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GIP... and a little bit of the old ultraviolence

posted by [personal profile] leoniedelt at 02:54pm on 12/02/2007 under
Its half term. We're bored. Damn stupid half term.

I watched A Clockwork Orange. (in between chores and stuff, without the pumpkin, natch.)

What the FUCK was that?!  :confused: Kubrick went waaaay wild with that one didn't he?

No wonder it was banned over here for so long, not for doctors and nurses doing a bit of the old in-out while patients moaned with pain, not for graphic violence and rape depicted on the screen, but because of the message it had about the British government and society as a whole at the time.

And milk bars.

I made an icon. Hee :D
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posted by [identity profile] lixa-turner.livejournal.com at 03:14pm on 12/02/2007
The film version is a bit... yeah. The book is farfarfar better. But I think the film was based on the American version of the book, which was a bit different to the original.
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 04:04pm on 12/02/2007
I wiki'ed after i blogged, and yes you're right, it was based on the American version which didnt contain the last chapter.

But yeah. Err.
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posted by [identity profile] theo-winterwood.livejournal.com at 04:01pm on 12/02/2007
I have yet to see that movie . . . But I've read the book at least a dozen times now. :)

(I think I'm a bit afriad to see the film, honestly, because it may not live up to expectations. And I love the book.)

And, yeah, I know Kubrick used the American edition as the basis for the film. (The difference between the two being that the American has the last chapter taken out, which is highly disappointing, I think.)

Do you recommend seeing the film?? :D
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 04:05pm on 12/02/2007
Well, if you like graphic rape, graphic ultraviolence, milkbars and brainwashing/ aversion conditioning, all set to Beethoven's ninth, then yeah. Heh.

It just ended abruptly and weirdly, that's all. I was left feeling like 'what?'
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posted by [identity profile] theo-winterwood.livejournal.com at 09:11pm on 12/02/2007
It just ended abruptly and weirdly, that's all. I was left feeling like 'what?'

I wonder if part of that could be because of Kubrick's use of the American book . . . At any rate, I think I'll probably have to watch it sometime, just out of curiosity as to how it compares to the book. :)
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 09:12pm on 12/02/2007
Well also let me say this - it was very 1971. Yes.
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posted by [identity profile] alocin42.livejournal.com at 10:44pm on 12/02/2007
I think I tried reading the book when I was at college and gave up about three pages in because it was all written in whatever the weird slang laguage was and I couldn't understand it... Must have watched the film not long after but I only remember it as being very weird. One of those films that spawned a thousand pop culture references though!
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:19am on 13/02/2007
Yes Alex and his Droogs.

Its written in 'Nadsat', a made up language to try and soften the explicit descriptions of things. 'A bit of the old in-out' is rape/sex, etc.

Weirdness indeed.
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posted by [identity profile] alawston.livejournal.com at 10:51pm on 12/02/2007
The novel is more explicit.
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posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:19am on 13/02/2007
I bet!

I dont think i want to know, though.
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