According to CNN, Entertainment Weekly has voted Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, based on the sf novel by Anthony Burgess, the 2nd all-time most controversial movie. (Coming in first was Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.)
I saw that movie a long, long time ago and some of the imagery still remains vivid. (Besides the aforementioned eyes-wide-open scene, I seem to remember a shoe-licking and somebody being bludgeoned with a giant, porcelain...ummm...oh, never mind.) I would like to see the movie again, but I'd like to wait until I read the book, which waits patiently in a box somewhere.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday June 12, 2006 at 10:53 AM
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I don't see how The Passion is more controversial than Last Temptation of Christ. You don't get more controversial than getting shut down a few days after your first screening.
Posted by Jose on Monday June 12, 2006 at 5:11 PM at 5:11 PM