Room 101

[Tirius9393]

Fucking pricks, do I really have to watch a t-mobile ad to watch a scene from a 40 year old movie?!

[PersonalityDeficit87]

I love the one doing the torturing. So well spoken, calm, erudite and wise. Sophisticated villain.

[Antdog5]

Everyone has their tipping point.

[pfassett]

His reaction to the rats makes me cry a little. Not afraid to admit it.

[MrBastilleDay]

@pfassett Sense offender!! He's feeling!

[danning1]

O'BRIEN: "Take him to Detroit!"

[lu4y4pants]

Squeak!

[FliPf13]

This is fucking scary..

[AnimalBK1]

Thats why you say tell them you fear naked ladies Winston! Not rats!

[kly45]

easy, just open your mouth and bite the rats in half

[DoktorAlanGrant]

Don't question my authority or put me in the box

[Frankydoesitalso]

Richard Burton is fantastic here

[Borin81]

rats stripping a baby to the bones in 5 min?

[medivalme]

@Borin81 Given enough rats, why not?

[CHRIS1974100]

one of the best scene

[theendofconfusion]

When I'm asked to mow the lawn, I say, "Do it to Julia! Not me! No! Do it to Julia!"

[joelat713]

doubleplus good this.



[cosmicrider287]

richard burton is stunning in this movie.

[killerchipmunkattack]

@cosmicrider287 that's richard burton?? Gosh i thought he looked familiar

[cosmicrider287]

@killerchipmunkattack no really.

[RedJoe10]

Where the fuck is Paul Merton and his occasionally funny jokes?

[waveali]

1 person must work for PETA. They probably protested this movie because the rats were too uncomfortable during this scene.

[Tyraxio]

@waveali Well, they probably were, stop hating bitch.

[RightWingHunter666]

Rats!!!! Yikes.... listen to that sound.

[HartlessShooter]

@sunainahussain

Uhh he wrote the book, he didn't make the movie

[StEaLtHMel0n]

@HartlessShooter Orwell made the scene in the book, and the director made a film version of his book. Please take your unintelligent comments elsewhere.

[ChipsALaChocolat]

did anyone else get the impression o'brien was making up everything about the rats that wasn't really true? or was that just my imagination?? lol

[danning1]

@ChipsALaChocolat Probably some of it is true. Rats, after all, are vile, dirty, disease-ridden creatures that have plagued mankind for centuries. Sort of like lawyers (okay, cheap joke, but don't tell me that didn't make you smile). But getting back to seriousness, does it really matter? Winston was scared shitless of rats anyway.

[ChipsALaChocolat]

@danning1 lol yeah . . . idk just a thought

[ERICREPORTS]

@danning1 Rats are one of the cleanest animals - it is the conditions they live in- conditions created by man. Rats don't attack unless provoked.

[GoldenBoyCXVII]

@ChipsALaChocolat It doesn't really matter. The Party says it's true, so O'Brien must tell Winston that it's true. By this point, Winston has already partly been converted to the mentality of doublethink, so he could believed rats were perfectly harmless, and yet he would still believe everything O'Brien told him. Of course, no one who loved someone in the way that Winston loved Julia would betray her unless he were faced with the "worst thing in the world," hence rats, Winston's worst fear.

[kitabwalli]

Not surprisingly, this film is not very reality available on DVD or very expensive. People will be inclined to conclude that 1984 isn't past, it's still on it's way.

[opgbarrera]

the guy's stomach was exploded from inside by an alien, how come he is so scared of rats now?

[pattisgirls]

@opgbarrera wasnt his stomach it was his chest, hence the name Chestburster. Just sayin :)

[sssssz]

...this is unbelievably great acting.

A full grown man crying and whimpering might seem pathetic most of the times, but I don't feel that with Winston here. I can actually share the absolute, perfect fear he's going through... And that's a true character expression.

[streetfightsecrets]

please dont make beautiful eastern european pornstars drain me of jizzz.... please no... not that...

[danning1]

@streetfightsecrets I wonder if they have a room that's the opposite of Room 101 where really good and obedient citizens get rewarded with Eastern European porn stars (or whatever else butters their bagel). Nah, probably not. More likely they'd use that as false propaganda and just when a long-suffering (but obedient) citizen thinks he's going to get laid there he gets shot and is disposed of. That's more the style of an evil totalitarian state.

[streetfightsecrets]

@danning1 ... I can here there acrylic fake nails clicking on the cage door... please don't open that door... Richard Burton gloomily intones : "first they will go for your balls, then the rimming starts, in the proletariat sectors they have been known to empty a mans entire nutsack in under 5 minutes" - I was motivated from this video to read the last 5 chapters of the book online, fuck me it was disturbing, very to the point and clinical, reminded me of "a clockwork orange"

[streetfightsecrets]

@danning1 imagine my shock when I discovered that Anthony Burgess had written an homage called "1985" - I loved "clockwork orange" , very similarly themed, but reading Orwells clinical destruction of a persons sense of self made me feel so depressed, then realising how much of what he predicted has come true (as has Burgess' 1985) I moved from depression to terror to despair... then I had a cup of tea, went to the gym, watched some porn and felt better. Porn, the new opium for proles like me.

[Purpose91]

This scene is so powerful, I can only imagine how strong the rest of the movie is.

I should make a note to see this movie

[thedarkone2134]

I'm afraid of more or less everything. I'd be screwed.

[Cereghini]

I don't mean to sound cocky here at all, but since I actually have no idea what the worst thing in the world would be for me, this wouldn't work on me. And if I were in the Ministry of Love anyway, I'd be trying day and night to commit suicide, even if that meant bashing my head against the wall for a few hours. O'Brien says that anyone who comes to the Ministry of Love never leaves it as the same person they were when they got there. In other words, they basically steal your soul. No thanks.

[42069Ganjaguru]

I'm afraid of horny women

[danning1]

@42069Ganjaguru (laughs) I don't think they'd believe you, sir. The people who run Room 101 are too smart for that "please, don't throw me into that briar patch" routine!

[Myles0Harcourt]

What would your worst fear be? Mine would be eaten by ants or boiled alive.

[alicebarrett]

nice bloke do it to julia

[drumtap2792]

Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes some vermin to bite off your head!

[waveali]

@drumtap2792 ...lmao... classic and so fitting.

[danning1]

O'BRIEN: "It goes beyond fear of pain or death, and it varies from individual to individual. In some cases room 101 may be burial alive or castration. In your case, Winston (they bring in a CD player), it is listening to Justin Bieber for hours on end.

WINSTON: "NOOOOOOOOO! ANYTHING BUT THAAAATT! I LOVE BIG BROTHER! I PROMISE I LOVE BIG BROTHER!!!"

[Phoenixmedianetwork]

@danning1 that is my pet fear lol il just shoot myself

[bigotmaster]

@danning1 sounds like guantanamo to me

[ReDhAvEn1993]

I really don't see this being scary unless you are afraid of Rats.

[TheManIsEl]

@ReDhAvEn1993 then you sir, have missed the point of room 101

[ReDhAvEn1993]

@TheManIsEl Well I understand it is your greatest fear but Winston's fear does not apply to me because you could probably just bite them or something and kill them. I guess it's pretty creepy.

[danning1]

@TheManIsEl Mine would be a room full of wasps!

[TheManIsEl]

@danning1 I'm not telling what mine is. As far as I know, those people who run room 101 don't know my greatest fear yet and I want to keep it that way!

[Pedrosdanckwardt]

@ReDhAvEn1993 Yeah, well if you see the whole picture you'll figure that rats are his biggest fear; they ate his mother and his sister for example.

[killerchipmunkattack]

@Pedrosdanckwardt Are u sure rats ate his mother and sister? That didn't happen in the book, did it happen in the movie? I didn't see the movie

[Pedrosdanckwardt]

@killerchipmunkattack Hmm ok. Well see the movie (since it's the movie we're discussing). My interpretation of whats happening to them in the movie is that they get eaten... it's a really sad scene actually.

[thx291]

That's unusual in the movies....."Do what you want to the girl but leave me alone!"

[danielodyssey]

@ROUGEBLOCK Did you watch it with your eyes closed, the sound down or your brain turned off?

[dervxerox]

Peter Cushing did it better

[edmonddantes64]

Has this movie ever been made into a musical or an opera??

Should be.

[fearoflesh1984]

the novel is much much better than any moovie

[trashboxfilms]

i havent watched the movie but read the book

in the book he is set free but what happens in the movie?

[DCH13000]

@trashboxfilms Same thing, but Winston is to be executed in the film and communicates with Julia.

[Andyyyk47]

he should open his mouth and bite down when the rats try to get in his mouth

[musictheatrelover]

@Andyyyk47 unless they were to go for the eyes first.. remember he couldn't move his head.

[mrtoontown]

Yeah I know it's not this part of the story but big whoop :S

[mrtoontown]

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

[2manybracelets]

I remember in year 7 when our english teacher told us all about this. That night, we all watched it, and were horrible shocked.

[Urdalibertine]

People are such pussies.

[cheomire]

now he is broken

[deathdealer1995]

Maybe it's because I'm not afraid of rats but I would bite them till they died.

[sunainahussain]

I feel so sorry for Winston. ;_;

[Wavedude21101]

@sunainahussain me too

[danielodyssey]

Probably one of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history.

[sunainahussain]

@danielodyssey And without any blood and gore. George Orwell is a genius.

[ROUGEBLOCK]

@danielodyssey how is this scary?

[JoeyPencils]

@ROUGEBLOCK I was scared spitless