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John Dahl<br />

A Clockwork Orange<br />

John Dahl’s life changed at a drive-in movie theater. How many of us can say<br />

that? Dahl discovered Stanley Kubrick’s apocalyptic morality tale A Clockwork<br />

Orange on a date, at a drive-in theater in Montana.<br />

He remembers being struck by “the desire for society to find some quick<br />

solution to violence and crime, to find treatment that would curb or stop<br />

that. If we could just sit somebody in a chair and weld their eyes open, and<br />

then all of a sudden they would be a model citizen. <strong>That</strong>’s a pretty powerful<br />

concept for a movie. I think it still is.”<br />

John Dahl, selected filmography:<br />

Red Rock West (1993)<br />

<strong>The</strong> Last Seduction (1994)<br />

Unforgettable (1996)<br />

Rounders (1998)<br />

Joy Ride (2001)<br />

<strong>The</strong> Great Raid (2005)<br />

You Kill Me (2007)<br />

A Clockwork Orange<br />

1971<br />

Directed by Stanley Kubrick<br />

Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates,<br />

Warren Clarke, and Adrienne Corri<br />

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