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'We are so medieval': Malcolm McDowell says A Clockwork Orange is becoming reality, 45 years…
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Alexandra Genova

Posted on 02/02/2016 9:33:52 PM PST by Olog-hai

When dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange came out in 1962, few thought it was a plausible imagining of the future.

But, according to Malcolm McDowell, who stared in the novel's 1971 adaptation, it was in fact a chillingly accurate forecast.

Speaking to the New York Daily News, McDowell explains how the Stanley Kubrick film shows a 'world in which all older people stay indoors with televisions on'. [...]

The novel's central theme follows a group of violent 'droogs' - or gang members - who seek to illicit 'ultra-violence', mayhem and sexual depravity.

The four young men pursue their pleasures after downing drug-laced glasses of milk.

McDowell believes this was a prediction of the 'drug explosion' among the Western youth. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: aclockworkorange; clockworkorange; dystopia; liberalagenda; malcolmmcdowell; movies; nitwit; tinfoiledagain; tinfoilery
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To: Rockpile
Sorry, I think I get it now. Proogs, as in Progressives.

Yes, it's clear as an azure lake.

21 posted on 02/02/2016 10:22:35 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Milhous

Also provided the opening musical sequence in The Shining.


22 posted on 02/02/2016 10:22:43 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: UCANSEE2

With ObamaCare and Death Panels, Logan’s Run.


23 posted on 02/02/2016 10:23:07 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: UCANSEE2

Or “Demolition Man.”


24 posted on 02/02/2016 10:24:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: KGeorge

Have you ever heard a hormone ?


25 posted on 02/02/2016 10:24:28 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hi, hi, hi Mr. Deltoid...


26 posted on 02/02/2016 10:25:44 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: Mr. Mojo

It’s the stripey hole for them. Yes.


27 posted on 02/02/2016 10:28:37 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Olog-hai
McDowell explains how the Stanley Kubrick film shows a 'world in which all older people stay indoors with televisions on'.

Odd. Most older people I know have turned it off. We talk at the range.
28 posted on 02/02/2016 10:28:57 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: UCANSEE2

I hated this movie.

Whenever I think of it my trigger finger statrs tingling.


29 posted on 02/02/2016 10:39:06 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Ciexyz

That’s my take on it as well.


30 posted on 02/02/2016 11:28:29 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Impy

Hell no


31 posted on 02/02/2016 11:32:25 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: UCANSEE2

From being stiffed?


32 posted on 02/02/2016 11:35:25 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Olog-hai
This will blow your mind if the homo mafia frightens you:

The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman

33 posted on 02/02/2016 11:52:30 PM PST by WMarshal (Who in the Republican Party will be brave enough to name Obama a traitor?)
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To: UCANSEE2

“Idiocracy”, if I recall right tbe final message was that the people that shouldn’t have children are having tons of them while those who should have children aren’t.


34 posted on 02/03/2016 12:10:20 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Olog-hai
When dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange came out in 1962, few thought it was a plausible imagining of the future. But, according to Malcolm McDowell, who STARED in the novel's 1971 adaptation, it was in fact a chillingly accurate forecast. Speaking to the New York Daily News, McDowell explains how the Stanley Kubrick film shows a 'world in which all older people stay indoors with televisions on'. [...] The novel's central theme follows a group of violent 'droogs' - or gang members - who seek to ILLICIT 'ultra-violence', mayhem and sexual depravity. The four young men pursue their pleasures after...<

In the future, even newspaper reporters will be illiterate.

35 posted on 02/03/2016 12:12:59 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: KGeorge

Some years ago, Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos.


36 posted on 02/03/2016 12:13:49 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Olog-hai
Anthony Burgess spoke in my college auditorium after I'd graduated and made a lap of cities and jobs.

There were hundreds of smarmy men in intellectual glasses laughing intellectual interjections, perhaps MENsa.

Burgess quipped he'd been given six months to live and with judicious and injudicious dosages of gin and benzedrine wrote six novels and a screen play.

Clockwork Orange was a racy thing, much like a Tom Wolf slick schtick.

Overtaken by reality.

Londonistan and the recent Muslim unpleasantness.


37 posted on 02/03/2016 12:43:46 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Onambla: Marxist-Muslim crack-smoking closet queen Exp 1-20-17)
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To: Olog-hai

Book written in 1962. Already we were having problems with criminal youth. Most things went completely haywire in this country after the civil rights era. Just one factor along with entitlements from govt and “entitlements” inside minorities, divorces, drugs, contraception... ALL due to leftism run amuck.


38 posted on 02/03/2016 2:22:33 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

And “droog” is Russian for “friend”.


39 posted on 02/03/2016 3:15:05 AM PST by pingman (Cruz or lose!)
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To: Impy

I concur!

Good movie if you haven’t seen it yet.


40 posted on 02/03/2016 5:15:49 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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