Clocktrain wind up work?

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 27 02:24:49 CDT 2002


Er, perhaps I might rewrite the equation thus ...

(teenage ultraviolence + heroin) x Japanese = ...

Throw in rock 'n' roll and zombies and you get Wild
Zero (dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi, 2000) ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0267116

http://www.gaga.ne.jp/movie/wildzero/

--- Monica Belevan <quodlibet at surrealestate.com>
wrote:
> 
> Now that we´re at it: where did this alleged
> fraternity between Clockwork and Trainspotting
> start, and, who began it?

Not me, I swear.  I suppose, though, it's simply the,
er, entertainingly/disturbingly fucked-up teen angle
(Suburbia [dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1984] or Kids,
anyone?  And I, er, enjoyed Larry Clark's Bully [2001]
as well--Big Dumb Kids ...).  But whilst I love
Kubrick's film, am no fan of Boyle's.  Was thinking
more (or less) Burgess and Welsh here, so ...

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