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01/19/2005 09:06:29 PM · #1 |
| A popular choice here I noticed in the Movie Challenge. I've never heard of it. Is it an old film or one maybe released in the US only...someone enlighten me ! :-) |
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01/19/2005 09:07:16 PM · #2 |
Old film, directed by Stanley Kubrick. You can look it up at
this site.
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01/19/2005 09:09:29 PM · #3 |
| I think it was a British-made film in the 1970s. Didn't find it all that entertaining myself, but it seems to have a real cult following. |
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01/19/2005 09:11:20 PM · #4 |
| Originally a book by Anthony Burgess. You think the film is weird ... |
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01/19/2005 09:11:32 PM · #5 |
I remember the first time I saw it.
I started dating this girl when i was 17. 2 weeks into the relationship, she suggested I see it. She said it was her favorite movie, and the movie itself was great.
I broke up with her after seeing the movie.
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01/19/2005 09:13:24 PM · #6 |
| thanks guys for the responses, good one vince ! :-) |
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01/19/2005 09:32:12 PM · #7 |
One of my favourite movies of all time. I still get the shivers when I hear "Singin' In The Rain"
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01/19/2005 10:16:23 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Pedro:
One of my favourite movies of all time. I still get the shivers when I hear "Singin' In The Rain" |
I'll second that ... the Movie 'Singin' In the Rain' and song from it has never been the same in my mind. I hear that song and Clockwork Orange just jumps into the head. Nothing like a little ultra-violence, and that famouse phrase "... Come get one in the yarballs ..."
OK, now I have to find my VHS Tape and VCR and watch that movie. |
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01/19/2005 10:30:58 PM · #9 |
One of my favorite movies... Nobody ever mention Mr. Deltoïd. That character is one of my favorites...
- Ah! Alex-boy! Awake at last! Yes?
-The evening's the great time. isn't it, Alex-boy!
-...and viddy films I would.
The movie is brilliant! So is the novel!
Message edited by author 2005-01-19 22:37:25.
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01/19/2005 10:41:45 PM · #10 |
I was pleasantly surprised to see so many references to Clockwork in that challenge.
Was introduced to that movie in college by a love interest.
Great soundtrack - love Kubrik and Malcolm McDowell.
"Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well."
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01/19/2005 10:43:28 PM · #11 |
| I loved the language that the author invented to make the characters unique in their dialogue |
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01/19/2005 11:36:21 PM · #12 |
i wasn't actually suprised at the number of references to clockwork orange (and there were some awesome ones)--what really surprised me was that no one did alex!
i thought about doing it--my other two movie ideas were to either do napoleon dynamite (cause there is a kid here who looks JUST like him) or to do a 'portrait' of alex. a friend i used to work with (at a bar) occasionally let me put mascara on one of his eyes, just to see if anyone would notice--or get it. not many people did, but the ones who did made it totally worth it. ah, good times. ;) |
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01/20/2005 03:05:41 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Moose101:
"... Come get one in the yarballs ..."
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That is...if you have any yarballs...
:) |
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01/20/2005 03:12:06 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by Alecia:
i wasn't actually suprised at the number of references to clockwork orange (and there were some awesome ones)--what really surprised me was that no one did alex!
i thought about doing it--my other two movie ideas were to either do napoleon dynamite (cause there is a kid here who looks JUST like him) or to do a 'portrait' of alex. a friend i used to work with (at a bar) occasionally let me put mascara on one of his eyes, just to see if anyone would notice--or get it. not many people did, but the ones who did made it totally worth it. ah, good times. ;) |
I am one of the "Clockwork Orange team", a huge fan of the moive. Making a portrait of Alex would not in my opinion meet the challenge as the photo should've been an illustration to the title, not to the movie. Besides, apparently not too many people have seen the film.
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01/20/2005 03:13:32 AM · #15 |
| I wonder how many people here will know The Goodies' spoof of A Clockwork Orange. Big Bunny. |
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01/20/2005 03:49:09 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by ltsimring:
I am one of the "Clockwork Orange team", a huge fan of the moive. Making a portrait of Alex would not in my opinion meet the challenge as the photo should've been an illustration to the title, not to the movie. Besides, apparently not too many people have seen the film. |
i think this is where we, as voters, get messed up on challenges, and why there are 45 pages per challenge in the forums on the topics, which half the people dont read anyway! because somehow the wording always seems to mean different things to different people.
i think that drew and lang have always been pretty good at telling us what we can and can't do--and when they say they don't want us to do something--it is worded as such. in this particular challenge, the only absolute they gave us was that the title of our entry must be the same as a movie. that's it.
i think it was left open in that the challenge stated that our photo didnt *have* to be related to the movie. on the other hand, if the challenge was for us to *not* refer to the actual movie, then i feel that the challenge description would have read--take a photo based purely on a title of a movie--your photograph may not represent the actual movie at all...or some such wordage.
but it didn't, and i wish that had been more clear. i was one of the ones who chose to represent the movie, and got comments saying that i didnt meet the challenge--and i heard of other people--who had photos that had nothing at all to do with the movie--were also accused of not meeting the challenge. but the truth is, as long as the title of the photo was also the title of a movie, then both options met the challenge, as far as i am concerned.
but then again, i could be wrong. :)
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01/20/2005 03:49:29 AM · #17 |
| It suffered with censors if I recall, got on the big screen, but was only shown on TV in UK within the last couple of years. |
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01/20/2005 04:14:26 AM · #18 |
Hi!
I'm another of the clockwork orange gang! The film was released in the seventies, but i remember that there was a copycat crime in the uk, then Kubrick got lots of hate-mail & death-threats etc, so HE withdrew the film in the uk. When i was at school there were always dodgy
VHS tapes of it going around! When he sadly passed away, the film went on general release again, to the cinemas and everything else. |
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01/20/2005 04:28:46 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by PeterC:
It suffered with censors if I recall, got on the big screen, but was only shown on TV in UK within the last couple of years. |
You are correct with both statements.
It was not available for over thirty years, as Kubrick banned it from being broadcast on TV, shown at the Cinema or made into video, as he was concerned about the public outrage when it was first shown.
So it was only after his death that it was allowed to be shown again...
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01/20/2005 04:35:56 AM · #20 |
Just my two cents: I absolutely love the movie -- it's of a period, yet its substance is always contemporary.
The main character's image is so iconic, too:
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01/20/2005 09:53:27 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by Artan:
It was not available for over thirty years, as Kubrick banned it from being broadcast on TV, shown at the Cinema or made into video, as he was concerned about the public outrage when it was first shown.
So it was only after his death that it was allowed to be shown again... |
That ban was just in the UK and not in the states. I have enjoyed the movie on VHS until i got the laser disk in the eighties. Since then I have bought the three editions that have been released on DVD including the last one that included a film clip of an original positive print.
I wish they would release the original X rated version instead of just the theatrical US release R. |
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01/20/2005 10:22:21 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by Artan:
It was not available for over thirty years, as Kubrick banned it from being broadcast on TV, shown at the Cinema or made into video, as he was concerned about the public outrage when it was first shown. |
I thought it was more the case that he was so annoyed by the cuts that the censors were demanding for the cinema release that he basically said "sod you lot then" and vowed not to release it in any format in the UK.
Of course, that might be an urban legend :-)
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01/20/2005 04:48:21 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Artan:
Originally posted by PeterC:
It suffered with censors if I recall, got on the big screen, but was only shown on TV in UK within the last couple of years. |
You are correct with both statements.
It was not available for over thirty years, as Kubrick banned it from being broadcast on TV, shown at the Cinema or made into video, as he was concerned about the public outrage when it was first shown.
So it was only after his death that it was allowed to be shown again... |
Wasn't that just for the U.K. tough? (nevermind that question, I got the answer!) The movie is aired in french here in Quebec quite regularly.
Message edited by author 2005-01-20 16:52:33.
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01/20/2005 08:11:21 PM · #24 |
| All this conversation has caused a little of the Ludwig van to go through me head. Ah, well ... as long as I don't meet up with any of the ultraviolence anytime soon. |
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01/20/2005 10:02:50 PM · #25 |
| Oh, by the way, anyone get the numerical reference in my name? |
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