Why did Kubrick want to prevent A Clockwork Orange being re-issued in the UK?

I must take issue with the belief that Stanley fought to keep A Clockwork Orange from being re-issued. It was possible to see A Clockwork Orange anywhere else in the world except the UK. The reason being, NOT that he thought the wrong people were seeing the film, but that SOME people were threatening his and our lives.

The film was not removed from the cinema circuits, it had finished it's natural run. He asked WB's to withdraw it, because the police had told him to take the death threats seriously. It was really only when they (some independant cinemas) wanted to show it again, that it was realized that Stanley had withdrawn it, thus starting a media feeding frenzy.

The British press and government took exception to the film, as a convenient way of blaming the then state of things in the country on an easy target. 6.6/ Apart from 2001 we're you or your sisters in any other films of your father's? I did a walk on in A Clockwork Orange, way in the back of the record shop.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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