Our film is being adapted into a British gangster film, with styles that follow A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs and Outlaws. This decison came forth as it is easier to produce and create a storyline as well as using strong violence within youths to shock the audience.
The film is now called 'Blighty' and follows three patriotic youths taking the law into their own hands.
It began as a novel in 1962 by Anthony Burgess of the same name, and became a film adaption by Stanely Kubrick 10 years later. It's release shocked audiences nationwide with it's strong scenes of violence and rape consequently led to withdrawl from cinemas, with exclusion of a few in London. One particular scene where Alex and his Drooges break into a home and rape a woman while singing 'Singing in The Rain', was copied by attackers. Subsequently, Warner Brothers withdrew the film from British distrubuters with Kubrick's request.
The film follows Alex, and teenager who believes in 'ultra violence', with he and his three droogs attacking, stealing and raping as he pleases. However after a disagreement with these drooges, he is lured into a house where he accidently kills a woman, and upon fleeing is attacked by the drooges and left for the police. He is later convicted of murder. During his sentence he agrees to take part is an experimental aversion therapy called the 'Ludovico Technique' in which he is given drugs and forced to watch images of violence and hate to Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony'. The outcome makes him feel extremely sick whenever he tries to engage in anything wrong, however it leaves him powerless to defend himself to the hateful outside world of prison, including an old homeless man who he had attacked at the beginning of the film. To his surprise he discovers Dim and Georgie have become policemen, who kidnap Alex and try to drown and beat him in the middle of a wood. He later manages to find a house where he calls for help, later discovering that he had previously attacked and raped the occupants while happily singing 'Singing in the Rain'. Mr. Alexander, the old writer who witnessed this, realises who Alex is after he chants the same song in the bath. He is again drugged and kidnapped and lock in a room, where Mr. Alexander plays the 'Ninth Symphony' aloud, causing Alex to be extremely ill and forces him to jump out of a window. In hospital a series of test suggest his head injurys has affected the experiment. In the last scene it is made clear that his mind is back to the old ways after the 'Ninth Symphony' is played especially for him and he is reminded of images of sexual pleasure, and in a sarcastic tone, he says "I was cured, all right".
The end is a mockery to idea of a 'happy ending' and causing deep reaction to the audience, suggesting that maybe there is no cure to uncontrolable youths. Here is the original trailer to the film, however it is not subtle in the slightest about the violence and rape, with everything flashing brightly to Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony'.
Paranormal Activity is an independant American horror film written and directed by Oren Peli, and follows a homemade video diary of a couple suffering from supernatural events. Though made in 2007 on a very small budget of $15,000 and finally released in public cinemas in 2009, the film has recieved a gross revenue of $141,870,499 and an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 172 reviews.
To promote the film successfully, film taken from an American screening showed the horrified auidience, proving that the film was genuinely scary.
