Copy Cat Theory
This is the original traier for the film 'A Clockwork Orange' that I found on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/u7rOcTA3KXs
Copy Cat Theory = Copycat crimes are criminal acts that are modeled on previous crimes that have been reported in the media. A film that sparked many copy cat violent killings and attacks was 'A Clockwork Orange'. The Director bannded his own film because of these events.
Clockwork Orange was released in British cinemas in 1971 with an X rating. It got four Oscar nominations.
It was adapted from Anthony Burgess’s novel written in the invented street slang Nadsat.
The film’s violent scenes sparked copycat attacks. In one, a 17-year-old Dutch girl was raped in Lancashire by a gang chanting Singin’ in the Rain.
In another a child was beaten by a 16-year-old boy wearing white overalls, black bowler hat and boots.
Stanley Kubrick, the film’s director, voluntarily withdrew the film from British cinemas in 1973.
After the director’s death in 1999, the film was re-released in Britain.
Channel 4’s screening of it in 2002 was its first on British mainstream TV.
In 2003 Peter Foster, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, received two life sentences for murders 13 years apart; the murders were said to replicate the film’s attacks.
