Stallone blows some shit up, smooches Sandra Bullock, and gets on with his day. In his 1958 book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the. That it never gets around to settling the issue is perfectly in theme with Brave New World. In January 2010, another all-star cast of singers remake the song, titled We Are. Helmholtz is alienated for the opposite reason: he is too intelligent even to play the role of an Alpha Plus. Bernard is alienated because he is a misfit, too small and powerless for the position he has been conditioned to enjoy. The references to Taco Bell winning "the franchise wars" is perfectly in keeping with Brave New Worlds "After Ford" time period. Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John are alienated from the World State, each for his own reasons. If Hollywood is gonna adapt a story, is it better it attempt to wedge its own priorities - Action, movie stars, special effects - into the original story? Or to just take the themes of the novel - Is a society where everyone is happy and safe, to the detriment of creativity and free will, best for human civilisation? And what happens when you introduce a savage into that society? - And buries them beneath what Hollywood does best - a ridiculous hodge lodge of egomaniacal egos, bizarre future-tech, Sylvester Stallone compulsively knitting sweaters, and absurd action sequences?Ĭause Demolition Man does that, and shows a working utopian society where people are happy and safe, and how vulnerable they become to anything that threatens their safety. A Brave New World adaption is already quite possibly the greatest Hollywood literary adaptation ever. 'Brave New World', the 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley, told of a new world where babies were decanted as Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Epsilons, or Gammas, all designed to know their places in society, and in the case of the lower classes, decanted as multiple identical twins to staff entire factories and production lines.
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