Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron
#0Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 2:48pm
I saw part of the movie version of this many years ago and have been trying to figure out what the title was ever since. I just stumbled across it on IMDb and I got so excited! I just had to tell someone. So I'm telling BWW. YAY!
Has anyone else ever seen/read this?
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#1re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 3:56pmRead it in high school. It was pretty good. I remember something about a butterfly.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#2re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 6:07pmmy english teacher made us read it a few months ago in class. it freaked me out a little bit.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#3re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 10:17pmI read it.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#4re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 10:25pm
I remember very few parts of the movie, actually.
There was a chess game at one point.
I remember at one point someone said "they scrambled her eggs", meaning that they messed with a woman's brain.
And I vaguely remember Sean Astin taking over a broadcast room and telling people to take off their headband thingies.
So really, based off of this limited knowledge, it's amazing that I found the darn movie title.
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#5re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 11:11pmwe JUST read it in school... talk about coinkidink
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#6re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/21/05 at 11:35pmI read it in 6th grade. It sort of freaked me out.
#7re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/22/05 at 12:15am
I'm glad it freaked you guys out, it is supposed to. Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors, you should check out his other work. Its great really dark satire!
Bergeron is in a collection of Short Stories titled (sorry I son't know how to italxize, so I'll but book titles in caps) WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE and recommend almost all of the stories in it. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE you may have read, try BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS or MOTHER NIGHT.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#8re: Harrison Bergeron
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:46am"Harrison Bergeron" is one of the most brilliant indictments of society ever written. Vonnegut, in my opinion, is at his best when he is working with short fiction. The ending of this particular short story is one of the most poetic passages (both in language and in a symbolic content) that I have ever read.
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