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I was rewatching Mystery on the Friendship Express, and I noticed this peculiar shot.
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Well the author of the book it’s based on, Anthony Burgess, has stated that it was never meant to glorify violence. It was intended to be an investigation into the nature of evil and free will. An interview he gave in 1985 even discussed that particular issue.
Yeah, you’re right. I guess I just find it kind of depressing that the majority of kids won’t even watch something as classic as Star Wars because it’s old. And as I’ve said, the only kids I’m familiar with who like A Clockwork Orange, only like it because it’s violent, when the violence in A Clockwork Orange is supposed to disturb you, not entertain you. I tried to pitch intellectual discussions about it, because it’s impressive that they like something that’s old, but nope. All they do is talk about the unpleasant scenes, as if they watched it with a big bowl of popcorn.
Kids can amaze, I guess I’m just talking from experience.
To be fair, I mostly remember it because Redd, from That 70s Show, is one of the main villains. That’ll never stop being hilarious to me.
Also, mandatory comment about how the original was waaaaaaaaay better than the sequels, both due to its superior story as well as its superior writing (some of the dialogue in the sequels is just… bad).
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While they do all come from somewhere, you just admitted that it’s still a generalization.
I know plenty of people that I grew up with who are more than capable of watching a film regardless of how old the film is. I was born in ‘88 and one of my favorite films of all time is Psycho. I’ve got a buddy that’s six years younger than me who still refuses to acknowledge the Rambo sequels due to the fact that none of them are even remotely as intelligent or soul-crushingly depressing as First Blood.
Again, generalizations aside, kids can impress you. Age does not dictate how well one can relate to art of any kind.
The problem is that most kids these days refuse to watch anything before the year 2000. The ones that do from my experience only like the films from the surface. It actually makes me really sad, because in an ocean of kids who would think A Clockwork Orange is “boring old people stuff”, there might be that one kid who likes it, but for the completely wrong reason.
It is a generalization, but all generalizations come from somewhere.
Okay I think I have a more apt example. The original 1987 version of Robocop. The satire in that movie is now more accurate than when it originally came out but everyone seems to mostly remember how gruesome and violent it got.
I find it to be a bit of an oversimplification to say that it’s “millennials” that don’t understand the core of the film, especially due to said film’s age. It’s more about what demographic the millennial in question comes from.
I grew up as… fuck, I dunno, one of the “cool losers” that never really fit in with any of the other crowds, as did most of my friends in school. We all enjoyed classes like Film Studies, Psychology, and Music Theory, so films like A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, and 2001: A Space Odyssey were always really fascinating to us.
Along those same lines, I can understand why other kids wouldn’t really get into artsy-fartsy movies like those; they’re either just not really interested in them or the messages go over their heads.
I just think it’s unfair to say that all millennials fail to enjoy the films due to their young age. Even the youngest of kids can impress you sometimes, you know?
To be honest, you’d be hard-pressed to find a millenial who likes A Clockwork Orange, keeping in mind it’s an old film. But the rare cases tend to get nothing out of it except “OMG it’s violent”.
Ignoring the thought-provoking questions it asks regarding our right to do evil being a quality as present in human nature as our ability to do good. Or if the most evil person in the world can really be more evil than an institution bent on power and domination.
Kinda of, I guess. While the two are hardly the same sort of story, they are quite popular with teens who don’t really care about their in-depth plots or characters.
Some kids just wanna murder people in the desert and rape old ladies to a jaunty tune.
[Sighs]
your current filter.You mean like…I swear I should have an apt comparison for this but I don’t. Spec-Ops: The Line maybe?