Theories: Copy Cat Theory

This is the original traier for the film 'A Clockwork Orange' that I found on youtube.




Copy Cat Theory = Copycat crimes are criminal acts that are modeled on previous crimes that have been reported in the media. A film that sparked many copy cat violent killings and attacks was 'A Clockwork Orange'. The Director bannded his own film because of these events.

• Clockwork Orange was released in British cinemas in 1971 with an X rating. It got four Oscar nominations.
• It was adapted from Anthony Burgess’s novel written in the invented street slang Nadsat.
• The film’s violent scenes sparked copycat attacks. In one, a 17-year-old Dutch girl was raped in Lancashire by a gang chanting Singin’ in the Rain.
• In another a child was beaten by a 16-year-old boy wearing white overalls, black bowler hat and boots.
• Stanley Kubrick, the film’s director, voluntarily withdrew the film from British cinemas in 1973.
• After the director’s death in 1999, the film was re-released in Britain.
• Channel 4’s screening of it in 2002 was its first on British mainstream TV.
• In 2003 Peter Foster, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, received two life sentences for murders 13 years apart; the murders were said to replicate the film’s attacks.

This is one of the articles I have read about these Clockwork Orange copy cat events: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article782393.ece