@SsethTzeentach While I appreciate the release, I couldn't help but notice that there was a distinct lack of gay black harem mpreg in the actual video. Please do not use clickbait thumbnails if you're not going to deliver.
@RandySTG I think that's part of the issue. Before we had a more serious grounded MC and a comedic relief sidekick. Now it's just a comedic relief MC. Where's the grounded seriousness? If the MC can't even take their journey seriously, and no one else is, why should the audience?
Stories about Kubrick on the set fascinate me. It's obvious he was a dick, but he still had more than enough talent that he could get away with thinking of his cast and crew as tools he can just bang away with. I often wonder if his films would have changed if he wasn't an ass.
Kubrick made Malcolm McDowell wear actual surgical eye clamps for the brainwashing scene. McDowell scratched his cornea and went temporarily blind. By the time he got home, the anesthetic had worn off and he was banging his head against a wall from the pain.
Kubrick made him do it again five days later. When McDowell tried to negotiate a stand-in, Kubrick told him, “No, you’re known for your eyes.”
The doctor sitting next to him in that chair was a working eye surgeon from London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital, there to drip saline into McDowell’s eyes between takes so the corneas wouldn’t dry out. Kubrick refused to fake any of it. The screams in the final cut are real. He was in pain.
Earlier in production, Kubrick had been filming the home-invasion scene. Day five. He was bored. The choreography looked stiff. He turned to McDowell and asked, “Can you dance?”
McDowell started singing “Singin’ in the Rain.” It was the only song he half remembered the words to. Kubrick loved it so much he got in his car that afternoon and drove with McDowell to buy the rights. $10,000, around $82,000 today.
Gene Kelly never forgave it. Years later at a Hollywood party, someone tried to introduce them. Kelly turned his back and walked off. McDowell assumed it was because of the rape scene. He was wrong. Kelly’s widow eventually told him why: Warner Bros had never paid Kelly his royalty.
Adrienne Corri, who played the wife in that scene, was hit through 39 takes of one shot before McDowell finally broke and said, “I can’t hit her anymore.” For the shot where Alex jumps out of a window and the camera plummets toward the pavement, Kubrick packed a film camera lens-first in a wooden box and dropped it from a third-floor window. Six times. The camera survived every drop.
Anthony Burgess sold the film rights to his book in 1962 for $500 (around $5,400 today). The film cost $1.3 million to make. It grossed $114 million worldwide.
Then in 1973, Kubrick pulled it from UK cinemas. The official story was copycat crime. The truth, according to his widow Christiane: death threats arriving at the family home and protesters outside their gate. Kubrick personally owned the UK copyright. He kept the film locked away for 27 years.
He died in March 1999. By November 2000, the film was back in UK shops on VHS and DVD. A whole generation of British teenagers had grown up hearing about “the film you couldn’t see,” smuggling bootleg copies back from Amsterdam and paying inflated prices for grainy dubs. The home video editions just kept selling: a 2007 Blu-ray, a 40th anniversary set, a 2021 4K restoration. The ban Kubrick imposed for his own safety became the most effective marketing campaign of his career.
"B-but that part of the towel touched my b-b-balls!"
So? Didn't you just come out of the shower?
You telling me you didn't wash your balls in there?
You telling me they aren't as clean as anywhere else at that point?
Grow up.
@Enojadoland Idk if you've been on the Internet long, but there are DEFINITELY people who admire Pat Bateman and Homelander. Not just find them interesting, but full on admire and wish to emulate.
@MafiHalfFaceTwi Gotta disagree on WHF. In canon humanity is likely the strongest overall species as only they are technologically advancing.
As far as fanbase goes TWW shows that the Empire is the most popular by a large margin.
Heck, even Cathay and Kislev are played a lot.