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Article: 'Clockwork Orange' production doesn't tick
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- April 4, 2003
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SPECIAL TO RAVE!
\STLrave \STLadi Though it's been 40 years since Anthony Burgess
wrote A Clockwork Orange, his depiction of an ever-increasing violent
society and our desensitization to seeing acts of brutality remains a
relevant cult classic _ thanks, greatly, to Stanley Kubrick's 1971
film version.
But for decades, the English author was disappointed that American
readers and movie-going audiences weren't familiar with his complete
text, because his last chapter was deleted from the U.S. release and
the screenplay.
So in 1987, Burgess _ who expressed overall dissatisfaction with
Kubrick's film _ adapted his novel for the stage, with his
unfamiliar, to Americans, ending.
Director Rick ...