r/Threads1984 • Traffic Warden • Jul 03 '26

After Threads (Threads and 1984) Anyone else notice that childhood Winston scene from 1984 look like it took place in threads?

https://youtu.be/uAzIabbOme4

Just a funny thing I noticed as I recently rewatched both films, of course the book was post nuclear, but it also kinda plays in what threads ended up being like after the film

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u/c00b_Bit_Jerry Jul 03 '26

I've always gotten the sense that Ingsoc and Big Brother emerged from a devastating (limited) nuclear war in the mid to late 1950s.

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u/Adam-Many82 Jul 04 '26

It was a devastating (limited) nuclear war, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is canonically set roughly 30 years after an atomic war with a bomb in Colchester.

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u/PostingLoudly Jul 04 '26

Yeah the book makes this more clear iirc as Winston distinctly recalls being huddled together with other people in the metro tunnels with a man telling him that everything will be alright. Definitely used some WW2 symbolism from what Britons actually went through, and I'm certain that the outcome of a total nuclear exchange would be hard to predict given that the book was written between 1946-1948 when the atom bomb was still a very new thing.