Me and the Big Guy
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Me and the Big Guy is a 1999 short film that satires Nineteen Eighty-Four by way of lampooning the fact that Big Brother is watching everyone, even those he'd rather not.
Plot
Directed and written by Matt Nix, this short film follows the life of happy-go-lucky Citizen 43275-B (an antithesis of 1984's Winston Smith played by Mike Naughton), who despite the oppresive totalitarian regime and Thought Police looks ever forward towards returning home to tell 'the Big Guy' (played by Dan Kern) on the telescreen about his work-day.In much the same manner as an imaginary friend acts, 'the Big Guy' never responds up until he finally becomes fed up with 43275-B and declares that he does not like being called that or even 'Big Bro'. But this intervention serves only to worsen Big Brother's predicament as 43275-B goes on to "amuse" him through a variety of ways: sock puppets, Boggle, hide and go seek, &c.
As this further frustrates him, Big Brother finally announces the true nature of himself and society and shuts off the telescreen just after 43275-B tells him how much happier he was after the Revolution and Big Brother came into being. Citizen 43275-B begins to write his own guide to revolution at the end, which may imply that he is intentionally trying to otherthrow Big Brother by boring him until the telescreen was switched off.
External links
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | |
|---|---|
| By George Orwell | |
| Characters | Winston Smith | Julia | O'Brien | Big Brother | Emmanuel Goldstein |
| Places | Oceania | Eastasia | Eurasia | Airstrip One | Room 101 |
| Classes | Inner Party | Outer Party | Proles |
| Ministries | Love | Peace | Plenty | Truth |
| Concepts | Ingsoc | Newspeak | Doublethink | Goodthink | Crimestop Two plus two | Thoughtcrime | Ownlife | Prolefeed |
| Miscellaneous | Thought Police | Telescreen | Memory hole | The Book | Newspeak words |
| Other media | Film | TV programme | Opera | 1985 | Me and the Big Guy |
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