If there is a god, one day we will have 4K restorations of this film and A New Hope with zero CGI, pointless added scenes or plasticized color grading.
Out side influence hijacks al their headphones and speakers and a loud voice yells out "Shut the hell up, all of you! Your speaking meaningless nonsense! let THX do his job undisturbed!"
Something like this should have been done at my boarding school... To the staff. I guess... It was luckily closed for torture to teens - R.I.P Victory Christian Academy and Genesis by the Sea. They rescued girls in torture cells, silence 2 months at a time re-writing bible chapter, forced to eat vomit, no touching, eye contact, no phone, TV, contact with outside world. Rape? Assault! If you experience poverty, homelessness, disease, or violence at women as an adult these places don't seem that bad . You kind of laugh it off. Lucky for me, I didn't get the worst of it.
I saw this film when it came out in 1968 - escaped from Sherborne (public school) and hitch-hiked to Yeovil to see it - yeah - it fuelled my fight to survive that hell-hole
Yes,me too,from a nearby public school (which I shan’t name ) Often visited for rugby and fencing tournaments etc. The security of our CCF armoury and the small bore rifle range was virtually non existent in those days !
I graduated from a boarding school in 1967. My brother in ‘65. We saw together twice and solo each another 7 times apiece. We’d also spent the academic year 1960-61 at an English public school in Oxford. At both institutions the motto was “Humiliation is the handmaiden of education.” Perhaps I paraphrase. Really hard to get a copy in any format.
As epic as this trailer is, I wish they could have left out that final shot. You really need to have seen that shot for the first time in your life, seeing that film for the first viewing. Incredibly powerful.
it's funny. I first saw it at 13. I remeber the last shot and thinking, hang on this film has finished without a finale. Too quickly. Yet in the coming years I came to see it as one of the best endings to one of the best films ever made.
I felt the same way. This is a movie about a lot of things, ideas, satire, rebellion and much more - and focusing on the bullet-soaked finale is a disservice.
This looks so much better. I just saw the movie for the first time and despite having never seen the 'original' every dodgy 2000s CGI insertion stuck out like a sore thumb.
Yeah, the CG work they did on Robert Duvall's eyes just looked weird. Definitely freaky, but not the kind of freaky that lines up with the scene. This is much more unsettling because of the visual simplicity.
This was the film that made Stanley Kubrick decide on Malcom McDowell, and only McDowell, for the role of Alex in 'Clockwork Orange'. He was reportedly so adamant about it that he decided not to make the film if McDowell turned down the role
"if..." was kind of shocking when it was new. It alternated between color and black & white, the meaning of which was debated even though the filmmakers said they only did it because sometimes they didn't have enough money to purchase color film while they were in production. It also had total female and male nudity; the latter was particular surprising at the time although today it might be considered child porn because it was the boys in the showers who were nude. The end, seen here, is a mass murder / shooting that interrupted the school's graduation ceremony. Overall it doesn't make much sense.
The false and corrupt values embodied in the public school system I endured were exposed by this film and are still evident in the behaviour of the Tory Govt
