Starring Richard Burton as

O’Brien

in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Posted by Vin on May 2nd, 2012 in Characters

O'Brien | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Richard Burton

Movie: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Year: 1984
Character: O’Brien
Actor: Richard Burton

O’Brien is a dangerous informant for ‘The Party’, who entraps Winston Smith into treasonous discussion, and then brings him in to be brainwashed under torture.

Nineteen Eighty-Four – O’Brien Quotes

O’Brien: Smith? I have been reading your Newspeak articles in the Times.

Winston Smith: Yes?

O’Brien: You write it very elegantly. That is not my own opinion – I was recently talking to a friend of yours who is an expert. His name… has slipped my memory for the moment. What I wanted to say is that there were one or two unwords, only very recent. Have you seen the 10th Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary?

Winston Smith: No… we’re still using the 9th Edition at MinRec.

O’Brien: A few advance copies have been circulated – I have one myself.
[pause]

O’Brien: You might be interested?

Winston Smith: Yes!

O’Brien: There are some plusskillful new developments. Let me give you my address.

[gives Winston a card]

O’Brien: I am usually at home in the evenings. If I am not there, then my servant will give you the Dictionary.

Winston Smith: They got you too?

O’Brien: They got me a long time ago.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother even exist?
O’Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: No, I mean… does he exist like you or me?
O’Brien: You do not exist.

O’Brien: You once asked me, Winston, what was in room 101. I think you know. Everyone does. The thing that is in room 101… is the worst thing in the world.

O’Brien: Power is not a means, it’s an end.

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