A Clockwork Orange

peteyt · 20-06-2011, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by Judas

i just bow to the shining. nice sig btw

I didn't care for the film that much, but the book is amazing, but then that's Stephen King for you.

This film was okay, but it wasn't as great as I expected.

Strangely in a library my mate found the book for A Clockwork Orange in the children's section.

Mathew · 20-06-2011, 08:51 PM

A guy in my Psychology class has spoken about it on numerous occasions, trying to persuade the teacher to let us watch it but to no avail. What is it actually about? I've heard some say it's wayyyy inappropriate, apparently it's banned in some place... yet others say it's amazing?

**Misawa** · 20-06-2011, 08:54 PM

When watching The Shining, you can't compare it to the book really becuase it's so different. It's a great film in it's own right, but thing of it as Kubrick's movie, rather than his adaptation of a very, very different book.

Shar · 20-06-2011, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Mathew

A guy in my Psychology class has spoken about it on numerous occasions, trying to persuade the teacher to let us watch it but to no avail. What is it actually about? I've heard some say it's wayyyy inappropriate, apparently it's banned in some place... yet others say it's amazing?

Kubrick himself banned it in the UK during 1972 I think..
I'm terrible at explaining things so here's the link to IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

Mathew · 20-06-2011, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Shar

Kubrick himself banned it in the UK during 1972 I think..
I'm terrible at explaining things so here's the link to IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

Oh how interesting. Thanks for the link.

Aversion Therapy.... that's why it was brought up in Psychology!

Kubrick looks like Misawa..

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Fez · 20-06-2011, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by Mathew

Oh how interesting. Thanks for the link.

Aversion Therapy.... that's why it was brought up in Psychology!

Kubrick looks like Misawa..

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Eli Roth, Zachary Quinto and now Kubrick? Adam you're on a roll

Originally Posted by Misawa

When watching The Shining, you can't compare it to the book really becuase it's so different. It's a great film in it's own right, but thing of it as Kubrick's movie, rather than his adaptation of a very, very different book.

It's an interpretation and not an adaptation, something which Snyder's Watchmen absolutely fails at. It's so faithful in style and some of its substance that the liberties it takes don't fit in with the puzzle. It even twists bits to suit its political commentary on the *sigh* Bush administration and flips many of the action scenes to high set-pieces rather than tense slow plods of character just to suit the 'average movie viewer'. Kubrick's Shining decides to just make a film based on the material rather than try and slap the material on screen and it succeeds. In many ways I prefer it to the book but I also prefer the book's interpretation too, the two rather complete each other.