Clockwork Orange
My Response
I think that Clockwork Orange is a horrible film because it has very disturbing scenes in the film which is why i think that Clockwork Orange should be banned. however i think that now days because technology has advanced Clockwork Orange is OK film to watch because Clockwork Orange is not that disturbing. in addition as the world changes the types of horror films are becoming more scary and disturbing.
- Clockwork Orange is film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 and it was made in 1971
- Clockwork Orange was written, directed and produced by Stanly Kubrick
- Clockwork Orange features very disturbing violent images based on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political and economic subjects in dystopian on future Britain
- the main character in Clockwork Orange is a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent. the characters interests include classical music (Beethoven), rape and ultra- violence
- the main character also leads a small gang of thugs and he calls his them his droogs (friend)
- Clockwork Orange soundtrack features comprising mostly classical music and Moog Synthesizer which was compositioned by Walter Carlos.
- Clockwork Orange poster was created by designer Bill Gold.
- Clockwork Orange holds the Guinness World Record for being the first in media history to use the Dolby sound system
Cast of Clockwork Orange
- Malcolm McDowell
- James Clarke
- Warren Clarke
- Michael Tarn
- Patrick Magee
- Adrienne Corri
- Michael Bates
- John Clive
- Carl Duering
- Paul Farrell
- Clive Francis
- Michael Gover
- Miriam Karlin
- Aubrey Morris
- Godfrey Quigley
- Madge Ryan
- John Savident
- Anthony Sharp
- Philip Stone
- Margaret Tyzack
- Steven Berkoff
- John J. Carney
- David Prows
British Withdrawal
- British authorities such as the BBFC which is a government body the classifies movies considered that Clockwork Orange was sexual violence extreme and the film had legal claims that the movie has inspired true copycat crimes and the press was blaming the British Film Institution
- In March 1972 a case where a fourteen year old boy was accused of manslaughter of a classmate.the courts stated that the manslaughter was referred to Clockwork Orange and that it had macabre relevance to the film.
- Clockwork Orange was also blamed by the press for a rape scene where the attackers snag "Singing in the Rain "
- In addition the director's wife Christiane Kubrick stated that the family received threats and had protesters outside their home therefore Kubrick asked Warner Brothers to withdraw the film for British distribution due to the disliking allegation that the film was responsible for copycat violence in real life
- Kubrick: "To try and fasten any responsibility on art as the cause of life seems to me to put the case the wrong way around. Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life. Furthermore, to attribute powerful suggestive qualities to a film is at odds with the scientifically accepted view that, even after deep hypnosis, in a posthypnotic state, people cannot be made to do things which are at odds with their natures."
- for 27 years it was difficult to see Clockwork Orange in UK
- however Clockwork Orange reappeared in cinemas and it was the first film to be on VHS and DVD releases after Kubrick's death
- on 4th July 2001 Clockwork Orange premiere broadcast in Sky TVs Sky Box Office and the film was shown until mid- September
- Channel 4 broad casted in 1993 Forbidden Fruit, which was a 27 minute documentary about the controversial withdrawal of Clockwork Orange in Britain
- the documentary contains footage from Clockwork Orange, where the film was banned for 27 years and it was the only time it was shown
- Clockwork Orange was not marketed as a horror film but over period of time Clockwork Orange was known as a horror film before it was seen has the worst nightmare film in century
- In UK the Daily paper Metro had a rating favourite horror films in 2010 and it was stated that the public rated The Exorcist was the most horror film and it beat Saw and Clockwork Orange
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