A Clockwork Orange (The Movie)

[jeremias at sover.net]

        Just came back from seeing this on the big screen. I found myself
thinking half way through the movie, "Gosh, some people have got this movie
way wrong". For example the college film board that was sponsoring it
called it (and I quote) "Stanley Kubrick's 1971 satire of a future society
. . )
        Well, I saw this film as the tale of one man's picaresque journey
through a distorted, hyper-stylized world ruled by systems of many sorts.
(Sounds a little familiar if you put it that way doesn't it?) Someone on
the list here once mentioned that Kubrick would be good to direct GR. I
don't know if GR could or *should* be filmed but why doesn't our man TPR
write some screenplays? He's obviously got the chops for it. Kubrick and
Pynchon, what a duo they'd make. Kubrick's use of color in A Clockwork
Orange alone suggests he would be savvy enough to take on some of Pynchon's
ideas.