a clockwork orange

[la47]

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1974/nadsat.html

 

[noodnuts]

lolita is on thursday night and 2001 on sunday night, with the doco continuing next tuesday.

 

[Woodson]

Saw Clockwork a year ago and thought it had pieces that merited it's 'banned status' (for that period in time) but overall too much hype to build the movie up to be as horrific as I was expecting. Why the ban lasted ever so long has me baffled...I guess it was a great way to keep the intrigue going.

I caught Lolita and enjoyed it. I seem to appreciate those old type films.

FMJ was not as great as Saving Private Ryan IMHO.

 

[Borgsta]

saw it last night, pretty good movie. But i dont see how it is outdated? What makes it outdated and not relevant bunsen?

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by Borgsta
saw it last night, pretty good movie. But i dont see how it is outdated? What makes it outdated and not relevant bunsen?

What makes it relevant?

 

[Weaver]

Originally posted by Woodson
Saw Clockwork a year ago and thought it had pieces that merited it's 'banned status' (for that period in time) but overall too much hype to build the movie up to be as horrific as I was expecting. Why the ban lasted ever so long has me baffled...I guess it was a great way to keep the intrigue going.

The ban was instituted by the director not because the film was worthy of being banned, but because there were a series of copycat crimes.

He also got into a little bit of bother basing the movie on the US version of the book which omits the last chapter which obviously cut-up the author.

 

[The Legend]

Originally posted by bunsen burner
What makes it relevant?

I understood the main "message" to be that society generates its own ills. Totally relevant in today's world. I'll agree that the overall "appearance" of the film is dated though. A good Kubrick movie-not my favourite.

 

[Woodson]

Originally posted by Weaver
The ban was instituted by the director not because the film was worthy of being banned, but because there were a series of copycat crimes.

He also got into a little bit of bother basing the movie on the US version of the book which omits the last chapter which obviously cut-up the author.

thanx for clearing that up weaver

great motivation for the author to do the copy-cat crimes