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 ...
It would actually be worse in many respects.
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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.
Leftism is medieval. Tearing the family apart has done incalculable damage including paving the way for youths to become criminals in massive numbers.
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.
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.
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?)
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.
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?
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.
He became Wendy and released Switched-On Bach 2000. Magpies in the wild always remind me of "The Thieving Magpie."
We do overuse use prisons, most people in prison should be shot against a wall, JMO. Too harsh?
Next up on the reality imitates art agenda...
It is where I first learned to interpret British colloquial slang.
You mean Droogs ?
(Seinfeld voice) Aw Nooo. Noooo. What’s WITH these people?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Magpie.
Go away. ‘Batin’
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