The Warped Ones films whose outlook made way for the Japanese pink film. In the film Tim Lucas noted antecedents and a possible influence to "the most hellbent characters" in the films of acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino's films and specifically to Stanley Kubrick's iconic "A Clockwork Orange" (1971). Lucas drew comparisons between "The Warped Ones"<nowiki>'</nowiki> main character Akira and "A Clockwork Orange"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Alex DeLarge, including their respective obsessions with hard jazz and the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, the former with a framed copy of Ornette Coleman's album "The Shape of Jazz to Come" next to his bed, the latter an engraving of
A Clockwork Orange (film) that the film was theatrically re-released and made available on VHS and DVD. On 4 July 2001, the uncut version premiered on Sky TV's "Sky Box Office," where it ran until mid-September. Kubrick's film is relatively faithful to the Burgess novel, omitting only the final, positive chapter, in which Alex matures and outgrows sociopathy. While the film ends with Alex being offered an open-ended government job, implying he remains a sociopath at heart, the novel ends with Alex's positive change in character. This plot discrepancy occurred because Kubrick based his screenplay on the novel's American edition, in which the final