Viddy Violence - a theme for Mimi

My besty mate wonders if her boy thinks about fights. This in the 21st Century. It’s been going on for generations and there’s a clip here that was BANNED for years, the film was A Clockwork Orange, its stars were Malcolm McDowell and a young Ray Winstone.

The film poster (an absolute classic) was seen on bedroom walls a decade later. Young star Malcolm went on to be part of Lindsay Anderson’s team and became Mick Travis. If and O Lucky Man were films that defined their age, their actors and their audiences.

The first clip is the very young Malc



Fighting the droogs, and then, in If
There was something indecent about Travis:



And Travis just hated them all.

He became the unprincipled travelling salesman in O Lucky Man



A very lucky man to encounter the gorgeous Helen

And at the very end of it:



Lindsay – who I meet years ago at a film festival, is now dead. Malcolm has gone to Hollywood for Star Trek movies. Helen is the Queen of England.

I still love the films, but I don’t think any of us thought the participants would be in this place now.