Having recently watched Stanly Kubricks interpretation of the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange in High Definition, I saw many things I've never seen before and was also intrigued by Alex and his Droogs car.

"Alex and his gang escape crammed in a stolen sports car - a Durango 95, a low-slung, fast car - disappearing into the black night of the countryside. Driving at reckless speed in a rush toward the camera (with the sides of the road receding behind them), they play 'chicken' with other vehicles, exhilarated by the panic and excitement of forcing other cars and drivers off the road:

Alex (voice-over): "The Durango-95 purred away real horrorshow - a nice, warm, vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. Soon, it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark.
We fillied around for a while with other travellers of the night, playing hogs of the road. Then we headed west, what we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultra-violence."







A bit of research yields this:





"One of only two such cars in the world, this pristine, museum-quality Probe 16, designed and built by the Adams Brothers, represents 'An investigation into extremes of styling'."

http://www.imps4ever.info/specials/c...e/probe16.html

Pretty rare car when all is said and done. Only two in the world.
It looks like the one Kubrick used was likely not really driven as the footage has mainly a rear screen process going on.

The car was from Scotland.

http://www.imps4ever.info/index.html

Anyway, an interesting avenue of research within one of my favorite films.
Sincerely,
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More on the film here if interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)
It's an interesting ride if you've the guttiwuts for it!

 

That is definately a weird movie.....

Nice find on the car.

 

One of my all time favorite films from on of my favorite directors. A Clockwork Orange is one of the few book to film adaptations that I actually prefer the film. The novel was pretty hard to read because all of the slang and made up words. It was kind of like when you read Lovecraft and you get to one of his made up words except it kept happening repeatedly throughout A Clockwork Orange. It was real easy to follow the film but I kept getting lost reading the book.

 

Thanks!
Yup, the movie is not for everyone, and even to the initiated, it is a strange one in its intent and delivery. It works on many levels.

Cars, I love'em! Even these strange ferin' jobba s!

 

I didn't think it was that strange. It's not as strange as watching David Cronenberg's adaptation of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch.

 

CH, didjya read the original British novel, or the US one with the final chapter left out?

The US one is what Kubrick filmed. The British one had an upbeat ending chapter. Kubrick only found out about the missing chapter as he was finishing his screenplay. He preferred the US version and never thought of actually filming the missing chapter. So the story goes.....

I never read either and will go to the closet and find both, as I know I own them
To kinda quote W Zevon, "People think buying a book buys you the time to read it.........."

Lovecraft, whole other world of goodness! I got into his stuff a bit late as it was all out of print when I was in my reading prime ( teen years). By the time I moved to London in '88 much was back in print over there, so I bought it all up and had a reading renaissance!

Bringing all the books I bought back home, including signed Ramsey Campbell's and more, is a story in itself. Kuwait Airlines had weight limits and needless to say I stretched my resources on the flight home in '89.


My favorite books to skip word and entire pages in are the Amber series by Zelazny. Those Hellrides drove me bonkers

 

Not strange to me either, but I can see how it may not feel right to a person who, let us say, does not know who Argento, or Fulci is.
We may go to the edge and stare over the precipice a bit more than most folks!

Naked lunch is one of the few films I just have not wanted to see. I caught a bit of it once with a living typewriter and said to myself, " Go Cronenberg, but I'm not ready to commit to this film yet". I think it was because this schoolteacher customer of mine had a crush on Peter Weller, and it was just wrong on many levels. She kept going through stages. I once got her some gay men's magazines because they featured Billy Zane somewhere in them( Don't ask ) when she was on her Billy Zane kick. She first came into my shop with her Michael Keaton fixation!

Here she is meeting with Darth at my store's door. But I digress..........

 

I don't know. I made about three chapters in and gave up. I'm assuming it's probably the American one because I got it when I was like 13 or 14 after first seeing the movie. I still have it in my collection of course so maybe I'll have to go back and give it another go now that I'm older. I definitely buy more books than I have time to read. I just started reading Cell even though I bought it forever ago.

 

HAHAHA! True. I have been on a Fulci kick lately. The master of gore, eye mutilation, odd zoom shots, and strange endings when you least expect. I am trying to track down the OOP Anchor Bay release of The New York Ripper in the first print red case. The cheapest I'm finding is like $100 still in wrap or like like $50-60 viewed.

 

film is another form of art that it takes a special intelligence to appreciate