A Clockwork Orange (2 Viewers)

[spiny norman]

They did that a while back as well - a Kubrick movie on every sunday night for about 2 moths.

What a strange measurement.

 

[cappen]

yes very.......

 

[CMJ]

My dad bought the whole Kubrick collection a few years ago and i've watched most of them.

The best ones, imo are:

A Clockwork Orange- a really interesting film

The Shining- a really good horror film, which has a scary atmosphere and Jack Nicholson is very convincing in his character play

2001 - the filmaking here is excellent.

 

[spiny norman]

My ranking:

1. Paths Of Glory - so utterly moving. Words can not express
2. A Clockwork Orange - probably the first movie I saw which really disturbed me. I soon after watched Chinatown and Apocalypse Now which managed to moreso, though it still did its job
3. Barry Lyndon - it's the best looking movie I've ever seen
4. Dr. Strangelove - so clever, so funny, so awesome
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey - extremely good and clever, but the slow pace of it means I am sometimes really not in the mood for it
6. Full Metal Jacket - I'm a sucker for Vietnam movies
7. The Shining - extremely suspenseful, probably the best psychological horror movies made. I think Nicholson is a tad over-the-top at some points, though
8. Spartacus - better than Ben Hur
9. The Killing - unique, interesting debut
10. Lolita - pretty good, but Sellers is completely wrong for his role
11. Eyes Wide Shut - watchable, but still his worst by far. I blame the fact that he died.

 

[cappen]

my fav clockwork orange and full metal jacket

 

[Pierotte]

i always figured i had watched the shining cuz i knew the plot and most scenes... but i guess i had just made it up in my head... anyway i watchde it tonight and realised it was a completely new experience...
now heres the thing... im not quite understanding it , is the message that bad events cannot happen twice? or that people go crazy or or... i dont really know...
and WHO IS JOHNNY?

 

[spiny norman]

and WHO IS JOHNNY?

He's Johnny?

 

[Pierotte]

hardi har har...
at risk of sounding like a fool , im seriously asking...
when jack bursts through the bathroom door in that infamous scene proclaiming "HERE'S JOHNNY" why johnny? Im baffled....

 

[SashatheMan]

hardi har har...
at risk of sounding like a fool , im seriously asking...
when jack bursts through the bathroom door in that infamous scene proclaiming "HERE'S JOHNNY" why johnny? Im baffled....

the director was a fan of John haword , duh

 

[Pierotte]

ok well to get an answer - the smart assed comments i looked it up, so if anyone wishes to knowthe story of Johnny goes as follows:

Kubrick really wanted Jack Ncholson to go crackers and look "just right" so he would repeatedly wake him up in the night, over and over and over for weeks on end. Finally Jack was dellusional from lack of sleep and snapped, the snapping point was the "Here's Johnny" line, it wasnt scripted, it was just some spontaneous madness from jack.

The End.

 

[KFunk]

While watching clockwork orange, did anyone else note that we were experiencing the same treatment as alex when we viewed the violence that pervades the film ? After reading the book I found it hard to watch a movie of it... it didn't quite seem to work within the ideas of the original text.

 

[cappen]

not really but point taken neway

 

[SashatheMan]

While watching clockwork orange, did anyone else note that we were experiencing the same treatment as alex when we viewed the violence that pervades the film ? After reading the book I found it hard to watch a movie of it... it didn't quite seem to work within the ideas of the original text.

no no and no..............

 

[INXS]

While watching clockwork orange, did anyone else note that we were experiencing the same treatment as alex when we viewed the violence that pervades the film ? After reading the book I found it hard to watch a movie of it... it didn't quite seem to work within the ideas of the original text.

He does have a point but. Check this out.

Us moral people all hate violence, right?
Let's hear it for "Anti-Violence"! Yayyy!
Let's hear it for Stanley Kubrick! Yayyy!
And let's hear it for his new movie, which
shows how horrible violence is! Yay -- Uh --
Hey, wait a minute! If Mr Kubrick's new
movie is so "Anti-Violence", how come it's
jam-packed with the worst, sickening, most
disgusting violence imaginable? Let's face it,
Stanley, baby! Your movie is really ...

A CROCKWORK LEMON

FROM
MAD MAGAZINE
June 1973

 

[Monkey Butler]

Jack and John are actually interchangable names - Johnny is a nickname for Jack (or was). So it does make sense that Jack Torrens would call himself Johnny - it'd be like someone named William calling themselves Billy.

 

[cappen]

like richard and dick

 

[SashatheMan]

He does have a point but. Check this out.

Us moral people all hate violence, right?
Let's hear it for "Anti-Violence"! Yayyy!
Let's hear it for Stanley Kubrick! Yayyy!
And let's hear it for his new movie, which
shows how horrible violence is! Yay -- Uh --
Hey, wait a minute! If Mr Kubrick's new
movie is so "Anti-Violence", how come it's
jam-packed with the worst, sickening, most
disgusting violence imaginable? Let's face it,
Stanley, baby! Your movie is really ...

A CROCKWORK LEMON

FROM
MAD MAGAZINE
June 1973

why is he pealing an orange then in the picture?

 

[spiny norman]

Jack and John are actually interchangable names - Johnny is a nickname for Jack (or was). So it does make sense that Jack Torrens would call himself Johnny - it'd be like someone named William calling themselves Billy.

That's what I was saying but in a more verbose manner.

 

[cappen]

That's what I was saying but in a more verbose manner.

o yea..........

 

[INXS]

why is he pealing an orange then in the picture?

I got no idea, maybe it symbolises something.