Never had seen it! Waited for Blu-ray. It was mahvelously good. The movie, not especially the transfer.
But several times the characters said, like, "like", like in the current usage associated with Valley Girls.
The date was 1971. I can cite no earlier instance of that horrid formulation. Can anyone say whether it was this film that incited the like craze?
Was it used in the Burgess novel as well?
clark
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Topic - Watched, like, this movie like, last night -- A Clockwork Orange. - clarkjohnsen 08:12:00 07/07/08 (33)
- First I saw it was in the UMass Boston Studios of WGBH - ArdRi 21:31:10 07/09/08 (7)
- Hmmm... finding it hard to believe that a rock like that would continue to exist unshaven by the staff. - clarkjohnsen 08:27:16 07/10/08 (6)
- Born in Winchester Hospital ,grew up in Westwood - ArdRi 21:09:11 07/11/08 (5)
- Where in southern NH do you live? - jackrandom 05:41:10 07/12/08 (4)
- Between Seabrook and Winchester... - ArdRi 13:05:17 07/12/08 (3)
- RE: Between Seabrook and Winchester... - jackrandom 13:53:44 07/12/08 (2)
- It'd be Milford... don't ask... just found a cheap condo - ArdRi 14:12:34 07/12/08 (1)
- RE: It'd be Milford... don't ask... just found a cheap condo - jackrandom 15:10:51 07/12/08 (0)
- Most Likely Kubrick kyped it from Brando's The Wild One. nt - geoffkait 17:07:46 07/09/08 (0)
- These days it's... - Davy-pie 12:32:51 07/09/08 (1)
- Like, d'ya know what I'm saying? nt - clarkjohnsen 12:38:48 07/09/08 (0)
- The moog synthesized Beethoven tracks are sublime... - SF tech 16:52:35 07/08/08 (2)
- Thought it might have been Carlos. The segues are terrific too. nt - clarkjohnsen 08:35:26 07/09/08 (0)
- That was Moog's comeuppance. * - mr grits 06:31:19 07/09/08 (0)
- I like like, likely more than you like likely. - halfnote 20:05:28 07/07/08 (4)
- OK, but what of the rising inflection at the ends of sentences used by the same people? - clarkjohnsen 08:19:51 07/09/08 (2)
- RE: OK, but what of the rising inflection at the ends of sentences used by the same people? - halfnote 21:44:28 07/09/08 (1)
- Yes, as stated the rise is "the linguistic marker for the interrogative." OK? - clarkjohnsen 08:37:54 07/10/08 (0)
- Cool ..nt - late 21:36:14 07/07/08 (0)
- "It's, like, funny... - geoffkait 15:35:04 07/07/08 (0)
- Funny you should mention this film... - mkuller 14:53:06 07/07/08 (0)
- The movie was BANNED in the UK for decades for fear of futher violence...... - mr grits 11:06:10 07/07/08 (0)
- are you like, serious, man? - tunenut 10:47:18 07/07/08 (2)
- RE: are you like, serious, man? Maynard G Krebs.......RIP Bob Denver....n/t - Awe-d-o-file 15:15:06 07/07/08 (0)
- The current formulation requires, like, a comma after the "like". nt - clarkjohnsen 11:18:12 07/07/08 (0)
- Good movie, fortunately for me. . . - Larry I 10:42:08 07/07/08 (2)
- The Thieving Magpie? - mr grits 13:04:35 07/07/08 (0)
- How do you do with the William Tell Overture? nt - clarkjohnsen 11:16:53 07/07/08 (0)
- RE: Watched, like, this movie like, last night -- A Clockwork Orange. - RFitzgerald 10:35:29 07/07/08 (3)
- Yes, it was far better than I had (mistakenly) imagined. Nor had I exactly been aware... - clarkjohnsen 10:54:05 07/07/08 (2)
- If... - R Browne 21:31:31 07/11/08 (1)
- Saw it in London long ago. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:08:53 07/12/08 (0)
- This might answer your question to some degree - Analog Scott 10:01:29 07/07/08 (0)