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 ...
Movies,
with Actors.
Fantasy,,
where is Reality?
I heard. SMH (I don’t want to know how that turned out)
I have, yes.
My fav McDowell movie though is “Caligula”.
“Caligula”? Really? It’s......interesting.
“Clockwork” is good stuff.
“White Sox Seek Lefty Outfield Bat, Inquired On Andre Ethier”
No thanks.
No time for in out love, I’ve just come to read the meter.
I’ve always wondered if McDowell’s performance as Caligula was in any way influenced by John Hurt’s portrayal of the same in “I, Claudius”.
“Horrorshow” was an interesting corruption by Burgess of the Russian word “khorosho”, which means “good” or “well”.
He became Wendy Carlos and kept making music.
:-) So I hear.
I actually prefer Vangelis to Carlos- meh re Rick Wakeman, but I haven’t really heard anything beyond Switched On Bach & the Orange Soundtrack.
I guess I should look into it just so I’m not ignernt.
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