Fahrenheit 451 (1966): Talking Work

The clip talking work from Fahrenheit 451 (1966) with Oskar Werner, Julie Christie

Are you an officer?
Oh, no. Not yet.
An officer has to... I'm going to be promoted soon.
Even with my eyes closed, I could tell what you do for a job.
Because of the smell of kerosene?
Huh.
Quite a scent, isn't it?
My wife doesn't like it very much. She says it lingers.
I don't mind. I think of it as a... perfume.
Perfume?
Yes, a perfume, like any other.
I don't think I've seen your wife. What's she like?
She's rather like you, except her hair is long.
Rather like me?
Quite like you.
Tell me, that number you all wear, what's it mean?
Oh, Fahrenheit 451.
Why 451 rather than 813 or 121?
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which...
book paper catches fire and starts to burn.
I'd like to ask you something else, only I don't really dare.
Go ahead.
Is it true...
that a long time ago...
firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?
Really, your uncle is right. You are light in the head.
"Put fires out"? Who told you that?
I don't know. Someone. But is it true?
What a strange idea.
Houses have always been fireproof.
Ours isn't.
Well, then, it should be condemned one of these days.
It has to be destroyed, and you will have to move...
to a house that is fireproof.
Too bad.
Tell me, why do you burn books?
What?
Well, it's a job like any other.
Good work with lots of variety.
Monday, we burn Miller;, Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman;
Friday, Faulkner;, and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre.
"We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. "

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