A Clockwork Orange should be remade
 

Now hear me out. There's a great story there. Truly great. I'm not terribly concerned with staying true to the book or anything like that (Honestly, I haven't read it). I think the characters and plot should be translated to a near future world. There's so much commentary there about political parties using Alex for their own gain. There's a lot to be said about ethics behind the methods involved in the experiment to make a person less prone to violence.

Take away all the perverted sex stuff in the movie (except the set decoration of milk bar that's awesome!) and have it focus more on Alex and less on his gang.

I think all the ingredients are there for an amazing film. Though I suppose having a murderer/rapist as your main protagonist doesn't bode too well with the studios. I say in the right hands it could be great.

I could see a possibility of making one, but I don't think anyone could top Malcolm McDowells performance and narroration.

disagree...its perfect the way it is why remake it?

You're right. In fact, it's already been made.

it's already a PERFECT movie. no need for a remake or re-imagining whatsoever.

Remake it, and I will boycott the production studio involved FOREVER.

Serious.

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The day Kubrick movies start getting remade is the day I give up on cinema.



And before anyone mentions Lolita or The Shining, the former came out in 1962 and was held back by censorship and the latter was remade as a TV miniseries which doesn't count IMO. Plus The Shining is one of Kubrick's most flawed films, so I'd let that one slide anyway.

It may be one of this flawed films, but it's still a friggin' fantastic film.

Why would you take away the perverted sex stuff? Isn't that really a major theme to the movie? The youth having this weird, completely violent, different view on sexual issues?

I don't know if I'd say it's fantastic. But it's one I can watch(at least most of) over and over again. You can say that about pretty much every Kubrick film.

A Clockwork Orange is damn near perfect though. In fact, I'm trying to think of a single flaw and nothing comes to mind.

If they remade this, I'd send my droogies after the director and everyone else involved.

It needs to be PC for today's audience. We can't have any sexual issues, not PC enough.

Basically, just go ahead and butcher the film. That's the only way to remake it with the way films are today.

"SHUT YOUR BLEEDING HOLE!!!" ;)

no remake, sequel ok

For the most part, everything you describe is in the original film. So I'm not sure why you want a remake. I guess you were put off my the sex stuff and just want that removed. But I'd argue that the film does focus on Alex as is. Saying it should focus less on the gang is a bit odd, since there's not that much focus to begin with on them.

Abso-fucking-lutley not. This thread should be closed at even the mere suggestion of this.

Just a horrible idea.

I'd have to pass.

ACO should NEVER, EVER be remade. Remake all the horror films you want, but no one could EVER do a better job of making Clockwork than Kubrick did. And no one would , or will, ever do a better Alex than McDowell. Terrible idea.

^WORD!. The young actors these days are almost universally terrible. I dont think one would be authentically capable of portraying a a kid in his mid-teens who is a rapist/killer.

You should be banned for suggesting this..... -wink-

Ummm.... NO.

Just borrow some of the same elements and call it something else. Lots of movies do this.

Why stop there?

Why not remake
Raging Bull, The Godfather, Alien, The Exorcist, Gone with The Wind, Ben Hur and of course, Citizen Kane as well? :eek:

So you're the idiot who keeps buying tickets to these shitty remakes.

I hate to break it to you, but...

Just wait for the stage version to tour again.

Oh wait, you didn't like the sexuality so I guess seeing the lead play Alex on stage completely nude wouldn't appeal to you.

Was it the garish decor that turned you off? Nearly forty years later, I can't imagine someone putting together a setting that is any more alien than what Kubrick produced.

Focus more on Alex? Every scene in the movie revolves around him.

It is not far-fetched to picture a major U.S. studio's production of A Clockwork Orange including a scene to 'explain' Alex's sociopathic behavior as a product of some kind of parental neglect. Sure it would undermine every theme of the story, but it's marketable!

How would that even be possible?

Everyone remembers that A Clockwork Orange is based on a book, right?

If they do remake it Hayden Christianson should be the bodyguard :D

Natch.

:sad: -ohbfrank- :whofart: -screwy- :banned: :p

Yikes, I thought I would get some harsh responses but not this bad. I just don't think the film is that great and the story has the potential to be truly good. I think the film works because McDowell's performance but I think a remake could focus more on a story aspect and less character driven.

But I see I've stirred the wasp's nest so I shall cease to mention any more of it.

They already remake enough things they shouldn't. BUT if they ever do, no way can you get rid of the perverted sex stuff. :)

This is the worst idea I've ever heard. Just the idea of remaking it in the first place and then taking the perverted sex out of it in the second place. You'd realize this if you had read the book, but I guess I can't hold that against you.

I would really encourage you to read the novel, though. I actually thought the movie was pretty bad (oh my god blasphemy!), but the novel's gotta be top 10 if not top 5 for me.

And just out of curiosity, do you know why the movie/novel is entitled A Clockwork Orange?

Kubrick only filmed 20 of the 21 chapters, so there's still a little bit of story left for a sequel.

Of course, that chapter involves Alex going back to his gang life but finding it doesn't interest him anymore, and giving it up to get a job and live a normal life. Somehow I don't think that would fly with audiences.

"A Clockwork Orange" is, by design, character driven. And it's about ideas. What's wrong with that? Why do films have to be plot-driven?

I think the OP has the right idea...but in addition to removing the sex, it would be best to remove the violence and bad language. Well, while I'm dealing with the bad language, we should also remove the language that doesn't make sense. THEN we'd be looking at a helluva film!

Also, Will Smith should play Alex. :suicide:

whoever in hollywood is thinking about this needs to be bent over for a good session of the old in out in out

I know that Anthony Burgess was unhappy with Kubrick using the American edition of his book, which had the last chapter deleted. I know that he was unhappy with himself for using a made-up slang to distance himself and the reader from the cruelty of his protagonist.

A remake could have Alex more unlikable, the language clearer, the breakdown of society more explicit, and show Alex's growing maturity at the end.

IIRC, the book was inspired by Burgess's new wife being brutally gang-raped by American servicemen. She lost the baby, spent a lot of time in the hospital, and never recovered either mentally or emotionally. The movie could have more of that tone instead of having choreography and clever language.

rob zombie's a clockwork orange?