'We are so medieval': Malcolm McDowell says A Clockwork Orange is becoming reality, 45 years…

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Alexandra Genova

[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. ...

[UCANSEE2]

Sorry, I think I get it now. Proogs, as in Progressives.

Yes, it's clear as an azure lake.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Also provided the opening musical sequence in The Shining.

[dfwgator]

With ObamaCare and Death Panels, Logan’s Run.

[dfwgator]

Or “Demolition Man.”

[UCANSEE2]

Have you ever heard a hormone ?

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Hi, hi, hi Mr. Deltoid...

[Ken H]

It’s the stripey hole for them. Yes.

[PA Engineer]

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.

[Rockpile]

I hated this movie.

Whenever I think of it my trigger finger statrs tingling.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

That’s my take on it as well.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hell no

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

From being stiffed?

[WMarshal]

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

[fella]

“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.

[Arthur McGowan]

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.

[Arthur McGowan]

Some years ago, Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos.

[PhilDragoo]

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.

[PghBaldy]

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.

[pingman]

And “droog” is Russian for “friend”.

[GOPsterinMA]

I concur!

Good movie if you haven’t seen it yet.