I saw "Clockwork Orange" many years ago - in the 60's I believe. It is weird - I need to see it again. Are copies hard to find? Oh - Dr. Strangelove - that was one cool movie - brilliant. Sellers and Scott and Pickens - Classic.
Stanley Kubrick withdrew it from the UK in the early 70s and it wasn't shown or sold legally until after his death which I think was about 1999...
No educational value? Damn! This movie is about almost 100 000 differents topics at once! It's an incredible source of reflection about prison systems, behaviorism, good and bad, violence, power, gangs, drugs, religion and other subjects... If you call it pornography, you must like and watch a very interesting and rare kind of intellectual porn! Not for children though, I agree... for the reason cited above: too deep and hard to understand and to analyse. Taking this masterpiece as an example to recreate in real life is absolutely dangerous. But still, censure is way more dangerous.
absolutely incredible but the biggest shame about the movie is that most people cant get around the storyline to realize that there is actually a moral to the story
if you would stop being a closed minded bigot and actually watch to movie for what it is maybe you would understand and realize every statement of that post is false. i understand you didnt like it and that is fine but you have no idea what good film is if you couldnt see past all the vulgar things to understand the story
i absolutely LOVE stanley kubrick. i love his movies and the way he puts everything together, i look up to him a lot when i do my work with film. the first time i saw a clockwork orange i was like twelve, thirteen so it was a bit wild to me, but i was strange && still did dig it. my mom got me the book for christmas, it's cool i like reading books and seeing the movies or vice versa.
I just love that scene where the main character (forgot his name) is forced to watch all those clips of violence and rape while they play Beethoven's 9th. I think Kubrick did say that playing opposing music to what was happening on screen had a more dramatic effect on the audience.
Pretty much my favorite movie and one of my favorite books. I cant remember exactly but it seemed like a lot of the dialogue is exactly the same as in the book and they use most of it. like word for word from the book to the movie i mean. anyway besides the rest of the Kubrick collection, with A Clockwork Orange as one of my favorites, do you guys have any other movies in mind or director's to recommend?
Nah, it was just the way you said the end part, I wanted to make sure you weren't under crediting Burgess.