It’s not a character that gets the first spotlight or a moment of action. “Brave New World” begins with the description of a human factory. “A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.” Print

In short, for the first time in this column’s history, this movie could actually get made as I present it.

Here’s how I’d want to see it done, and in the effort to make it as viable as possible, my dreamcasting is all also economically viable for any studio who would take the chance on this brand. With the completely average trailer for Atlas Shrugged out this week, it got me thinking about the classic philosophical novel that I identify with the most, what shaped my thinking most when I was younger, and the prospect of that novel becoming a movie. It’s unclear why a feature film has never been made of “ Brave New World.” It’s baffling actually because the material there is so rich. Huxley is what happens when society prospers beyond our wildest dreams. Orwell is what happens post-apocalyptically. I have no idea what a bumblepuppy is, but Neil Postman was right to point out that while Orwell (and especially his “1984”) cautioned against tyrannical thought-police shoving rats in our faces to get us to comply, Aldous Huxley was more concerned with a governmental structure that shoved pleasure and an overload of information and distraction in our faces to get us to comply. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.”

“Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. As the only literate Reject, it’s my duty to find the latest, the greatest and the untouched classics that would make great source material for film adaptations.

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