I'd love to adapt 1984 extremely faithfully but secretly adhering to that theory that 1984 has a biased narrator, and that Oceania is actually a quite effective and benevolent socialist state especially when given the context of a recent devastating nuclear war and an ongoing three way cold-war that Oceania cannot win outright. Show Winston as the petty misogynist with SA fantasies he is in the book. Show the peaceful and comfortable living conditions of the proletariat. Make the fanatical party members cool and given them amazing uniforms like a reverse empire from Star Wars, that tricks nerds into thinking state socialism is cool.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The whole thing with the telescreens being secret cameras monitored by humans 24/7 could be reframed as Winston's paranoia. Same with every child being a communist spy.

How I'd adapt it is, I'd keep it the same except change it so that at the end, he escapes Oceania and defects to one of the other nations. Give the reveal that his account has been some sorta yeonmi-park style propaganda piece.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

The camera pans out from the end of him giving his account as a guest on a talk show, revealing it was playing on a tv in a shop window that some grubby urchins are watching through the glass

One of them turns to the others and says "gee, life might suck here, but thank god we don't live over there!"