You must not have seen the extra reel with an hour of footage where Alex is forced to watch Charlie Chaplin films and starts walking around amusingly and generally being wacky, then.
Since we're taking the van, we SHOULD be able to take two passengers. We're also taking a bunch of stuff up for furtech so it might be a bit cramped, but it should be manageable,
o/~ I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper and keep him company... o/~
The film was just dripping with wry humor, black as pitch. :) So many other things, like the sheer imbecile grin on Alex's face through so much of the film... the absurdly officious Britisher at the prison who checks in Alex's things... the stop-motion sex scene... I think it wouldn't have been nearly so good a film without it -- it reflected Alex's creepy hebephrenic detachment just perfectly. Absolutely agreed that Kubrick did this quite deliberately to jar the audience and give it desperately unwanted sympathy with all the wrong characters.
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Date: 2004-01-19 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-22 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-19 10:56 pm (UTC)OT-- will you need a ride to FC?
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Date: 2004-01-20 12:44 am (UTC)Are you departing Thurs, Fri, or Sat? Also, Ashy is halfway considering hitching a ride if I do. Oh dear.
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Date: 2004-01-20 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 12:27 pm (UTC)I don't think Ashy or myself will be taking much more than a bag. When you're not dealing you can travel pretty light.
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Date: 2004-01-20 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-20 08:34 am (UTC)dork dork dork...
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Date: 2004-01-20 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 04:06 pm (UTC)I could theorize that this was deliberate, to make the violent bits more shocking. I dunno. It kinda defused them for me.
In fact, the theatrical trailer on the DVD rather sold it as a comedy.
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Date: 2004-01-22 04:41 am (UTC)o/~ I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper and keep him company... o/~
The film was just dripping with wry humor, black as pitch. :) So many other things, like the sheer imbecile grin on Alex's face through so much of the film... the absurdly officious Britisher at the prison who checks in Alex's things... the stop-motion sex scene... I think it wouldn't have been nearly so good a film without it -- it reflected Alex's creepy hebephrenic detachment just perfectly. Absolutely agreed that Kubrick did this quite deliberately to jar the audience and give it desperately unwanted sympathy with all the wrong characters.