A Clockwork orange

I like the film until i read the book. The ending is far better in the book. All the hype about the film didn't help either and i was a bit disappointed at first.
 
i hadn't seen it up until a couple of years ago, i like the 'oddness' of it.

never read the book though.
 
Saw this when it was banned, had a vhs tape of it when it was banned. Mind my unc did have a big video rental shop way back when you had a choice of vhs or betamax. Also saw ET ages before it was even in the cinemas.
 
I remember going to see it with my ex in a small Copenhagen art-house cinema in 91. And buying a copy on VHS which I brought back to England and lent to loads of people.

It was never banned as such. Just withdrawn by Kubrick.

So much stuff in it that's coming true now though..... even down to the return of turntables and vinyl. Even the clothes and design aren't THAT off the wall.

Agree that the book has a much better ending though.
 
Stanley Kubrik was a weard fellow. He didn't have any doors inside his house as he had a phobia of being locked in confined spaces.
 
I spent a whole day with Malcolm McDowell a couple of years ago on a presentation he was doing about Lindsey Anderson for the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Lovely man.
 
This is my favourite film of all time.

It is odd and it isnt odd but you certainly have to 'get it'. Kubrick made cinema in a way that challenged the brain i thought and made you really think about what you were watching, maybe thats the most odd bit about it? Something thats is mostly not done now. Easy to be brainless watching a film of today.

Never read the book, think im going to have to now.

What is the tenuous link?
 

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