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A Clockwork Orange dealt in part
with media exploitation. . .
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. . .but now real life imitated art.
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The film was blamed for many brutal
crimes committed by youths. . .
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. . .claiming to have been inspired
by the film's violence.
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The reaction had a devastating impact
on Kubrick and his family.
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The attack on Clockwork Orange
was fierce in Britain.
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It was unbelievable.
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He was directly accused
of murder and mayhem.
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Then every crime in England
was because of Clockwork Orange.
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Stanley was accused
of inciting violence. . .
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. . .and it became very, very ugly.
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He got terrible letters, you know,
almost death threats.
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There were some death threats.
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He asked Warner's,
"Can you please help me?
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I can't live here
if this keeps going on.
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I'm afraid to send my children to
school, my house is besieged.
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I don't want
to show the film anymore. "
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A Clockwork Orange had been playing
successfully for 61 weeks. . .
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. . .but press attacks and threats of
violence against him and his family. . .
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. . .drove Kubrick to withdraw the film
from British cinemas.
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It was an astonishing display
of director power.
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What came over to us was that
a filmmaker should have. . .
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. . .the kind of power that he had
to be able to do it.
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There's no other filmmaker who could
stop a studio distributing their film.
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Studios are about making money.