NOTE FROM JOHN:

Recently, the BBC played Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”,
marking the first time the film has appeared on television in
England since it was pulled by Kubrick in 1971 after complaints
about its content. So, what did the Brits find so offensive?

The Top 5 British
Complaints About “A Clockwork Orange”

5> In at least one point during the movie, the sun set on the British Empire.

4> It’s not so much the sex and violence, as much as the “Singing in the Rain” beating scene. “I mean, rilly, couldn’t Kubrick have used something British… something, say by Vera Lynn, eh wot?”

3> I say, couldn’t we have seen another one of those Jane Austin adaptations? Ripping stuff, that.

2> Too little green and pleasant land, too much eyelid-prying reprogramming.

and the Number 1 British Complaint About “A Clockwork Orange”…

1> In a civilized society, depictions of speeded-up sex should be accompanied by Benny Hill-style kazoo music, not some pompous Teutonic drivel by Beethoven.

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Credits:

Selected from 31 submissions from 9 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Larry Hollister, Concord, CA — 1 (First #1! Woohoo!)
Dave Hill, Centennial, CO — 2, 3 (Rookie!)
Guy Payne, Birmingham, AL — 4
Charles d’Olive, Waterloo, IA — 5
John Mozena, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI — Prime Director