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'We are so medieval': Malcolm McDowell says A Clockwork Orange is becoming reality, 45 years…
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| Alexandra Genova
Posted on 02/02/2016 9:33:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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'We are so medieval': Malcolm McDowell says A Clockwork Orange is becoming reality, 45 years after its releaseIt would actually be worse in many respects.
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:33:52 PM PST
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:36:55 PM PST
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Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:37:44 PM PST
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Olog-hai
Loved the book.
Loved the movie.
Love McDowell. He's a great actor and always makes movies better than they otherwise would be.
I don't necessarily agree with him about our supposed "overuse" of prisons. Especially since prisons in America aren't anywhere near as medieval as they are in other places around the world, and seem to be a cakewalk in some instances.
To: Olog-hai
Remember, Brave New World and 1984 came before A Clockwork Orange. We have aspects of both of the former. Written as sci fi/horror, someone decided they'd be a good thing...
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:38:16 PM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Olog-hai
Leftism is medieval. Tearing the family apart has done incalculable damage including paving the way for youths to become criminals in massive numbers.
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:41:31 PM PST
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Crucial
(At the heart all leftidsts s the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
To: Fiddlstix
I agree with Malcolm on this issue. The film is hard to watch due to excessive violence and the character’s glee at indulging in violence, but the film does make you think about our shitty society going to hell in a handbasket.
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:42:23 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(Vote Trump)
To: Olog-hai
They were pill popping and some were dope smoking and coke snorting even in the 40s and 50s. Certainly by the 1960s there was an underculture of ne’er-do-wells engaging in petty crimes and anti-social thrills.
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:46:18 PM PST
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a fool in paradise
(Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
I saw that movie 4 or 5 times before I was 30. The last time I saw it, it turned my stomach. I didn’t even enjoy the interiors. It isn’t in our video collection.
I still enjoy the soundtrack, though. (What ever happened to Walter Carlos?)
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:46:35 PM PST
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KGeorge
To: Olog-hai
Today we have Proogs. You can see them occupying Streets, on college campuses, in small Missouri cities, filling up editorial offices and TV stations and many other places.
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02/02/2016 9:48:35 PM PST
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Rockpile
(GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
To: Olog-hai
[McDowell] told the New York Daily News: 'It's amazing how there's so many people incarcerated in America. 'We are so backward in our thinking, we are so medieval.' So what would he instead have us do with those who break the law, lock them in a room and play little of the old Ludwig Van, without the painful aversion therapy part?
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posted on
02/02/2016 9:50:07 PM PST
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Mr. Mojo
To: Olog-hai
To: KGeorge
It was meant to be disturbing so I give it a pass for that.
I loved the language. It was amazingly complex. They used the term 'horrorshow' to mean amazing. It's a great term because kids of that age would have thought 'horror shows' are amazing so it makes sense that they might use that term to designate amazing things. But also, 'horrorshow' is the bastardization of a Russian word that means amazing.
So basically a twofer. And so many other examples that prove the genius of Anthony Burgess.
To: KGeorge
I still enjoy the soundtrack, though. (What ever happened to Walter Carlos?)He became Wendy and released Switched-On Bach 2000. Magpies in the wild always remind me of "The Thieving Magpie."
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02/02/2016 10:05:25 PM PST
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Milhous
To: who_would_fardels_bear; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; ...
We do overuse use prisons, most people in prison should be shot against a wall, JMO. Too harsh?
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posted on
02/02/2016 10:12:38 PM PST
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Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Smokin' Joe
Remember, Brave New World and 1984 came before A Clockwork Orange. We have aspects of both of the former. Next up on the reality imitates art agenda...
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posted on
02/02/2016 10:17:14 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
It is where I first learned to interpret British colloquial slang.
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posted on
02/02/2016 10:20:31 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Rockpile
Today we have Proogs. You mean Droogs ?
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posted on
02/02/2016 10:21:18 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Milhous
(Seinfeld voice) Aw Nooo. Noooo. What’s WITH these people?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Magpie.
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02/02/2016 10:21:18 PM PST
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KGeorge
To: UCANSEE2
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02/02/2016 10:21:40 PM PST
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dfwgator
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