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Feature: 17 Oct Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured slang composed of Slavic especially Russian , English and Cockney rhyming slang. High quality, custom made, hand tufted 1 ply wool or China wool — one of the most iconic carpets in film. All sit together to create an unsettling atmosphere and combine the fantastic with the obscene. Viddy well.

The film had been controversial in Britain; its detractors, who wanted it banned, charged that it glamorized and thereby promoted violence. The young men dressed as droogs seemed to confirm the charge, though of course it is one thing to imitate a form of dress and quite another to imitate behavior. Still, even a merely sartorial identification with psychopathic violence shocked me, for it implied an imaginative sympathy with such violence; and seeing those young men outside the theater was my first intimation that art, literature, and ideas might have profound—and not necessarily favorable—social consequences. The author of the book, Anthony Burgess, a polymath who once wrote five novels in a year, came to dislike this particular work intensely, not because of any practical harm to society that the film version of it might have caused but because he did not want to go down in literary history as the author of a book made famous, or notorious, by a movie.

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Today, 45 years after its release on December 19, , the futuristic fable -- about an ultraviolent thug Malcolm McDowell , in his star-making performance who becomes even more soulless after behavior modification therapy -- seems more and more prescient about the way we live now. Still, as influential and imitated as "Clockwork" has been, there's plenty you may not know about it, from the real-life tortures McDowell endured to the film's unlikely " Star Wars " connection, to the movie's notorious afterlife. Cue up some Beethoven and read on. Kubrick was going to follow up his landmark sci-fi hit " A Space Odyssey " with a movie about Napoleon, which never got off the ground.