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Family

Technology

In "Pleasantville", family members love each other, and the wives are always prepared with food when their husbands come home from work.

In "Fahrenheit 451", although Mildred and Montag are married and live together, they don't love and care for each other. Couples in the book are the exact opposite to those in the film. Furthermore, in the book children are only seen as reproduction source. Parents never give particular attention to children and think they are ruinous, which is complete converse to the film.

Technology is well developed in the dystopian society of the book. There are parlor walls, ear thimbles, jet cars and other devices that are regularly used in everyday life.

In the film, the unused small TV in Bud's house shows the level of technology. Technology doesn't influence the daily lives of the people in the movie.

This implies that the more technology develops, the less happier people get. Technology reduces live communication and causes people to get depressed easily.

CONTRASTS

Preciseness/Perfection

Every action of Pleasantville residents is in order. They never deviate from their routine.

This is the exact opposite of the dystopian society in the book, where nothing is in order and everything is messy.

There are many contrasts between the film and the book as they are examples of utopia and dystopia.

Death Rates

Mirror

In the book, death and crime occur very often. This can be seen when Mildred got drug overdose. The 2 men who came to treat her said:

"We get these cases nine or ten at night. Got so many, starting a few years ago."

This shows that deep down, the society is unhappy.

While, in the film, everyone is satisfied with their lives. They always smile at each other and have respect for other people. Harmful actions, such as crime and suicide never happen.

At the end of the book, Granger says:

"Come on now, we are going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look at them."

As for the film, when the mayor turns into color, Betty gives a mirror to him to let him see himself.

In both the film and the movie, mirror is used as a tool that lets people reflect themselves to find their true inner self.

Firemen

Use of Color

In both societies, firemen don't realise their importance of their work. The job of firemen in "Fahrenheit 451" is to start fire and burn books, instead of putting out fire.

Likewise, firemen in the film only rescue cats.

One of the main contrasts between the book and the film is the use of color.

In "Pleasantville", colors are used to display change and transformation. People, at first, were all black and white, which showed the equity of the society. As they begin to experience different kinds of feelings and changes, they start to have colors. This messes up the fairness and purity of the society.

Whereas, in the book, color is used to portray different characters and their personalities. Clarisse, for instance, is described as white.

SIMILARITIES

Books

Although dystopia is the exact opposite of utopia, the book and the film share some very interesting similarities.

The society in "Pleasantville" is a good example of Utopia, while "Fahrenheit 451" is an example of Dystopian future. Although the societies have many contrasts in every area, there are also some similarities they share.

Both in the book and the film, books are not in use.

In "Fahrenheit 451", the government banned books and punished people who read them. In "Pleasantville", books are blank and no one has ever read them.

However, as books started to fill in, people began to read and enjoy them until they were burned by the citizens who thought books were creating chaos. This is similar to "Fahrenheit 451" where books are also burned.

Book people

Education

When Bud and Jennifer told people about a certain book, the blank pages of the book started to fill in. This is similar to "Fahrenheit 451" where the hobos had whole books memorised in their mind.

This implies that nothing is more powerful than the human brain. We can't remove the knowledge that has already made its way to the brain.

In both the book and the film, education is not considered to be very important in life and meaning of education is altered.

In "Pleasantville", schools teach basic and illogical things.

On the other hand, schools in "Fahrenheit 451" only teach physical education and not 'mind' education.

Therefore, the influence of education on life is low in both the book and the film.

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