A Clockwork Orange

[Snowball]

I just read A Clockwork Orange for my school's book club, and then I watched the movie. Has anyone else read it? Discuss!

 

[Sir Matzee]

Pro:

The film is beautiful and it clearly explain the crysis of modern man

Contro:

A little bit violent

 

[Snowball]

I really enjoyed the film. I hate it when movie producers take a concept from a book and then totally change it to make a movie sell better i.e. children of men. I thought the movie Clockwork Orange was great for all the interpretation and symbolism. I don't know if it would fly now, though, it seemed a little slow in parts.

 

[holy king]

great book...
liked the additional ending more than that of the first edition/film...

 

[Snowball]

The ending wasn't additional, it was left out in the movie and in the American edition. For some reason, the publishers thought it would sell better without the last chapter. The British, though, took it as it was and published it. I enjoyed the last chapter too. It really brought about a nice sense of finality and completion to the book. Plus it completely changed the context of the rest of the book.

 

[cthom]

a friend lent me that book when i was 15 and studying russian at school. it made it a lot easier to read. i never saw the film though. i think it was pulled very quickly, by kubrick himself?

 

[lovett]

Beautiful film.
Solid book.

 

[sysyphus]

Seen the film many times, read the book twice. I'm guessing we get the British edition in Canada based on what I'm reading above.

Lots of things to love about it. Anthnony Burgess use of Russian words to create a slang was pretty cool, I sometimes use those words for my own amusement.

Of course, the film would be nothing without Walter/Wendy Carlos' soundtrack.

 

[Abaddon]

Love the film, got the book yet not read it!

 

[Phlegmak]

I just read A Clockwork Orange for my school's book club, and then I watched the movie. Has anyone else read it? Discuss!

The movie was spectacular. The book required me to go to the glossary so much, that I tired of it, and I didn't finish it.

 

[Ciceronian]

I watched the movie, and it was bizarre, but very fascinating and intriguing. The soundtrack is really cool too.

And it throws up the really interesting question of whether it is morally commendable to desist from a crime because of external pressures. If Christians don't harm anyone purely because they think that that will guarantee them salvation, then are they actually acting morally?

Pro:

The film is beautiful and it clearly explain the crisys of modern man

Contro:

A little bit violent

Pro:

The film is beautiful and it clearly explain the crisis of modern man
A little bit violent

Contra: Nothing

 

[Harbringer]

The book was incredible, never read the movie.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I saw the film once.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Haven't read the book yet, but intend to soon.

Movie is one of the greatest ever.

 

[Kennigit]

Movie is very very good, as are most Kubrick films.

I have yet to read the book, but probably won't get around to it. As I understand it, the book is more violent than the movie (kills in prison, etc)?

 

[Sir Matzee]

Pro:

The film is beautiful and it clearly explain the crisis of modern man
A little bit violent

Contra: Nothing

You are a sadist .....

 

[Kozmos]

No he's not....he just enjoys some good ol' fashioned ultraviolence. Grow a spine.

 

[Ciceronian]

No he's not....he just enjoys some good ol' fashioned ultraviolence. Grow a spine.

Ultra-violence, Beethoven, and a bit of the old "in-out, in-out"; ah, there's nothing quite like it.

 

[Jawz II]

The book was incredible, never read the movie.

Me neither, but I did see it once.

Good stuff.

 

[West 36]

Saw it with not idea what it would be about. But now that I've seen it, I still feel the same. Help?