A Clockwork Orange

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Has anyone else seen this wonderful, yet somewhat disturbing, movie? I never read the book, so I'm sure it's better, but I must say the movie was great. I've always been a fan of psychological thrillers such as this. I'm not quite sure if it would qualify as a "psychological thriller" by today's standerds, but back in '71 it sure was. Anyway, yes, definitly one of my favorite movies of all time.
 
I very much enjoyed the book. Although, you have no idea how hard the first 10 pages is too read when they throw in all that slang. I've yet to see the movie, but I've heard it's really good.

btw, I heard its best to watch and read both. They fill in some things I guess.
 
Yeah, the Nadset slang is pretty hard to understand, even in the movie. I guess theres a book out that comes along with a glossery so you can understand it better, thats the one I'm going to try to get. I also want to know how it ends, considering the movie left out the very last chapter of the book, so it just kind of abruptly ends.
 
I book was excellent, however, I don't know if I'm going to see the movie. I'm satisfied with the book so there's really no need for me to see it anytime soon. Although, if it does fill in some things then I guess it would be worth seeing. Is the movie very faithful to the book? Aside from the true ending, of course.
 
haha. Yea, the true ending. I read the book with his foreword about how he was kind of pissed that people weren't getting the true ending cause without it he said that the story is utterly pointless.

I heard its pretty faithful, but Kubrick does tend to add some things.
 
Especially since it's so important to Alex's character. It's a shame they didn't have it for the movie.
 
I have the book somewhere and it was interesting to read. Ive seen parts of the movie cause Ive been told its tame for todays standards and most banned movies dont live up to the hype with me.
 
I never read the book but I did see part of the movie in my Honors Psychology class last semester.
 
I actually liked the ending to the movie.

For those who are interested it wasn't banned because of the controversial content which at the time of the original release it did have, it was suggested that it should be withdrawn because of threats towards Kubrick and his family.
 
Scrutator said:
I actually liked the ending to the movie.

For those who are interested it wasn't banned because of the controversial content which at the time of the original release it did have, it was suggested that it should be withdrawn because of threats towards Kubrick and his family.
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It was banned in the UK because of the sexual content and the copycat behaviour it created. However Kubrick did ask for it to be banned in the UK after a rape of a woman and beating of a tramp. Had to write about banned movies for college and this was one of them.

But the other reason as you said was because of Kubrick and his family.
 
The movie at first was only shown in one cinema for a year before having a country-wide release, then it was blamed for every act of violence during that period and was taken away but the truth of the reason why was never known until recently.

He was threatened because of the violence and stuff within the movie but it wasn't til after he was actually threatened that he asked it to be pulled. This was said in a documentary by is wife who said:

 "the reason the film was withdrawn was because we got so many threats that the police said we must do something and he withdrew it. [He was] both artistically hurt and also scared. He didn't want to be misunderstood and misinterpreted and you don't like to get death threats for you family."

 
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