A Clockwork Orange - Your Opinions On It.
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As some of you may know im doing a presentation on it because it caused alot of contraversy in the media..
And for some of the research and paperwork i would like to ask you's what you thought of it..
Did you like it? was it too violent? Any of your opinions. thank you.
And for some of the research and paperwork i would like to ask you's what you thought of it..
Did you like it? was it too violent? Any of your opinions. thank you.
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I like it. I didn't think it was particularly violent, and the violence isn't gun violence so when you compare it to say "Resevoir Dogs" it's pretty mild.
There's supposedly an extra chapter in the book that gives a happier, or at least different ending. Can anybody remember?
Not really as controversial as I thought it would be, just proves how these originally shocking movies are becoming "diluted" by modern media pushing the boundries as far as is possible.
Have the book next to me, started the first chapter and the language is proving more difficult to catch a hold of in comparison to the film, have to reread a few sentences.
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I love the bit at the very start where Alex stares into the camera and the music is playing.
Oh what a tragedy, to many topless girls
Have never been able to listen to the William Tell Overture in the same way after seeing the film, though...
It's notoriety makes it special. If Kubrick hadn't put a block on it being seen legally for god knows how many years the film would have been forgotten along with many other films made in that decade.
the Anthony Burgess novel. As other writers have pointed out, Burgess' novel
depends heavily on the use of language, so it isn't really cinematic. Also,
a lot of the violence in Kubrick's film felt rather problematic, particularly
the long rape scene, where it felt voyeuristic.
I went though early teen years and pre teen years not being completely law abiding, smashing light bulbs in street lamps, and doing some vandalising, burning stuff and so on. I can even see how some worse kids might steal a car for joyriding. But harming people was a definite no and was restricted to a very few bullies who went on to get into serious trouble.
I suppose it is possible to say that the book exaggerates to make the case Burgess is arguing, but that is a very thin argument.
mean that this future Britain has come under the influence of Russia, and hence why the society there is so unpleasant (Burgess mentions in one of his writings that when he visited
Russia, he learned Moscow had a serious juvenile deliquency problem).
I doubt it. Are you saying that A Clockwork Orange would be a forgotten film and all of Stanley Kubrick's other films wouldn't be?
I think that is a very unrealistic suggestion.
The film treats you as an observer and so you don't get that intimate relationship with the characters as you do with the text.
Not my favourite Kubrick by a long shot, but it's still something extraordinary to behold. The rough, grim Britishness of it, the internal schematics, the typical visual prowess.
True, the early seventies architecture and artfulness timestamp it somewhat, but that's what art often does. For Kubrick some of it looks a little scrappy and throwaway, and there's little of the subtlety he's shown before, but these are also what makes it work.
There's still never been anything else quite like it. Viddy well indeed.
I don't think the film was ever banned in the UK I'm pretty certain that something happened and Kubrick got the film withdrawn from release here.
It's not a classic, and is over-rated by many IMO, it's saved on many fronts by a top notch performance by McDowell.
It was total crap , and still is .