Statue of George Orwell a sculptural group in Sheffield. Statue of George Orwell A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with Orwell's words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear", from an unused preface to "Animal Farm". The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, said of Orwell and the statue that "He reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" on a room
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) same year. An epigraph in the closing credits claims that the "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was shot during the very months and in the very locales when and where Orwell's novel was set. Upon its U.S. premiere, Vincent Canby said the film was "admirable, bleakly beautiful", though "not an easy film to watch". Roger Ebert awarded the film 3.5/4 stars, writing that it "penetrates much more deeply into the novel's heart of darkness" than previous adaptations, and describing Hurt as "the perfect Winston Smith." Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 80% "fresh" rating, based on 21 reviews, with an