» cast two relative unknowns — Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke — in a tale about a treasure hunt in a dystopian virtual world.