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Topic: "Classic" movies you hate...and why
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Stephen Furley
Film God
Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 07-06-2010 12:08 AM
quote: Joe Redifer
Why would anyone get death threats over Clockwork Orange? I know the movie sucks, but threatening to kill the director is going a bit too far.
Some people think the film was banned in England; it wasn't. It was given a certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, as it then was, and opened in cinemas. It was given a terrible review by probably the most famous film critic in Britain at the time. Basically he said something along the lines of it was evil, the worst film he'd ever seen, he could find nothing good to say about it, I think also something about it shouldn't have been made. This was also picked up by our self-appointed minder of sex and violence of television, some senior people within the Church of England, and by certain other newspapers. This turned into a major campaign against the film, and it was claimed that certain real-life attacks on people had been inspired by the film; whether this was true, I don't know. This was what led to threats being made against Kubrick, who decided he'd had enough, and somehow managed to have the film withdrawn from distribution here. It remained available elsewhere, and was shown somewhere almost continuously in France, where it had something of a cult following.
A few years before Kbrick's death a television programme was made which wanted to use a few short clips from the film. As far as I can remember this went to court, and there was an attempt to get an injunction to stop the programme, or at least the clips from the film, being transmitted. this eventually failed, and the programme was transmitted, with the clips. I didn't see it, so I don't know what was shown.
A few years later, while Kubrick was still alive there was talk of the film being released again, and it was indeed released on DVD; I'm not sure if it actually came out before or after Kubrick's death, but there was certainly discussion about it before. After he died it was shown in a tribute season at the National Film Theatre, and then released to other cinemas.
I bought the DVD when it came out, and this was the first time I had seen any of the film; I would have been too young to have been able to see it during its brief original release. I knew that it featured strangely-dressed young men, violence and music by Beethoven, but that was about all. When I watched it I couldn't help wondering what the fuss had been about. I didn't really like the film when I first saw it, but it's sort of grown on me having seen it a few times.
The version I saw in the US was slightly different to that which was released here. I don't know which, if either, was he same as the original release.
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