TIME TV Critic: HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 Extinguishes What Made the Book Great
May 18, 2018, 08:51 PM
"This is all you need to know. Anything else will make you sick. Crazy." So says Michael Shannon, playing a captain of a brigade of "firemen" in HBO's new film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451. He shows a group of schoolchildren emojified editions of the Bible, To the Lighthouse and Moby-Dick, text-length communiqués studded with pictorial symbols.
Ray Bradbury foresaw a great deal, but he couldn't have predicted the emoji era.