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KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Favorite lines < Reply # 13 on 1/10/2006 5:22 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Emma Peel
I watched that movie three times last week.
One of my all-time favorite books and movies... A Clockwork Orange "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!" and "Initiative comes to thems that wait."
| Excellent call, my friend. I watched that one a few weeks ago. I've seen it something like 20 times over the years. Never gets dull. Read the book voraciously as a teenager, when senseless ultra-violence was fun.
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| dirt
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Je suis très aimable et très caustique.
| | | | | Re: Favorite lines < Reply # 17 on 11/13/2008 8:14 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by metawaffle
Hmm. I came late to the movie, already well-acquainted with the book. I was just horrified, and couldn't forgive what they'd done to the ending. I know Kubrick claimed his copy of the book "had the last chapter missing" or some such, but regardless, I left the little arthouse cinema spitting bile at anyone who would listen. "They lost the whole point of the story!" I ranted at passing children. But anyway. Perhaps I should watch it again, given that I must have been about nineteen at the time, and prone to a cynical outlook on such things. Maybe this time, I'll appreciate that surreal make-up and giant penis furniture makes up for a complete dismissal of the book's resolution. Yes, I'm having a bad morning
| There are two versions of the book, the UK and the US. The US version is missing the last chapter. I have come to the conclusion that Lit and film are two separate artistic mediums, and that if Kubrick would have been faithful to the book, the movie would not have been as good as it was. "and this in the black frenzied nothingness of the hollow of absence leaves a gloomy feeling of saturated despondency not unlike the topmost tip of desperation which is only the gay juvenile maggot of death's exquisite rupture with life." ~Henry Miller "love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm." ~Charles Bukowski
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| | | | Re: Favorite lines < Reply # 18 on 11/13/2008 9:42 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by dirt
There are two versions of the book, the UK and the US. The US version is missing the last chapter. I have come to the conclusion that Lit and film are two separate artistic mediums, and that if Kubrick would have been faithful to the book, the movie would not have been as good as it was.
| I'm sure you're right about the lit/film thing - despite my comments earlier, I'd have been all for the movie if it wasn't for the ending. From Wikipedia: Burgess explains that when he'd first brought the book to an American publisher, he'd been told that U.S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways and resolves to turn his life around (a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia; the moment at which one's protagonist realizes that everything he thought he knew, was wrong). Well, there you go, though I would have said Alex "matures", rather than "sees the error of his ways"
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