"Michael Suarez: My name is Michael Suarez. I'd like to speak on behalf of the Campion Hall Boat Club......But Yes, we finally formed a Boat Club. Only took us 400 years or so. Who knows we might have a guy in the blue boat someday. The missionary position perhaps. Bowside, number three. But not this year. So why my Boat Club. I'll tell ya. You see, it's important. I've got a £25 bet riding on an Oxford victory. I gotta make some money out of this. Yeah. So when I over the sound of laughter. Cambridge laughter, the news that the president has been thrown out of the crew because some of the guys don't like him, because he was rowing in the seat where they wanted Rick Ross to row, I wonder what's going on. This isn't how decent Americans behave. In the assessment tests so far, all of Donald MacDonald's results are up from last year. All of Rick Ross' are down. In the overall placings Macdonald finishes first. Ross Ninth.(Black: 'No, I'm sorry. Ross is a winner') Yeah, you guys keep saying that. Tell me what he's won. Not so far, not at Oxford. Again and Again Macdonald produces winning results, this commitment is total. This is a President who leads by example by being the best. And, of course, dropping Ross and keeping MacDonald does raise a problem, a conflict of interest. Is MacDonald the President favouring MacDonald the oarsmen? So it is fair that Ross and his friends should appeal the decision. Except MacDonald's decision is supported by the coaches. Should we contest their opinion as well? Would that also be fair? The rebels have pledged to abide by the coaches decisions, and now they threaten to walk out. Is that fair? And now they question the integrity and fitness as President of Donald MacDonald. How can that possibly be fair? Seems to me that if MacDonald and his coaches are to be censured, it's for putting up with Ross in the crew for so long. You and your friends have done some serious damage to this Boat Club. You are an embarrassment to your sport, to your club and to your country. I'm sure when you came here you thought how great it would be to go home with a winning oar to hang on your wall. Well I suggest you go ask Cambridge for one of theirs. Donald MacDonald is a friend of mine. That's not why I'm here tonight. Nor is it for the money from my wager although God knows I could use it.It's for something a whole lot more important. You. Us. This Boat Club. Our Boat Club. For all of us. We are here as servants to put in, not as master to take out. This race means everything to us. It has alway meant everything...to the thousands of oarsmen who have come before us. To the thousands who will follow. Let's remember them when we vote tonight. I ask you to give your total and unqualified support to our President, Donald MacDonald and his team of coaches. With them we can and, God willing, shall win."

"Rick Ross: (to Donald McDonald) Don, we have to be careful not to confuse business with friendship."

"Rick Ross: Summer? This is Oxford, it never gets hot here."

"Ruth McDonald: That schedule...what about our schedule?"

"Donald McDonald: I need good men, not simply good oarsmen."

"Jack Garnet: There's something difficult...troublesome about most talented rowers."

"Freddy Prideaux-Jones: The thing about rowing machines is, you put them on water and they tend to sink..."

"I want Cambridge to feel like they came third."

"Devastate them at the start."

"You can hear the boat sing!"

"I've also increased the gearing slightly. You may not notice, but it should give you cleaner finishes."

"Rip Torn - Dr. Nathan Bryce"

"David Bowie - Thomas Jerome Newton"

"You have to believe it to see it"

"You're only welcome if it's beneficial to us"

"You know Tommy, you're a freak. I don't mean that unkindly. I like freaks. And that's why I like you."

"Rick Riccardo - Trevor"

"Tony Mascia - Arthur"

"Bearnie Casey - Mr. Peters"

"Buck Henry - Oliver V. Farnsworth"

"We'd have probably done the same to you, if you'd come 'round our place."

"Candy Clark - Mary-Lou"

"The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything. It shows you everything about life on Earth, but the true mysteries remain. Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space."

"James Walker — Syme"

"Bob Flag — Big Brother"

"John Boswall — Emmanuel Goldstein"

"Martha Parsey — Winston's Sister"

"Corinna Seddon — Winston's Mother"

"Rupert Baderman — Winston as a Boy"

"Roger Lloyd-Pack — Waiter"

"Peter Frye — Rutherford"

"Anthony Benson — Jones"

"David Cann — Martin"

"Gregor Fisher — Parsons"

"Cyril Cusack — Charrington"

"Suzanna Hamilton — Julia"

"Richard Burton — O'Brien"

"John Hurt — Winston Smith"

""1984" the film works because it wonderfully embodies the bleakness that was the book."

"It would be hard to imagine a better dramatization of Orwell's novel than this film. It does a good job of communicating the novel's substance and spirit, and it has some compelling performances. In particular, the expressive John Hurt is riveting in the lead role. However, this is such a powerful portrayal that many viewers will ﬁnd the ultimate defeat of the individuals in the hands of the mega-state depressing, and some scenes of torture are graphic. It's not the most uplifting film, but certainly a very important one."

"In a cinema showing patriotic newsreel, anonymous, black-clad citizens rise from their seats in unison to praise their leader Big Brother. Later in the film, it is made clear that the government considers each individual to be no more than a 'cell' in the great organism of the state."

"The peculiar horror of individuality being swallowed up in some faceless social whole has been portrayed in a number of films that refer to the modern totalitarian experience, including…Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984)."

"This story is, of course, well known. 1984 must be one of the most widely read novels of our time. What is remarkable about the movie is how completely it satisfied my feelings about the book; the movie looks, feels, and almost tastes and smells like Orwell's bleak and angry vision."

"What Orwell feared, when he wrote his novel in 1948, was that Hitlerism, Stalinism, centralism, and conformity would catch hold and turn the world into a totalitarian prison camp. It is hard, looking around the globe, to say that he was altogether wrong. Michael Radford's brilliant film of Orwell's vision does a good job of finding that line between the "future" world of 1984 and the grim postwar world in which Orwell wrote."