Why Kubrick decided to make A Clockwork Orange (1971) | MAKING FILM
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2018
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A Clockwork Orange is perhaps Stanley Kubrick’s most controversial film and one “highly praised” by the likes of Fellini, Bunuel, and Kurosawa as well as “educational, scientific, political, religious and even law-enforcement groups," but it was really supposed to be a small film sandwiched between two epics- those being the monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey and Kubrick’s white whale… Napoleon.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Sources:
Cinephilia & Beyond - ‘A Clockwork Orange’: Kubrick and Burgess’ Vision of the Modern World - bit.ly/2CAfI0o
The Old Ultra-Violence: A Clockwork Orange - January 30, 2018 Vincent LoBrutto
Bluray Commentary
Mind’s Eye: A Clockwork Orange - John Hofsess 1971
Kubrick Archives - Alison Castle
A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Turning Like Clockwork
Interviews About Stanley Kubrick, 1970s - Film 31534
GREAT BOLSHY YARBLOCKOS! Making A Clockwork Orange - Gary Leva
My Droog Hell by Gareth Grundy
Kubrick Exhibit Book
Masks of Violence by Marisa Buovolo
Kubrick New Perspectives
Excerpts From Rare Kubrick Interview By Siskel In 1972 - March 08, 1999
Interview with Stanley Kubrick regarding A Clockwork Orange by Philip Strick & Penelope Houston
Anthony Burgess and Malcom McDowell analysis Clockwork Orange - James MacAndrew
Clips:
Napoleon (1927 dir. Abel Gance)
Paths of Glory (1957 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Spartacus (1960 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange (1971 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Barry Lyndon (1975 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Shining (1980 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Full Metal Jacket (1987 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Music:
Epidemic Sound - Розваги
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Would've loved to see what a Stanley Kubrick film about Napoleon would've looked like. Clockwork Orange is still a great film by one of the greatest directors ever.
A cut of Napoleon is available for viewing on YT, FYI...enjoy. I thought the contrast between Steiger's over-the-top method acting and Plummer's understated portrayal of the Duke of Wellington was very engaging...
The closest we ever got to that was "Barry Lyndon".
I wish Kubrick would have made a western. Can you imagine a dark, brooding and gritty Kubrick-western?
Smooth Steve Did you know he started to make one, but got fired? ONE EYED JACKS, with Marlon Brando.
Jonathan Melia and one of the original versions of the screenplay(s) for the movie was written solely by Sam Peckinpah. Though I’m sure Kubrick would have made his own changes anyway what a combination that would have been
Chex The Criterion Edition of One Eyed Jacks!!Great&Funny stuff on Stanley's involvement b4 Marlon took over direction.
It would've been great if he adapted Blood Meridian into a movie
Letitia Boyd Jeez Louise, that took me about a month to finish! I heard Ridley Scott wanted to do it at some point....It’s so self-consciously “written”, though, it’s as if it’s defying any attempt to film it. The only western I’ve seen that comes close to the spirit of that book is the Australian pic THE PROPOSITION.
I am from the alternate universe where Kubrick made Napoleon! It's a great film.
Let me guess...starring the then-30 year old **DANNY DEVITO**, right?...lol
Aren't you lucky wonder how Kubrick would had alot of movies Religious epic action Comedy etc.
While that does sound awesome, keep in in mind that if Kubrick had made his Napoleon project, he probably wouldn't have made Barry Lyndon.
@@samcostello2861 why couldn't he had done both?
@@Thespeedrap Ah, that would have been great. Still, I don't think it would have happened. Looking at Kubrick's plans for his projected Napoleon project, the approach to the story was too similar to the film that became Barry Lyndon. Doing another film just like it would have been derivative.
A clockwork orange, is one of these movies you mustn't miss, for me Kubrick's best masterpiece
Kubrick is the best director of all time.
I have to disagree: Scorsese, Tarkovski, Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Hitchcock...
And these are only the first names who comes to my mind
Also disagree, top 3 are: Cronenberg, Kubrick, Lynch
Yes he was
@@moonboogien8908 Wait...what? Cronenberg? To each his own.
@@moonboogien8908 also disagree. Top 3 are Hitchcock, Kubrick and Tarantino
From what I heard, Kubrick first read A Clockwork Orange around the time of Lolita and didn't like it. It was Terry Southern, while working on Dr. Strangelove that clued Stan into the hippie movement, and his vision for Candy as a movie. Stan thought it propoustorous any major studio would back such a film after the flack he got for Lolita. And like you said, MGM was none to happy with 2001, and WB wanted Stan exclusively. But WB also wanted that youth market Corman and BBS were tapping into. So Stan took it to the hilt, and WB also had an axe to grind with Jack Warner. And don't forget Robert Evan's at Paramount was also shaking the foundation. So it was just the right chemistry at the time that bred A Clockwork Orange. If not for Terry Southern, Charles Manson, Paramount, MPAA, and Richard Nixon, I don't think Stan would've considered making it. And then so naive after with what he had done.
A cinema tyler video about kubrick?? Who could ask for more??.
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The master
This was very interesting. Good job my dude.
Kubrick is my greatest inspiration for wanting to direct and it started with this and dr strangelove
"Get a camera and film" Stanley Kubrick
My God, if only Kubrick had made Napoleon. The greatest film never made.
Mishta Romaniello i swear to God, it would have been fascinating to see how would involve the world of big finance and central banking, & maybe even getting into Rothschild insider trading around Waterloo & the occult conspiracy that led to the French revolution
Although, Waterloo is hardly an unworthy replacement. The battle scenes are incredible.
I wonder how similar would it have been to Barry Lyndon? It's set a bit earlier and with a character in a very different position, but still dealt with the same general era and background of warring European powers.
More than likely the cinematic elements Kubrick used for Barry Lyndon were to be implemented into Napoleon, but maybe just on a far larger scale.
Yeah, that's what I imagine; that he would have used the same type of lenses famously got from NASA to shoot in candlelight, and probably the battle scenes would be like in Barry Lyndon just far more epic and a lot more of it throughout the film.
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Thy shall be credited
I fancy this piece, even with a deng fee to the sinny den. I bid viddy well to you all, my droogs.
Viddy well my Droogy !
Barry Lyndon contains so many of the elements that would have been in the unmade Napoleon .
Would have been amazing.
It’s so weird to hear that KUBRICK struggled with getting funds for his films.
Indeed, I think about that too... Scorsese didn't have half the trouble with his 150-million returnless "Silence".
@@Daniel-Rosa. Scorsese spent his whole career trying to get silence made.. but yea more of a copyright issue
Yeah, you know the reality Zach. That is as true as "Nolan waited ten years to make Inception". They didn't, and were busy working on equally pationate stuff. But they still got their 100mi+ budgets in the end, that Kubrick did not! Why?
This is not unique for any great artist in the midst of their careers. Stanley Kubrick was not the KUBRICK that we think of now even with the reasonable success of many of his early films. As stated by CinemaTyler the studio were in bad financial straights upon the proposal of Napoleonand the density of Kubrick's films still did not always translate to guaranteed profits for the studios backing him. Yes we as film fans can wonder how can you not support an artist like Stanley Kubrick but it's very different for the bean counters in the movie industry.
Yes, you’d think people would see genius and say, “hey this is great!”
But that’s not how the world has historically related to genius.
You saved my weekend,
thank you sir!
Love your videos, especially the ones on Kubrick. The quality and clear effort you put into them is amazing.
So glad CinemaTyler is back with another video.
Another great video! I really admire how you give all your sources. Most UA-camrs of this genre don't seem to care about sources anymore. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! It takes a lot of time to cite them all in the captions, so I really appreciate your comment!
Tyler, great work as always. I really appreciate these.
You don't need a high budget to produce a masterpiece, all you need is supreme talent and a unique vision to create something unique. Just look at Ridley Scott's the Duelists, he had no money and produced once of the most visually striking pieces of cinema to date. He used actual locations and natural light...didn't have to waste money constructing things and using expensive camera techniques etc
my mind was blown when i found out how low the budget for the duellists was.
Similar to badlands
When I watch A Clockwork Orange I feel like I am actually there in the movie if that makes any sense. Out of body experience.
You were there alright.
Great interesting video as always, Tyler!
Tyler, thanks for returning to the informative, straight-forward narration that you'd first used to get my attention.
Wow, I never dug out the rolling stones-droogies relation, now it seems obvious to me, alex clearly looked like young Mick Jagger, very nice.
That is so interesting that The Stones were thought by Burgess because Mick Jagger looked the part, because I always thought that Malcolm McDowell looked like McJagger.
I cannot express enough how brilliant of an artist Kubrick is. The more you learn about his movies, the deeper the movies get. Just an amazing body of work.
Even one of his movies would have made him a great movie maker/director, but he made a historical movie, a sci-fi movie, a horror movie, a comedy, a relationship drama, a war movie.... all A+
@Da Dole99 I say Kubrick is a film maker.
Thanks Tyler, great video.
Never once considered the budget as a factor.
Yah, Kubrick was actually asked by The Beatles to make The Lord Of The Rings with them starring in it.
Kubrick said that an epic of such scale would be too expensive to be realistic- at the time this technology was rather young.
Thanks for this. Clockwork is my favorite film
Good video, my brother. Now going back to the old “in out, in out”
Thank you, really well done. I enjoy your commentaries immensely
A Clockwork Orange does not take place in the future - according to Burgess (paraphrasing) 'you can look at this way if you like, but I always thought of it as taking place in the current time with not as much of a change to the past than you would assume is required'. Also, there are fake newspapers used in the film and all of them have the year being roughly around when the movie came out (or there about, possibly not far in the future).
well there was quite an argument between Burgess and Kubrick,during, and after the film production, I read a late work of essays by burgess where he clearly despise what have been done of his book, and one biography i've also read about kubrick confirm this fact. So quoting burgess is kinda irrelevant, because the film is kubrick interpretation and have a lot of changes, IIRC kubrick relate the film is happening during late 80's 90''s.. So, in the the future.
But you're right, not very far from when it was filmed.
if the story is not set in the future, why are there STILL no signs of thugs going about in such bizarre dress, or no outlandish milk bars anywhere in sight?
Just to correct something in this video, the clockwork orange movie never said it was in the future. There is actually multiple evidance such as the date on the news paper close up that the entire movie takes place the year after the moon landing. Just because the atmosphere looks differant does not mean its the future. This is very important to the true meaning of what the movie is trying to express.
"Men on the moon"
I was 17 when it was released,I was little obsessed with the film and music score , even wore the gear for a short while ,right down to the eyelash
You've done an amazing work. I watched all your videos in a few days. What you are doing here is better than any filmschool, I will be happy to share your videos as much as I can
Thanks so much!
On Jon Stewart's older show, Malcom McDowell was a guest and said he hadn't seen the film in decades and it came on the tv in a hotel in LA and he and some friends started watching it. Halfway through he went to the kitchen and in the glass door to the balcony he saw his reflection- and for a moment though Alex was standing there. McDowell was a regular on that show and very entertaining.
Yes another Kubrick video. Keep it up!
Amazing work! Very insightful
You failed to mention the main reason Kubrick shelved his 'Napoleon project'... The film, Waterloo, was in production at the time; and was a commercial failure upon release. He thought that the subject was covered (noting it's failure and not wanting to repeat with his own) and so moved on to other things.
*EDIT:* Looks like Spielberg is working on Kubrick's screenplay - series, not film.
Spielberg Goes To War With "Napoleon"
8th August 2018
by Michael Stevens SneakPeek
With many big-budget film-makers comparing themselves to military generals, in charge of thousands of people working on a single campaign, director Steven Spielberg continues to develop writer/director Stanley Kubrick's anti-war "Napoleon" project as a TV mini-series.
"I’ve been developing Stanley Kubrick's screenplay," said Spielberg, "for a miniseries, not for a motion picture - about the life of Napoleon. Kubrick wrote the script in 1961...a long time ago."
Apparently Cary Fukunaga is also working on the project with Spielberg as a director.
Edit: I was a bit unclear, Fukunaga is the director.
Unless someone shot cutless documentary of Spielberg studying Napoleon like Kubrick, I won't believe it has any chance to even come close to the quality of "Kubrick". Attitude wise, I am sad to conclude that Kubrick was unique.
PA TV Iol wrong. He never gave up the project, the backers fell out
ET is hack garbage for people that do not understand the true power of film as art.
& Fukunaga is Attached As the Director.
Thanks Tyler, great video!
I'm so happy I found this channel.
Extremely interesting, thank you so much Tyler :-)
I knew most of that, and still was interested. Well done.
No dislikes??
You must have pleased the Internet. 😊
Great video
I think you should make a video on Napoleon. Something that goes further than what you went through in this video.
This is amazing! I can’t wait to see the next installment
Arthur C. Clarke gave Kubrick a copy of "A Clockwork Orange" during the making of 2001. However, it was an American edition, which deleted the final chapter of the original British edition. That is why the end is cut short, & is a reason Burgess didn't like the film (that & the fact that Kubrick had bought the rights anonymously for $5K, far less than he would have had to pay with his name on the check).
the last chapter was trash, good thing kubrick didnt make that
What happened in the last chapter?
Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around..
hifrom mike And he has a son and he worries that he’ll inherit his tendencies for ultraviolence.
Clockwork Orange is a Christian novel like most of Burgesses' other work. The main point of the film is about good and evil in a moral sense, as the priest says after Alex's treatments "He has no choice". Alex isn't good because he can't be evil, the last chapter muddies that point to it's detriment.
Great work!
Still yet to sit down and experience a clockwork orange only Kubrick film I have left to watch looking forward to it. Love your videos bro u a legend keep it up
You’ve got to be kidding me, Tyler. Awesome video.
What's the Jazz you're playing at the end of the vid - cheers :)
The historical (at least in terms of setting) movie I would have loved Kubrick to make was Perfume by Patrick Suskind. I read that novel not long after it was published in English, and I will never, ever forget it. It's a work of extreme brilliance that the inevitable, anodyne, irrelevant movie treatment, about 20 years later, almost totally failed to capture.
Kubrick would have made the historical context the star of his movie (think Barry Lyndon with a stench) and deeply understood the anarchic - and hilarious - view of human vanity, venal perfidy and upside-down moral hypocrisy at the novel's core (think Clockwork Orange in costumes smeared with excrement and then sprayed with cologne).
Of all the novels I can think of with enough richness and texture that would have been appreciated, comprehended and then transformed by the only true auteur with the reputation, and the resources that would be needed at his command to carry it off, it's that one. There are dozens of novels that I give what I call the "Kubrick Test". The Regeneration Trilogy (Paths of Glory with an inner life), for instance, or Foucault's Pendulum (the titanic work the plagiarist and totally incompetent writer Dan Brown stole his mishmash of plots from). Whatever the novel, I'm sure we all do the Kubrick Test from time to time.
But I always come back to Perfume. It's the one that leaves me with the most profound sense of regret.
I would be very interested to hear from other Kubrick admirers of other examples of novels that they think might have passed the test.
Kubrick apparently did want to adapt Foucault's pendulum and gravity's rainbow
I enjoyed this video very much. Thank You.
Why does nobody mention the 2001 album in the record store in a clockwork orange?
What are talking about man, it gets mentioned all the time
WE NEED PART 2, IS A VERY GREAT VIDEO, AND A INTERESTING MOVIE, AN ALSO CONGRATULATION, YOUR VIDEO IS SO GREAT.
Great video!
Hitchcock, after making his most expensive film, "North by Northwest", also wanted to prove something, and did so with "Psycho".
The shape of HAL's eye is echoed in Clockwork Orange on Alex's bedroom door.
Kubrick wanted to show he could make a film which had a low budget? Reminds me of Hitchcock making "Psycho", which was also done on a low budget (~$800K) and yet was phenomenally successful ($32M).
Hey, do a video analysis on the similarities between holy motors and man with the movie camera
Great work, thank you
Wendy Carlos - Clockwork theme
Cage - Agent Orange.
Henry Purcell - Funeral March for Queen Mary.
Abel Gance’s Napoleon is terrific
Great stuff!! Such a shame we’ll never see kubricks napoleon!
Nice piece, Tyler.
You resisted the urge to call us your dear droogies and use all that real horrorshow slang that vibrates our gutty-whats.
Excellent video! I could have watched about an hour more of it!
This was a very evaluative video! Sometimes geniuses can be knuckle heads!
Excellent video. 7 meaty minutes interesting to the end.
I think you're big Kubrick fan . I consider him to be my cinematic pole star.
thanks Tyler
Great. Can't wait for the next one. Personally, I always felt, based on the reference to space, that "Clockwork" took place in the same universe and perhaps at the same time as "2001".
Keep up your good work.
Its crazy how many tie ins, hidden messages and easter eggs exist in kubrick movies
Eyes Wide Shut is a great example. There's a great vid I saw here on You Tube that delves so deep into the hidden messages in that film that you almost feel embarrassed that you didn't spot them. I don't believe it was a Tyler film however it even suggests that Kubrick was outing a lot of the pedofilia and sexual deviancy that exists amongst the rich and powerful. With what's happening lately with Jeffrey Epstein you wonder what's fiction and what's real. Kubrick himself always believed that you should stay away from powerful people.
wheres the picture from at 01:13. Purple looking out at the ocean?! actually exactly at 01:14*
Spielberg Goes To War With "Napoleon"
8th August 2018
by Michael Stevens
SneakPeek
With many big-budget film-makers comparing themselves to military generals, in charge of thousands of people working on a single campaign, director Steven Spielberg continues to develop writer/director Stanley Kubrick's anti-war "Napoleon" project as a TV mini-series.
"I’ve been developing Stanley Kubrick's screenplay," said Spielberg, "for a miniseries, not for a motion picture - about the life of Napoleon. Kubrick wrote the script in 1961...a long time ago."
THANK U .TY.
Great video! Didn't Malcolm get the role of Caligula based on the scenes of him fantasising about the ' saucier ' parts of the Bible? Anyone know where I can viddy 2001 free? Sadly, I've not seen it yet...
A Clockwork Orange is my favorite film of all time
If This is start of new Serie Kubrick "making of Clockwork Orange"
YES, YES, YES, MORE, MORE, MORE
oh by the way, thanks for new information about the Film, never knew that Kubrick hat "Eyes wide Shut" in his mind since 1971
Michel Van He seriously considered it again after finishing The Shining, as a small art house black and white film starring Woody Allen, if you can believe that. But it all fell through when Kubrick felt decent script couldn’t be written
i don't think you mentioned this but, there was actually an adaptation before kubrick's; andy warhol's vinyl
I'd like to visit an alternative universe, where "Napoleon" was made, along with Wellse's "Heart of Darkness" (instead of "Kane")
and Hitccock's "Kaleidoscope".
@Da Dole99 We don't know how great "Heart of Darkness" would have been. "Kane" could have come later.
Well done, brilliant!
You should make a video on Brazil
I WAS CURED ALLRIGHT
Because it's one of his best movies.
Thanks for watching? Thanks for making!
By the time I saw Clockwork Orange it was set in the present.
Tyler at his best - Kubrick!
I always thought that he couldve made Fahrenheit 451 as well
This movie shocked me. Had no idea what I was getting into lol.
Clockwork Orange evil savage it's perfect. It gripping amazing you never will forget it
a clockwork orange isn’t even set in the future though, you can find dates that say 1972 in newspapers
With how many times you referenced 2001 im surprised you didnt note on the fact theres a physical copy of 2001 in the movie clockwork orange
What exactly made Kubrick's style
Can't quite put it to words
It’s bizarre to think that any studio would’ve said no to Kubrick after 2001.
Never seen a great historical film? Check out Ken Russels the Devils, its an, admittedly loose in parts, adaptation of the Aldous Huxley non fictional historical account, The Devils of Loudon. Probably not for everyone but its absolutely superb on every level
5:30 - that first moon bit wasn't in the film, just the book.
Unfortunately, instead of Napoleon, we got Barry Lyndon.
Still a good movie though.
It felt good to hit that subscribe button of yours.
Thanks!
thanks buddy
If you haven't seen A ClockWork Orange on mushrooms then you haven't seen it. lol
Would have loved to see Napoleon. Waterloo was great.