Uh-oh... that could be trouble... but thanks.
As Burgess was a gay man himself, he may have been wittily referencing the saying for that reason also. He wrote some novels involving homosexuality and they were based on varying degrees of an autobiographical content. "Earthly Powers" was the most overt of these books and reestablished Burgess as a great novelist -- he just missed winning the Booker Prize in Books.
1. I have always thought that the title refers to modern society's tendency to make an organic life form, Man, behave as though he were a machine.
2. I have heard that one of Kubrick's daughters composed the score to "Full Metal Jacket." I don't know if it is the same daughter who plays Heywood Floyd's daughter briefly in "2001."
It was Vivian Kubrick credited as Abigail Mead. She was also in the movie as the TV camera operator over the grave site. She also played the daughter in the pic phone transmission in "2001."
Straight from the horse's mouth from Tripod.com's Kubrick section:
http://kubricks0.tripod.com/burgesnf.htm
Wendy/Walter Carlos site where there are some MP3's of the score to "A Clockwork Orange."
http://www.wendycarlos.com/index.html
The soundtrack to "TRON" is also now available -- I'm searching now for a good price:
http://wendycarlos.com/+tron.html
"I cried for myself. Home, home, home. It was home I was wanting and it was home I came to not realizing in the state I was in where I was and had been before."
To me, this is the most ominous line ever from a movie.
There are very few passages I can quote from any book or movie relying only on my memory and this is one of them. This is one of my very favorite films - I'm partial to movies with narrators anyway.
Why, thank you very much, panzade.
I think its just the longing for home - what we all think of as home - and coming to Home - a nightmare place on so many levels - that makes my spine tingle when he says that. I think home, and Home were probably very similar to him really, and that it was no accident that the house was named Home.
A startling and poignant thought and one of many in the novel and the movie.
Now I've really got the itch to see the movie AND read the book again - it has been years and years for either one.
I'm not one to go searching for "meaning" in entertainment but there is something very Oedipal about the character of Alex (he gets his fix at a milk bar and kills a woman with a giant penis) and the little "Home" speech just drives it all home (no pun intended) for me.
I know his mom and dad appear in the movie and they are very milquetoast so I'm not really sure if my ideas are anywhere near accurate.
Accurate or not, that's my impression.
Welly, welly, well, my M and P . . .
Thanks for hijacking the thread! =)
Heroes...well...I can't say I enjoyed it all to much.
Except that this is "A Clockwork Orange" thread, not a "Hero" thread if that's the film you are referring to.
(If you post a topic, your need to check in and make you own commentary follows).
I believe (but may be wrong) that it was banned by Kubrick himself, but only in the UK. Whether he thought we needed protecting where the rest of the world didn't, I don't know!
We were obliged to go to a smelly, filthy porno movie house to see it when it was released, because the usual distributors would not show it. It was re-released in some theaters in 1974, with all the sex removed and all the violence left in. It really sucks in that form . . .
