A time comes when the groups that like clockwork appear around the shed have stopped appearing like clockwork around the shed.
Then, just like clockwork, the moment we started to unpack, the mechanicals began to go.
The film's connections with Stanley Kubrick also make for an bizarre little sideshow: not only is there a 2001: A Space Odyssey reference in there, but Buxton is made to sound, in Thompson's voiceover, exactly like Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange.
Moore's Law drove the train of successes and profits for our industry, enabling the launch of successive "next gen" platforms like clockwork, with almost exactly 10x RAM and 10x graphic power, every 5-6 years from 1981 to 2006.
Apart from Switzerland it ran like clockwork, which was exactly the plan.
"You need to make sure you get your detail nailed on before you go out and you know what lines you are running, you need to know where you are supposed to be, so as soon as you are in the pitch you know exactly what is happening and everything runs like clockwork".
I came up with a lot of terms for "Danger Days" that didn't necessarily exist; I wanted it to feel exactly like the first pages of "Clockwork Orange".
' Everything to me- for me - was explained explicitly before and I was told what to expect, so by the time I went in for the biopsy, I knew exactly what was going to happen…so everything worked like clockwork you know.' (B51) ' The staff in the hospital I had the biopsy, they explained all this to me.
' Everything to me- for me - was explained explicitly before and I was told what to expect, so by the time I went in for the biopsy, I knew exactly what was going to happen…so everything worked like clockwork you know.' (B51) Men suggested that pre-biopsy information they received had been too conservative regarding the range of experience they should have expected.
