I want Kai-chan on the poster, not a stupid orange

[wao_wao]

I still say she looks more like Seto Kazuya than she does herself.

At least a little bit?

Also, because Yuuhi is randomly holding an orange and I was looking at the Umegei website today, the mere idea of this scares me shitless. (No, there aren't any OGs in it as far as I can see

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[wao_wao]

But wouldn't you rather see Sumika on the poster than an orange?

[wao_wao]

I originally put that Yuuhi was "hilariously" holding an orange, but it didn't gel with the rest of the sentence and the frightening concept of a Clockwork Orange musical. I replaced the word, er, at random.

[wao_wao]

The way you've managed to avoid so many pop culture horrors continues to amaze me.

Re: Clockwork, let's just say that brainwashing / mental re-conditioning is one of my big buttons; those kinds of movies scare me more than slashing and gore.

By the way, I never did say mazel tov on the new LJ name :) ♥

[michiru42]

A Clockwork Orange is a serial rapist/killer story about young men with a taste for "ultra-violence" as they call it. Act one is our protagonist and his gang raping and mutilating lots of people. >_< According to Wikipedia, it's been voted one of the best English novels of the 20th Century by the Modern Library and was made into a really successful movie that's considered a horror classic.

I have yet to read or see it myself. I'm a fan of horror and dystopian stories, but from what I've read, this one might be too much for me.

[ruderal_species]

*butts in*

I've read the book and watched the movie for the first time within the last 2 months.

The movie was quite shocking when it was released, but is actually pretty tame compared to movies these days. Not just horror movies, but lots of regular "R" rated movies these days include violence that's AT LEAST as disturbing. The film IS wonderful and, in addition to the social criticism, is by far the best portrait of a psychopathic mind I've ever seen.

The book is 90% the same plot, but the take home message is much more about society's limitations on our freedoms. To me, the best part of the book is how it immerses you in this fictional teenage slang that the author created, which is a combination of cockney, Russian, and differently-defined English. As a linguistics geek I found that aspect really fun actually. :)

*butts out again*

[wao_wao]

And for the linguistics geek in me, it was the invented slang that made me read the book even *after* being creeped out by the movie.

Unsurprisingly, the book was easier to handle -- what you said about the message, plus disturbing images being worse than words on paper.

I still can't stand stories about people being reprogrammed, though. They scare me probably more than psychopaths.

[ruderal_species]

Ooo, ooo! Did you read the original American release (stops at the same point as the movie) or the version with the final chapter??? Because I could go on and on about the advantages and disadvantages of each if you let me! *geek*

Personally, I found some of the stuff in the book MORE disturbing than in the movie. There's a lot more stuff being done to, like, 12-year-olds in the book. :/

And I can totally see how the movie would hit your buttons if you get weirded out by brainwashing. I think for me, after hearing for so long about how HUGELY violent and shocking the movie is, I finally watched it and was like, "...Actually, they don't show that much..." Not that it's still not mentally unnerving, but so much violent death and rape are portrayed in films these days, that I don't think it has the same effect today as it did in the 60's...

(Pan's Labyrinth remains the non-horror film I've seen that I found most violently disturbing...)

[wao_wao]

Oh well I read it like five years ago, but I made sure to find a version that had the "real" ending, as I recall.

Feel free to geek away, but as I said, it was a while back and hard for me to remember ^_^;;

Although different standards in old movies reminds me when we watched A Streetcar Named Desire in English class... There was some "risque" scene that the teacher actually had to point out because none of us would have even blinked at it otherwise.

[michiru42]

That's good to know ,thanks. I've been quite interested in it and wondering about seeing/reading it.