Beatty

Some people don't like the fact that Bradbury pulled something of a George Lucas move by changing a lot of what made the book so interesting with more '80s appropriate sentiment, but this is oddly on par with Bradbury.

Years after he did Fahrenheit 451, he wrote a stage play in the '80s and added a highly debated scene that Bradbury acolytes like myself argue over, where the main antagonist, Captain Beatty, reveals to Guy Montag that his apartment is filled to the ceiling with books.

Uh, quote, "All this knowledge and stories at my fingertips, but never been spoken aloud or read."

So he likes to revise his own work, I guess.

As culture disappears, imagination and self-expression follow.

Even the way people talk is short-circuited, such as when Montag's boss, Captain Beatty, describes the acceleration of mass culture.

Speed up the film, Montag.

Quick.