3 famous "prison" movies |
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dwill123
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Topic: 3 famous "prison" movies Posted: July 28 2017 at 16:35 |
"White Heat" - James Cagney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nuAuowU94
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 28 2017 at 12:15 |
Cuckoos Nest.....simply for Nicholson...., Clockwork is ok and Shawshank was a bit boring to me.
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Tapfret
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Posted: July 27 2017 at 20:39 |
Spot on
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Blaqua
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Posted: July 27 2017 at 19:42 |
I voted for clockwork orange, mostly because my recollections
of the other 2 aren't that fresh. I remember being impressed by Shawshank as it is much superior to S. King's novella of the same name on which it is loosely
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Greys0n
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Posted: May 09 2017 at 07:08 |
don't know about prison movie but I know on awesome tv show Prison Break
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: April 30 2017 at 00:17 |
Cuckoo's Nest is horrible compared to the book & I never liked Shawshank so..
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Man With Hat
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Posted: April 24 2017 at 10:31 |
Clockwork
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Vompatti
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Posted: April 24 2017 at 10:01 |
Cuckoo's Nest out of these ones.
A Man Escaped out of other ones.
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Jeffro
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Posted: April 24 2017 at 05:00 |
Stalag 17
The Great Escape
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Catcher10
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Posted: April 21 2017 at 09:37 |
Papillon...the best ever!
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 21 2017 at 01:48 |
Shawshank Redemption! Excellent film, although I've probably seen it enough now.
The other two aren't prison films. My fave of the three overall though is Clockwork Orange. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 21 2017 at 01:10 |
I don't consider Clockwork to be a prison movie... Neither is Cuckoo's Nest (it's an asylum)
Midnight Express and Concrete Jungle are prison movies But Shawshank Redemption is one of the top Hollywood movie ever |
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Barbu
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Posted: April 20 2017 at 19:34 |
Shaw
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Logan
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 20:25 |
I don't think that A Clockwork Orange was an easy one to translate to screen, and he did have his own vision for it. I've read the books/ stories that those Kubrick films were based on and I don't think he ruined any of them. With 2001 he collaborated with Clarke and based it on the short story The Sentinel. Later on Clarke wrote the novel of the same name which explained things more. I prefer the film version. The Sentinel is a fine short story, though not my favourite Clarke work. As for the Shining, yes King didn't like it for moving away from the supernatural elements and making lots of changes to the story, but I prefer the film version (and I love lots of Stephen King books). Stephen King had a miniseries made (wrote the teleplay) that was truer to his vision and I thought it poor. King has called Kubrick's The Shining the worst adaptation of any of his books, but it's by far the best that I've seen. It's not that faithful, but I don't see that as a negative. As for A Clockwork Orange, it is terrific novel, and I understand why Burgess didn't like the adaptation thinking that it glorified sexual violence. I don't see it like that. In all of those I like that Kubrick put his own slant on things, and one can both enjoy the books and the movies. Sometimes I don't get the furor that people make when adaptions are not very faithful as often I like to read the books and watch and enjoy that they are different. A good example for me would be Truffaut's version of Fahrenheit 451. Sometimes I don't like the changes they make.... As for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, of which I've also read the book, plenty of changes though the message did remain the same. Midnight Express, my prison pick not on the list was still a good film despite the liberties it took with the source material (which in itself was not that accurate). |
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Larkstongue41
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 20:07 |
^ This is the point. Kubrick was a true artist. He did not simply adapt novels for the big screen, he appropriated the source material to himself with his own perception of it and made something completely different out of it.
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Upbeat Tango Monday
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 19:34 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is my pick.
Shawshank is average at best. A Clockwork Orange is a disaster. How many books has Kubrick ruined? The Shining, 2001, A Clockwork Orange...I'm pretty sure Kubrick didn't understand the novel at all. It's so bad in fact that the message is actually the complete opposite of the book. Go read the novel, it's quite good. |
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Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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Kepler62
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 18:51 |
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Larkstongue41
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 17:44 |
I used the term "prison movie" just to
Edited by Larkstongue41 - April 19 2017 at 18:00 |
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verslibre
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 17:22 |
A Clockwork Orange (though not a "prison" movie). Timely and timeless!
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dwill123
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Posted: April 19 2017 at 17:06 |
The Green Mile Stir Crazy
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