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Old 30-March-2008, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by mike alexander View Post
I always felt the film had to be judged as completely separate from the novelization, since Kubrick and Clarke had, um, differing views of the human species. Consider 'Paths of Glory', 'The Shining' or 'A Clockwork Orange'.
For that matter, try to compare the movie A Clockwork Orange to the novel, Kubrick and Burgess also have wildly different ideas about what it is to be human.

Ok, it didn't help that he based his script on the American version of the novel where the last chapter had been left out, so he invented his own ending which helped to make it look like he had totally misunderstood the novel.
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