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And if the film echoes the novel's bleakness, this is not proving to be a disadvantage at the box office. One thing the film most assuredly has in its favor, in terms of drawing an audience, is the continuing popularity of Orwell's novel - even though marketing surveys have shown that 50 percent of the movie audience for ''1984'' had not read the book before seeing the film, and that the prime audience is between 17 and 22 years old. But if that were all the film had in its favor, the whole thing would be rather sad.'' Besides, the timing thing is a nice gimmick. In the end, the right thing happened, and by the time it came out it was fresh and new again. 1, 1984, people might have been completely sick of it. ''Actually, we were afraid that if we opened too soon we might miss the boat completely,'' Mr. For another, the year 1984 began with a barrage of Orwell- related publicity that might not have helped the film at all. For one thing, they say, the film is already playing in England, France, Australia and plenty of other places the United States is one of the few countries in which it missed George Orwell's deadline. HAVING spent the last few months on tour to promote ''1984,'' John Hurt and Michael Radford, the film's star and director, have had ample opportunities to explain why it opened in the United States in 1985.
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