I'm so excited! A Clockwork Orange is our monthly midnight movie selection at our favorite movie theater!
I am going to dress up as Alex!
In the Bay Area? Really? You should do some checking. Almost every town has a midnight movie somewhere. Sometimes they just aren't that great.Originally Posted by butzie
I read the book but never saw the movie. We don't have midnight movies where I live.
Here's the deal about the book in the USA. For some reason, the last chapter (making the book have a happy ending) was omitted for a long time. I picked up my Mom's copy she bought in 1980, and read it in high school. Well... for the longest time I couldn't figure out why people keep telling me, "Oh what a great story, and the ending isn't as depressing as I thought it would be."Originally Posted by Ryn
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite movies ever. I love the way Kubrick used music in his films.
The book's good too, with a little differend ending.
Wow, I didn't know that. I wonder why it was omitted, I can't think of anything offensive in it?Originally Posted by lookingglass
Here's the deal about the book in the USA. For some reason, the last chapter (making the book have a happy ending) was omitted for a long time. I picked up my Mom's copy she bought in 1980, and read it in high school. Well... for the longest time I couldn't figure out why people keep telling me, "Oh what a great story, and the ending isn't as depressing as I thought it would be."
A few years ago I realized that I had never read the last chapter, so I trudged out to a used book store, bought another copy, and reread the book. Now it makes a lot more sense.
Clockwork Orange is one of the greatest films in history. But I never heard of it as a Midnight movie like say, The Rocky Horror Picture show which I have seen at least thirty times at midnight. Surely, people do not light fires and squirt guns and dance in the aisles like with the latter?Originally Posted by lookingglass
I'm so excited! A Clockwork Orange is our monthly midnight movie selection at our favorite movie theater!
I am going to dress up as Alex!
Oh no... it's not like that. The theater we go to has a monthly selection of midnight movies. Others that I've seen: Evil Dead, Blue Velvet, and Citizen Kane.Originally Posted by Persi & Alley
Clockwork Orange is one of the greatest films in history. But I never heard of it as a Midnight movie like say, The Rocky Horror Picture show which I have seen at least thirty times at midnight. Surely, people do not light fires and squirt guns and dance in the aisles like with the latter?
Apparently, the American publisher convinced Burgess to drop that chapter. He regretted the decision later, but I agree wit the American publisher. I don't like the last original chapter much.Originally Posted by Ryn
Wow, I didn't know that. I wonder why it was omitted, I can't think of anything offensive in it?
The real ending is a lot more depressing than the short version. Becoming a another brick in the wall and all that.