![]() At the age of 18, I moved to Japan in pursuit of that. I being inspired my Disney cartoons and Japanese anime, I decided I wanted to study traditional hand drawn animation. I started researching Miyazaki which led me to Disney and DreamWorks which led me to Spielberg, Fincher, Tarantino and so much more. My interest in film-making and especially animated films grew from there. A scene with an airship popped up and my dad leaned over to me and said “Imagine if you could make that.” I thought to myself “Imagine if I COULD make that.” and that’s how it all started. I remember one day he took us to see Howl’s Moving Castle. My parents are divorced and my dad would take us out to see movies on Sundays after church. I used to draw characters and comics from a very young age and would pitch them to my older brother. So I was born in Singapore and grew up in a Chinese-Indonesian household. ![]() So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today? Hi Clarisse, so excited to have you on the platform. The focus is on Montag and the way he doesn’t even show a twitch in the eye that the word means anything.Today we’d like to introduce you to Clarisse Chua. The word means nothing to Montag, which is something that Beatty explains why. Many of us flinched when watching the movie, but not Montag. While talking about “The Tales of Huckleberry Finn,” Beatty says “nigger” in passing. However, there was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in the explanation in the woman’s home–the woman who ends up burning herself. However, in the movie, it was more of a tell rather than a show. This is something from the books and it works when reading. What is annoying is the explanation in the library. It’s through the social media postings, a trip to a school, and the capture of Eels early on. By his world being opened up, we lose that secrecy from him that you get a sense of in the start of the novel.Īnd then we can’t ignore the way the world is explained to us. While he had other material in his air conditioning unit, there weren’t any books. It’s hard to see any good qualities in him until he picks up that first book, which isn’t the first book in the novel. The only people we see him closely interacting with are Beatty and Clarisse. He just doesn’t have any at all, even though there are some within the books. Meanwhile, Montag is alienated from friends. While you hope in the book that she’s going to change and show her support for her husband, it’s clear that isn’t possible it’s just not who she is. It’s hard to find a good quality to this woman. We later learn that she is the one responsible for turning Montag into the authorities when she finds out he has stashed books away. Montag in the book is an unhappily married man to a woman who has tried to kill herself in the opening of the book. Because of so many other changes, Clarisse worked well. ![]() Really, the only character that felt like he stayed the same was Beatty. Photo credit: Fahrenheit 451/HBO by Michael Gibson - Acquired via HBO Media Relations Complete change to charactersĬlarisse wasn’t the only character to change. This did, admittedly, make it harder to connect with him at first. It felt odd that we were meeting Montag in the middle of his journey of discovering books and the information they held. This part is something that works better. It’s important to see the development of who he becomes play out on screen from start to finish and that’s Clarisse’s part. We need to see him as the man his commander, Beatty, wants him to be the man he’s supposed to be in the system. It turns out in the novel that he already has a stash of books, but for the movie seeing Montag from the start is important. Rather than just suddenly disappearing, she becomes Montag’s love interest–because, what’s a movie without a love interest, right?ĭuring the movie, Clarisse is also there to expose Montag to the world of books. That’s the role she initially plays in the movie but then goes further. In the books, she’s initially only there as a way to give Montag someone to talk to someone to help him feel connected to a person. One of the good points of the movie was the change with Clarisse. Photo credit: Fahrenheit 451/HBO by Michael Gibson - Acquired via HBO Media Relations Building on Clarisse’s character
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