When I first went to Hollywood I was in a book store in Santa -Monica and a man came walking towards me dressed almost exactly like myself and as he made eye contact with me with a little grin as he clearly noticed it too and I realised it was Malcolm Mcdowell. as we got closer I said ''Hi, hi ,hi my droogy'' which made him laugh we had a great conversation about the film and his car collection. He was a really nice fellow.
Man, the way Michael Bates delivers the line "Are you now or have you ever been a homosexual?" Still makes me crack up after more than 30 years of watching Clockwork. Amazing character actor.
@ctdtfiveoupNup Absolutely, it's very subtle ("the love that dare not speak its name"). Then of course he goes on to look up Alex's kiester with that phallic flashlight in his mouth. ;)
Just love, love, love Tyler's videos. With the research Tyler does into a director's work and the film making process, I find it incredibly insightful and can't wait for the next video to drop. I'm also impressed by the way he edits his videos. Keep up the good work Tyler.
I've been meaning to the book for a while now, both versions in fact. When you mentioned Kubrick's unique script I had to pause the video to go find it. I can't wait to experience the script as he wrote it. Cool video, man.
Most of the world didn't watch the movie but most of those who read the book did and they understood because there's a glossary at the back of the book. The presence of the glossary clearly indicates that the words were meant to be understood. Also, due the publicity at the time of its release, many who went to see the movie also understood even if they hadn't read the book. So most of the original audience understood and those who didn't could quickly guess the meaning of the few words they didn't know.
A few inaccuracies here and there (like McDowell coming up with Alex's last name when it's in fact inspired by a fantasy Alex has in the novel in which he compares himself to the Greek conqueror Alexander The Great, tweaking it to declare himself Alexander The Large, or the last chapter that doesn't actually show Alex's rehabilitation, but rather describes a mirror scene from the beginning of the novel with Alex, accompanied with new droogs, feeling bored and unsatisfied with this cycle of violence and meeting his old droog Pete who started a family, which inspires Alex to do the same) but overall, fantastic video. You've earned a sub.
Ive been waiting for this, you are a hero Tyler! great work! Regarding the commetary on voice over at 03:22, its Robert Mckee who said it and its BULLSHIT! i mean Charlie Kaufman made fun of it in Adaptation, you use voice over depending of what you want to say and how your story is constructed.
This remains one of my favorite books to go back and read every few years--difficult and challenging, yes, but every time I catch something new and hilarious. The screenplay (understandably) left out some of the best squirmy parts, but a brilliant adaptation overall.
Funny how seriously Kubrick took the book when it was something Burgess pumped out high speed to pay the bills. Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything.
I believe Burgess was given a few months to live by some erroneous diagnostic which inspired him to write this. He wrote it under the pression of dying.
@Carlos Saraiva The first part was a very good point. The second wildly misinterpreted the OP's point - _"Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything._" That's certainly not justifying laziness, it's saying you might end up doing your best work when you're _not_ inspired and producing what you think to be your magnum opus - so don't wait for those perfect conditions and just write because you must. I'm confused by the complete inversion and all the upvotes!
@@awkwardoddysee4438 "I really watched this thing with great interest." That's how it's intended to be understood. If you read the novel, it won't take long to understand it another way.
Awesome content, Tyler! You should consider making a video on 'Fear and Desire'. It would be interesting to see an in depth analysis on Kubricks first film, the mindset he was in, the process, and how it connects to his later work. Again, great work as always!
3:02 reminds me of Orson Welles' response to the claim the narration in Ambersons was uncinematic: "I think words are very important in talking pictures."
I know Kubrick has caught a lot of grief from other authors whose books he helped adapt to the big screen, but work has always been incredible with an audience. Having read the book years after seeing the movie, I was very impressed how well it represented Burgess’s work. Though I did like the ending published in the European version, it’s absence was truly a better conclusion to the story. Being so dark, it really makes you feel like you have gone through the Ludivico treatment.
I read somewhere that "Alex DeLarge", though an obvious joke, is partly inspired by a scene in the book where Alex, in prison, gives that as his name after being asked that. Because Alex has no surname in the book, the author used Alex's sarcasm to its fullest extant.
When I heard that "the story of Clockword Orange could not have been told like 2001" (2:51) I had to imagine Alex and his gang on the moon in their usual attire beating up the monolith. The scene where Alex and his gang walk towards that old bum in the tunnel (5:19) actually reminds of the scene in 2001 on the moon when the astronauts walk down towards the monolith, lights and shadows, but no lens flares if I remember correctly. In any case, despite of all the violence in Clockwork Orange, 2001 feels more intense to me, and somehow magnetic, memorable in a way that I find myself projecting images and sounds of the movie into my usual everyday surroundings, like when my own breathing becomes one in my mind with the breathing of the astronauts on the Jupiter mission. Or when I see the monolith in a doorway in my apartment when it's dark. It's rather scary, but also inspiring.
I saw this movie when I was 12. I had never seen a film that challenged me before. I felt like, “This means something....what is this movie trying to say?” I caught it late at night, on HBO or Cinemax....well past my bedtime. P’s were asleep, and I just couldn’t look away. I immediately found when it would be on again, and set the old VHS to record. I was at the library for an acting class I was taking right around that time, and thought I’d look up the movie to see if there were any books about it. This was pre-internet, so libraries were required for answers. I was surprised to find a novel. One copy, worn out to shit......rebound with that thick plasticky contact tape that they put on the books that were falling apart. I checked it out, and devoured it in a couple of days. I decided to see if Burgess had other books, and he sure did. I read whatever I could get. I then thought, well if that author wrote other books, I wonder if that director has made other films. I then found Stanley Kubrick’s name, unaware that he did The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, which I’d already seen. Thats all it takes. One really good piece of art, something my parents would have likely preferred I not watch, to send a 12 year old on a scavenger hunt for books and movies. I remember begging my mom to drive me 35 minutes away to rent Barry Lyndon, as none of the local video stores had it. Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker, its not even close. He set a standard that a handful aspire to, but nobody has yet to achieve IMO. Burgess has MANY books, and if you like this one, while it is probably his best work, his others are worth reading also. Very edgy stuff, especially considering the time period.
Super late to comment on this. Great analysis btw. In this movie, the idea of a voice-over is Alecs voice is his subjective experience against what we see. In the entire move these correspond, but the ending quote "I was cured alright", we realized a lot. I would say this is one of cinemas greatest moment, and without the narrator voice this wouldn't have worked
Thought about the shining video and how the takes that were often used were a ton of takes in. The actors making more interesting choices. You really see that when the old man hears Alex singing.
I have great respect for you and appreciate the insight you give me into some of my favorite films and filmmakers, but nothing is "more unique." Nothing can be more "one of a kind." Carry on.
Thanks for all your videos, they've opened my eyes to some wonderful details about these films. You say that 2001 was mostly non verbal whereas A Clockwork Orange is a story that depends on voiced thoughts by the main character. 2001 uses silence or minimal sound, until the most tense moment in the film. The most important lines in the film (or book) are by HAL when he tries to deter Dave from de-activating him. The conversation based on childhood experiences and feelings makes it all that more important. I suppose the take-away from this is that Kubrick knew exactly when to you speech and when not to. Could you ever do a video about Baz Lhurmann? I never hear people praise him, yet his use of close ups in Strictly Ballroom to make the viewer feel disgust with the characters and the use of modern imagery to make Romeo and Juliet accessible to a modern audience despite the Shakesperean script have always impressed me
17:00 while the end to the film is "appropriate" (considering that it _is_ a hardcore satire), the British novel's end was in no way a "happy ending." In fact, I see it as Burgess giving Alex a typically cynical "70's ending", as he becomes one more cog in the wheel of society, as he outgrows and becomes bored with his anarchy (hence the "clockwork orange", ie a vending machine that consistently spits out fruit for consumption and disposal). Throughout the movie, all of the characters (including the police and politicians) are looking for meaning and purpose... while in the end, things ebb and flow but still remain the same - the police will always be the police (and abuse their power).. the politicians will always be politicians (and divert blame onto others and keep their power) and the disaffected youth will continue to waste their lives.
Am I the only one who remembers DeLarge being in the book? It says at 18:10 that Malcolm McDowell came up with it, but I feel like in the book when Alex is with the two young girls towards the beginning, he tells them why he’s called DeLarge. I haven’t read A Clockwork Orange in a really long time though so I could be wrong
The novel itself was based on a controversy that occurred in Italy in the 60s with the US army during the cold war. Thomas Narut was the whistleblower, he was in the Navy I forgot, and the guy was like a high ranking officer lieutenant like an old man who's still in the military cause he's that high ranking. He came out with all this information about the United States actually trying to do what we see in Clockwork Orange's "re-education" scenes, on American soldiers, who were handpicked for their volatile and antisocial nature, to turn them into disposable assassins who could be "activated" remotely to kill people. It obviously didn't really work as they had hoped. It was during the heyday of all the psych work that Bernaise and Freud were injecting into all of American culture through the methods discussed in BBC's "A Century of the Self". You can read the newspaper clippings at the Internet Archive just google "Assassination Navy Archive" and look for the IA link
Thanks...enjoyed the video! Could you possibly point to more info on Kubrick using computer word processing for this script...does not surprise me that he would be a very early adopter of cutting edge technology. Cheers!
I kind of was hooked on horror movie magazines back in the 70s. Interestingly the mags seemed to adopt A Clockwork Orange as a horror movie. Which I suppose, in a way, it is.
@Cinema Tyler 00:37 How do you think that compares with today when good filmmakers don't matter much anymore because studios have bypassed the need for reliance on artists and have combined sophisticated statistical analysis models with economic decisions (read Relativity Media and Netflix CEO's interviews on this subject) to make sure they don't lose money on films anymore. Marketing blitz, opening week blitz, social media, franchises and sequels. They've finally hit upon a perpetual money-making model. These have made sure that even if filmmakers and writers today want to have artistic freedom with a commercial angle, they seem to be either not happening or they're going under my radar. Some have said that the current economic situation is not allowing many young filmmakers to do this anymore, because studios are run by MBA executives and business analysis graduates. Whereas back until the 60s and 70s studios used to be headed by men like Robert 0'Brien(MGM) and Robert Evans who were more or less movie lovers themselves and allowed artists a good degree of freedom. What do you think is big picture?
A key difference between the novel and the film is the nature of Alex's conditioning. In the novel, he is conditioned to react against the image in his mind. Kubrick's film portrays Alex as affected only when he is involved in the action itself (as perpetrator or victim), so he can picture whatever he wants in his mind, as the final images attest.
I love your videos, great work! But I don't understand, you said that Kubrick made up the line of selling magazines in the cat lady scene on the spot, but if you read the script at 7.34 it's written there?
I don't understand how that's supposed to be conflicting. Kubrick invented the line as opposed to it being taken from the novel. The line is on the script, but not on the novel.
By the way, I've read recently "Traumnovelle" (in English "Rhapsody : a Dream Novel"), the litterary source for "Eyes Wide Shut". I strongly recommend it to Kubrick fans! Amazing how closely Kubrick sticked to the book, to the point that in some scenes I could almost feel the author's narration behind the non-verbal acting of the film's characters. And Ziegler's monologue around the pool table comes streight from the book, yet his character wasn't in the book, as well as the OD-ed model, created obviously to enforce Cruise's character's link with the girl. Amusing to see that in the beginning of the 20th Century Schnitzler described a very cosmopolite Vienna, very close to New York in "Eyes Wide Shut"... Although the foreign man at the bal in the beginning is described with a Polish accent and the owner of the costume rental an Austrian gentleman, Kubrick replaced them with a Hungarian and a Serbian, a tribute to the diversity of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Um, "eggy-weggs" was already in the book, several times. I'm certain of this because I just recently reread it. I would be curious what slang was, in fact, new in the film. I guess I will need to vid it again, heh. Thanks for all your work. :)
Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" has launched a very strong chain reaction that contributed to change my life, I'm not even exagerating! After viddying the Kubrick's Sinny I've searched the old kneega in my mother Frantsoozsky yahzeek, a really horrorshow translation that made me want to read it the original Nadsat, then Burgess' invention helped me learning Russian, and - voilà ! I live for seven years in Moscow, happily married, with two Russian-French malchiks!
So as far as ACO goes, the book is very close to the movie. Barry Lindon I am not sure but would suspect the same. Kubrick said he is a horrible writer but a good rewriter. Makes sense he wrote ACO script.
Pretty much like the book if you ask me. Sidenote - me and a mate had a big fight alongside sone clockwork orange look-a-likes camping out in an English holiday town, they were a little intimidated. Ha!
So anyone who hasn't read the book should definitely read it along with the last (British ending) chapter. The last chapter is nothing like what is usually described. Perhaps it's because I watched the movie for the first time when I was around Alex's age at the beginning of the book, and read the book when I was at Alex's age at the end of the book, but I was profoundly affected by it. Even now in my 40s I would urge all teenagers and young adults to read it, the entire thing, because it communicates something most adults (especially parents) consistently try to say and usually end up failing.
I have a copy of the book with a dictionary at the back, with all the lingo its the one where you can see half a man's face with chains going across it.
I read an early draft of 2001 that was all dialogue. Somewhere between that draft and the shooting of the film Kubrick realized the dialogue was unnecessary. As I remember the last chapter of Clockwork Orange, Alex is back at a bar ten years later, having naturally grown out of his wayward and violent tendencies. He's observing a group of of youths acting as he'd once done himself. We can argue over the meaning of the ending (State intervention in human development to produce citizens who operate like "Clockwork" vs natural maturation and learning that violence ultimately does not serve either the individual or society). I certainly don't see that as "tacked on" and is a topic of ongoing and continued heated debate.
I like your analysis, but that music is very distracting. I saw the movie years before I read the book, and the version of the book I read was the English first edition, which had the 21st chapter but no glossary. But I was able to understand the slang mostly from the context. I read that Burgess organized the novel to have 3 parts with 7 chapters each, so it seems unlikely that any publisher convinced him to add a more positive ending. If fact, he seems rightly annoyed that American publishers cut it. But I agree with Kubrick that the original positive ending doesn't ring true to the arc of the novel.
Doesn't ring true to the arc of the novel? The arc of the novel is Alex's character arc. That arc ends with Alex maturing. To me, it's really what makes ACO a classic. It's what makes it a truly important piece of fiction. I'll never understand why Kubrick or American publishers didn't include the last chapter.
It doesn't ring true because it's utter bullshit. No psychopathic killers (or damn few, anyway) just wake up one morning and say, "Oh, it's my 21st birthday. I'm tired of doing those things now."
Kubrick himself stated otherwise. In interviews he plainly called Alex not only evil, but knowingly evil. Alex most certainly WAS a killer (the cat lady), and as a matter of fact, was even more of a killer in the book, if anything. Also, if you notice, later in the film two of his droogs (now policeman) had the numbers 665 and 667 on their uniforms. Since these two droogs walked on either side of Alex in several scenes, that would mean his "number" would be 666 if and when (probably when) he become co-opted by the state as they were. So, clearly, Alex is being equated with evil. However, for Kubrick, it is likely that he found those in power just as evil (though perhaps less honest about it), since they cynically use these type of people for their own political ends when convenient. Also, saying "it's a fictional story, not a documentary" is a cop out and doesn't give Kubrick enough credit as a serious artist trying to face the nature of reality.
@@christophermacintyre5890 The point of the story is that Alex is capable of maturity because maturity happens naturally. Even if he was an "evil" person before, he has the capacity to grow and change, not because of some convoluted state sanctioned brain washing, but just by the simple process of growing older and having more experiences and watching those around you also grow. That all felt very believable in the book. The movie has a cynical ending that stands in direct contrast to the conclusion in the book that the entire story had been building up to. I thought the resolution came when Alex sees that the last droog has a family and is capable of having a normal life. That was a hella satisfying. When I say "it's only fiction" I mean, it's not a scientific analysis of a serial killer or nothing, it's just the story of a bad kid growing out of it. At least the book was. And again, I found it very believable.
Kubrick knew about the last chapter of the book, which is the most important, but he didnt include it to the movie because he thought it would disappoint the audience.
Interesting. I thought Kubrick had always denied knowledge of the 'missing' chapter 21 from the UK publication of the novel. Yet, you suggest that Kubrick received a copy with the rejected screenplays.
you said american locations for other films, full metal jacket was all american actors but all of the film was done in uk the shining film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England
I've had a bad remembrance of this film, and I've avoided it ever since seeing it as a teen. I was a bit of a rebel myself, although not in a violent way, and several scenes disturbed me, though not from the victims point of view.. But Alex's. I didn't like the film at all, it filling me with a dread and remorse of the perpetrator. And watching this brought back feelings and remembrances I haven't felt in many years. But I do plan in seeing it again, although through the eyes of an adult, and obviously with an opposite vantage point. It'll be interesting if the film appeals to me in a different light.
When I first went to Hollywood I was in a book store in Santa -Monica and a man came walking towards me dressed almost exactly like myself and as he made eye contact with me with a little grin as he clearly noticed it too and I realised it was Malcolm Mcdowell. as we got closer I said ''Hi, hi ,hi my droogy'' which made him laugh we had a great conversation about the film and his car collection. He was a really nice fellow.
Clyde Kelvin and the Sinners. ...
This made my day. What a great run-in!
Gold
Must be nice to be able to collect cars.
Clyde, I ran into him several times, during my time in L.A., once when he was with DeVito. They were hilarious.
So fake, why would you make something like this up ?
I love this film’s tone. It’s dark and disturbing yet surreal and the beauty of the images makes us feel conflicted by what we see in the film
Man, the way Michael Bates delivers the line "Are you now or have you ever been a homosexual?" Still makes me crack up after more than 30 years of watching Clockwork. Amazing character actor.
"With these feet?"
Michael Bates: The consummated British bureaucrat/civil servant.
One of those small roles where the actor steals the scene every time. Played perfectly.
@@dentistguba ;-)
@ctdtfiveoupNup Absolutely, it's very subtle ("the love that dare not speak its name"). Then of course he goes on to look up Alex's kiester with that phallic flashlight in his mouth. ;)
Just finished watching A Clockwork Orange two minutes ago! Perfect timing! What a coincidence..
algorithms.....now watch "1984."
not a coincidence you’re being watched my friend
Oh boy 18 minutes. Time to break out the popcorn
*lubrication
Have you by now finished the popcorn?
Just love, love, love Tyler's videos. With the research Tyler does into a director's work and the film making process, I find it incredibly insightful and can't wait for the next video to drop.
I'm also impressed by the way he edits his videos.
Keep up the good work Tyler.
Love Clockwork Orange, but can't help getting into an existential crisis after watching it each time.
Bang on.
I can't not help but think you didn't mean the exact opposite...
Yep
@@hypnodelica grammatical correction made. Stanley would probably insist I read more, as does my Mother…
I've been meaning to the book for a while now, both versions in fact. When you mentioned Kubrick's unique script I had to pause the video to go find it. I can't wait to experience the script as he wrote it. Cool video, man.
Yours is without a competition the most rewarding channel on UA-cam. I really enjoyed this. Great work Tyler!
It was weird watching this movie knowing some russian. Understanding the words that quite obviously werent ment to be understood by most of the world.
Same, except I know Slovenian.
Horosho
I understood it and im from slovakia
Most of the world didn't watch the movie but most of those who read the book did and they understood because there's a glossary at the back of the book. The presence of the glossary clearly indicates that the words were meant to be understood. Also, due the publicity at the time of its release, many who went to see the movie also understood even if they hadn't read the book. So most of the original audience understood and those who didn't could quickly guess the meaning of the few words they didn't know.
I’ve been waiting for a video on this film.
What do you mean? There are videos on this film already. Do you mean by this particular UA-cam channel?
Me? Oh, I've been waiting for a film on this video...
@@TheVefIt Not sure I understand exactly, but okay.
I been waiting for such a long time for this clip.
That makes more sense.
"I was cured, all right !"
Your Kubrick videos are brilliant
A few inaccuracies here and there (like McDowell coming up with Alex's last name when it's in fact inspired by a fantasy Alex has in the novel in which he compares himself to the Greek conqueror Alexander The Great, tweaking it to declare himself Alexander The Large, or the last chapter that doesn't actually show Alex's rehabilitation, but rather describes a mirror scene from the beginning of the novel with Alex, accompanied with new droogs, feeling bored and unsatisfied with this cycle of violence and meeting his old droog Pete who started a family, which inspires Alex to do the same) but overall, fantastic video. You've earned a sub.
I wasn’t 100% sure if I was hallucinating DeLarge being in the book. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the book, so thank you!
I love these videos, and they always have such tremendous quality. Thank you for uploading.
Love your Kubrick videos!
The v/o was necessary, less to show us Alex's internal life, more to create and enhance audience identity with him.
Also Malcom mcdowell's voice.
Ive been waiting for this, you are a hero Tyler! great work! Regarding the commetary on voice over at 03:22, its Robert Mckee who said it and its BULLSHIT! i mean Charlie Kaufman made fun of it in Adaptation, you use voice over depending of what you want to say and how your story is constructed.
6:39 Eggiweggs appears in the novella.
This remains one of my favorite books to go back and read every few years--difficult and challenging, yes, but every time I catch something new and hilarious. The screenplay (understandably) left out some of the best squirmy parts, but a brilliant adaptation overall.
D4md Cykey never had a chance to read the book, I would like to, is it still in print!
Funny how seriously Kubrick took the book when it was something Burgess pumped out high speed to pay the bills. Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything.
I believe Burgess was given a few months to live by some erroneous diagnostic which inspired him to write this. He wrote it under the pression of dying.
You really don't know what the Ludovico technique is?
You got to remember also that juice can't really create on their own and need to take from others. And Stanley Kubrick was a jui
Inspiration and what bog sends
@Carlos Saraiva The first part was a very good point. The second wildly misinterpreted the OP's point - _"Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything._"
That's certainly not justifying laziness, it's saying you might end up doing your best work when you're _not_ inspired and producing what you think to be your magnum opus - so don't wait for those perfect conditions and just write because you must.
I'm confused by the complete inversion and all the upvotes!
Viddied this vesch, like, real horrorshow.
Gregory Jewell honestly tho
Translate please.
@@awkwardoddysee4438 "I really watched this thing with great interest." That's how it's intended to be understood. If you read the novel, it won't take long to understand it another way.
@@gj8683 honestly I tried reading the novel and just couldn't 😔
Awesome content, Tyler! You should consider making a video on 'Fear and Desire'. It would be interesting to see an in depth analysis on Kubricks first film, the mindset he was in, the process, and how it connects to his later work. Again, great work as always!
Thanks for the suggestion! That's a cool idea! I'll look into it.
The matching coats on Kubrick and McDowell at 14:05 cracks me up for some reason
Great stuff Tyler, wow. I have loved this film for 20 years and this is really cool insight
3:02 reminds me of Orson Welles' response to the claim the narration in Ambersons was uncinematic: "I think words are very important in talking pictures."
I know Kubrick has caught a lot of grief from other authors whose books he helped adapt to the big screen, but work has always been incredible with an audience. Having read the book years after seeing the movie, I was very impressed how well it represented Burgess’s work. Though I did like the ending published in the European version, it’s absence was truly a better conclusion to the story. Being so dark, it really makes you feel like you have gone through the Ludivico treatment.
I read somewhere that "Alex DeLarge", though an obvious joke, is partly inspired by a scene in the book where Alex, in prison, gives that as his name after being asked that. Because Alex has no surname in the book, the author used Alex's sarcasm to its fullest extant.
Nice to know others love Kubrick as much as I do
Nice to see Delbert Grady before he took up his post at the Overlook.
I actually think A Clockwork Orange is his best film. Thanks for the video.
Can't wait for part part 3, keep up the good work
Have you seen "if...."? Malcolm MacDowell's performance is impressive as well
I love your analyses, Tyler! Thanks for putting in the time.
It's back in my local cinema in two weeks!
“Eggiweggs” was used in the book too, it was Burgess’ word
lizzie nocera yes! And McDowell didn’t come up with the last name DeLarge I think. I remember it being mentioned in the book
I love the cheery music in back of the scenes from this film haha.
Love this movie. Great video!
Fish fingers done, cuppa tea ready...i`m goin in.
it's got a beak! HEE HEE HEE
Now, enter Beethoven
lol I just literally watched this eating a fish finger sandwich :D
When I heard that "the story of Clockword Orange could not have been told like 2001" (2:51) I had to imagine Alex and his gang on the moon in their usual attire beating up the monolith. The scene where Alex and his gang walk towards that old bum in the tunnel (5:19) actually reminds of the scene in 2001 on the moon when the astronauts walk down towards the monolith, lights and shadows, but no lens flares if I remember correctly. In any case, despite of all the violence in Clockwork Orange, 2001 feels more intense to me, and somehow magnetic, memorable in a way that I find myself projecting images and sounds of the movie into my usual everyday surroundings, like when my own breathing becomes one in my mind with the breathing of the astronauts on the Jupiter mission. Or when I see the monolith in a doorway in my apartment when it's dark. It's rather scary, but also inspiring.
One Of my favorite movies covered by one of my favorite channels 😄
1 year I waited to watch this due to me not having a google account and oh it was worth every second
-Bravo
I saw this movie when I was 12. I had never seen a film that challenged me before. I felt like, “This means something....what is this movie trying to say?” I caught it late at night, on HBO or Cinemax....well past my bedtime. P’s were asleep, and I just couldn’t look away. I immediately found when it would be on again, and set the old VHS to record.
I was at the library for an acting class I was taking right around that time, and thought I’d look up the movie to see if there were any books about it. This was pre-internet, so libraries were required for answers. I was surprised to find a novel. One copy, worn out to shit......rebound with that thick plasticky contact tape that they put on the books that were falling apart. I checked it out, and devoured it in a couple of days.
I decided to see if Burgess had other books, and he sure did. I read whatever I could get. I then thought, well if that author wrote other books, I wonder if that director has made other films. I then found Stanley Kubrick’s name, unaware that he did The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, which I’d already seen.
Thats all it takes. One really good piece of art, something my parents would have likely preferred I not watch, to send a 12 year old on a scavenger hunt for books and movies. I remember begging my mom to drive me 35 minutes away to rent Barry Lyndon, as none of the local video stores had it.
Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker, its not even close. He set a standard that a handful aspire to, but nobody has yet to achieve IMO. Burgess has MANY books, and if you like this one, while it is probably his best work, his others are worth reading also. Very edgy stuff, especially considering the time period.
Super late to comment on this. Great analysis btw.
In this movie, the idea of a voice-over is Alecs voice is his subjective experience against what we see. In the entire move these correspond, but the ending quote "I was cured alright", we realized a lot. I would say this is one of cinemas greatest moment, and without the narrator voice this wouldn't have worked
Another fantastic video! Keep up the good work! I always wanted to know...What do you think about Sergio Leone?
Great video again, sir! Can’t wait for more!
This was great! Do more Kubrick
Thought about the shining video and how the takes that were often used were a ton of takes in. The actors making more interesting choices. You really see that when the old man hears Alex singing.
really cool to hear what he himself had to say about first person narration
I have great respect for you and appreciate the insight you give me into some of my favorite films and filmmakers, but nothing is "more unique." Nothing can be more "one of a kind." Carry on.
simply the best director of the 20th century.
Another great one! Thanks!
thanks for your videos tyler!
Thanks for all your videos, they've opened my eyes to some wonderful details about these films. You say that 2001 was mostly non verbal whereas A Clockwork Orange is a story that depends on voiced thoughts by the main character.
2001 uses silence or minimal sound, until the most tense moment in the film. The most important lines in the film (or book) are by HAL when he tries to deter Dave from de-activating him. The conversation based on childhood experiences and feelings makes it all that more important.
I suppose the take-away from this is that Kubrick knew exactly when to you speech and when not to.
Could you ever do a video about Baz Lhurmann? I never hear people praise him, yet his use of close ups in Strictly Ballroom to make the viewer feel disgust with the characters and the use of modern imagery to make Romeo and Juliet accessible to a modern audience despite the Shakesperean script have always impressed me
17:00 while the end to the film is "appropriate" (considering that it _is_ a hardcore satire), the British novel's end was in no way a "happy ending."
In fact, I see it as Burgess giving Alex a typically cynical "70's ending", as he becomes one more cog in the wheel of society, as he outgrows and becomes bored with his anarchy (hence the "clockwork orange", ie a vending machine that consistently spits out fruit for consumption and disposal). Throughout the movie, all of the characters (including the police and politicians) are looking for meaning and purpose... while in the end, things ebb and flow but still remain the same - the police will always be the police (and abuse their power).. the politicians will always be politicians (and divert blame onto others and keep their power) and the disaffected youth will continue to waste their lives.
Great as always!
Am I the only one who remembers DeLarge being in the book? It says at 18:10 that Malcolm McDowell came up with it, but I feel like in the book when Alex is with the two young girls towards the beginning, he tells them why he’s called DeLarge. I haven’t read A Clockwork Orange in a really long time though so I could be wrong
Love this channel !
I have to immediately watch this
11:14 Do you have a reference for this ("[Clockwork Orange] was the first time Kubrick used a computer to help him write.")
rockets4kids I don’t believe this was true. Kubrick was known to have always used typewriters to write for almost everything.
@@basededward3863 That is my understanding as well. I believe he used a typewriter long after computers became commonplace.
Nicely done!
The novel itself was based on a controversy that occurred in Italy in the 60s with the US army during the cold war. Thomas Narut was the whistleblower, he was in the Navy I forgot, and the guy was like a high ranking officer lieutenant like an old man who's still in the military cause he's that high ranking. He came out with all this information about the United States actually trying to do what we see in Clockwork Orange's "re-education" scenes, on American soldiers, who were handpicked for their volatile and antisocial nature, to turn them into disposable assassins who could be "activated" remotely to kill people. It obviously didn't really work as they had hoped. It was during the heyday of all the psych work that Bernaise and Freud were injecting into all of American culture through the methods discussed in BBC's "A Century of the Self".
You can read the newspaper clippings at the Internet Archive just google "Assassination Navy Archive" and look for the IA link
Thanks...enjoyed the video! Could you possibly point to more info on Kubrick using computer word processing for this script...does not surprise me that he would be a very early adopter of cutting edge technology. Cheers!
I kind of was hooked on horror movie magazines back in the 70s.
Interestingly the mags seemed to adopt A Clockwork Orange as a horror movie. Which I suppose, in a way, it is.
Suggest watching "Clockwork Yellow" a Simpsons parody of this movie and Kubrick in general.
Correction. You said the film Kubrick first used 1st person narration in was "Lolita," but it was actually "The Killing" in 1956.
Finally!
I recommend Making yourself lomticks of toast and a couple of eggyweggs with a moloko plus on the side before watching this. 👍
@Cinema Tyler 00:37 How do you think that compares with today when good filmmakers don't matter much anymore because studios have bypassed the need for reliance on artists and have combined sophisticated statistical analysis models with economic decisions (read Relativity Media and Netflix CEO's interviews on this subject) to make sure they don't lose money on films anymore. Marketing blitz, opening week blitz, social media, franchises and sequels. They've finally hit upon a perpetual money-making model. These have made sure that even if filmmakers and writers today want to have artistic freedom with a commercial angle, they seem to be either not happening or they're going under my radar. Some have said that the current economic situation is not allowing many young filmmakers to do this anymore, because studios are run by MBA executives and business analysis graduates. Whereas back until the 60s and 70s studios used to be headed by men like Robert 0'Brien(MGM) and Robert Evans who were more or less movie lovers themselves and allowed artists a good degree of freedom. What do you think is big picture?
Beautifully disturbing! A masterpiece! Would love to read this he book, the full 21 chapters!!
maybe a musical reboot??with james corden
Had trouble making it through the movie, although well made, it’s disturbing subject matter and avant-garde style makes some parts tough to watch !
Kubrick’s best work was A Clockwork Orange. It remains my favorite movie of all time.
Honestly. Have you any intelligence at all? This is garbage.
Not his best. I could take my Daughter to 2001. Not this.
@@InteleVision-Vic so that's what decides a film's quality?
@@nahimgood8891 Yes and the Barney movies are the all time best in the history of film.
@@bigcrackrock! where have you been uncle crack? You always seem to disappear when you get the primo stuff!
A key difference between the novel and the film is the nature of Alex's conditioning. In the novel, he is conditioned to react against the image in his mind. Kubrick's film portrays Alex as affected only when he is involved in the action itself (as perpetrator or victim), so he can picture whatever he wants in his mind, as the final images attest.
I love your videos, great work! But I don't understand, you said that Kubrick made up the line of selling magazines in the cat lady scene on the spot, but if you read the script at 7.34 it's written there?
I don't understand how that's supposed to be conflicting. Kubrick invented the line as opposed to it being taken from the novel. The line is on the script, but not on the novel.
By the way, I've read recently "Traumnovelle" (in English "Rhapsody : a Dream Novel"), the litterary source for "Eyes Wide Shut". I strongly recommend it to Kubrick fans!
Amazing how closely Kubrick sticked to the book, to the point that in some scenes I could almost feel the author's narration behind the non-verbal acting of the film's characters. And Ziegler's monologue around the pool table comes streight from the book, yet his character wasn't in the book, as well as the OD-ed model, created obviously to enforce Cruise's character's link with the girl.
Amusing to see that in the beginning of the 20th Century Schnitzler described a very cosmopolite Vienna, very close to New York in "Eyes Wide Shut"... Although the foreign man at the bal in the beginning is described with a Polish accent and the owner of the costume rental an Austrian gentleman, Kubrick replaced them with a Hungarian and a Serbian, a tribute to the diversity of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Um, "eggy-weggs" was already in the book, several times. I'm certain of this because I just recently reread it. I would be curious what slang was, in fact, new in the film. I guess I will need to vid it again, heh. Thanks for all your work. :)
Finally I get to viddy CinemaTyler make a video on this film
Excellent movie, glorious soundtrack to boot!
Thank you Sir
Brilliant
I like to vidy the ole Cinema Tyler now and again.
Hello. Is this Tyler-Guy a filmstudent, or what? Anyway: This chanal has excellent content, keep it up, Tyler-Guy!
Thanks! I'm a former film student, but I've been researching movies for as long as I can remember.
Awesome!!!! X
I love Clock Work Orange, the books great too!
Always great.
18:18 Just realised this cut breaks the 180 rule
Whyd he do that
Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" has launched a very strong chain reaction that contributed to change my life, I'm not even exagerating!
After viddying the Kubrick's Sinny I've searched the old kneega in my mother Frantsoozsky yahzeek, a really horrorshow translation that made me want to read it the original Nadsat, then Burgess' invention helped me learning Russian, and - voilà ! I live for seven years in Moscow, happily married, with two Russian-French malchiks!
So as far as ACO goes, the book is very close to the movie. Barry Lindon I am not sure but would suspect the same. Kubrick said he is a horrible writer but a good rewriter. Makes sense he wrote ACO script.
Makes sense. He did write Eyes Wide Shut, so he was right about that one
Pretty much like the book if you ask me. Sidenote - me and a mate had a big fight alongside sone clockwork orange look-a-likes camping out in an English holiday town, they were a little intimidated. Ha!
This is one of those movies I can watch only once
So anyone who hasn't read the book should definitely read it along with the last (British ending) chapter. The last chapter is nothing like what is usually described. Perhaps it's because I watched the movie for the first time when I was around Alex's age at the beginning of the book, and read the book when I was at Alex's age at the end of the book, but I was profoundly affected by it. Even now in my 40s I would urge all teenagers and young adults to read it, the entire thing, because it communicates something most adults (especially parents) consistently try to say and usually end up failing.
A very good horror show my good droog
A very good good?
Yeah it's typo
*Translation*
A very good good my good buddy
What music did you use in your video??
I have a copy of the book with a dictionary at the back, with all the lingo its the one where you can see half a man's face with chains going across it.
I read an early draft of 2001 that was all dialogue. Somewhere between that draft and the shooting of the film Kubrick realized the dialogue was unnecessary. As I remember the last chapter of Clockwork Orange, Alex is back at a bar ten years later, having naturally grown out of his wayward and violent tendencies. He's observing a group of of youths acting as he'd once done himself. We can argue over the meaning of the ending (State intervention in human development to produce citizens who operate like "Clockwork" vs natural maturation and learning that violence ultimately does not serve either the individual or society). I certainly don't see that as "tacked on" and is a topic of ongoing and continued heated debate.
I like your analysis, but that music is very distracting. I saw the movie years before I read the book, and the version of the book I read was the English first edition, which had the 21st chapter but no glossary. But I was able to understand the slang mostly from the context. I read that Burgess organized the novel to have 3 parts with 7 chapters each, so it seems unlikely that any publisher convinced him to add a more positive ending. If fact, he seems rightly annoyed that American publishers cut it. But I agree with Kubrick that the original positive ending doesn't ring true to the arc of the novel.
Doesn't ring true to the arc of the novel? The arc of the novel is Alex's character arc. That arc ends with Alex maturing. To me, it's really what makes ACO a classic. It's what makes it a truly important piece of fiction. I'll never understand why Kubrick or American publishers didn't include the last chapter.
It doesn't ring true because it's utter bullshit. No psychopathic killers (or damn few, anyway) just wake up one morning and say, "Oh, it's my 21st birthday. I'm tired of doing those things now."
@@christophermacintyre5890 It's a fictional story, not a documentary. It's called symbolism, guy. And Alex isn't a psychopathic killer anyways.
Kubrick himself stated otherwise. In interviews he plainly called Alex not only evil, but knowingly evil. Alex most certainly WAS a killer (the cat lady), and as a matter of fact, was even more of a killer in the book, if anything. Also, if you notice, later in the film two of his droogs (now policeman) had the numbers 665 and 667 on their uniforms. Since these two droogs walked on either side of Alex in several scenes, that would mean his "number" would be 666 if and when (probably when) he become co-opted by the state as they were. So, clearly, Alex is being equated with evil. However, for Kubrick, it is likely that he found those in power just as evil (though perhaps less honest about it), since they cynically use these type of people for their own political ends when convenient. Also, saying "it's a fictional story, not a documentary" is a cop out and doesn't give Kubrick enough credit as a serious artist trying to face the nature of reality.
@@christophermacintyre5890 The point of the story is that Alex is capable of maturity because maturity happens naturally. Even if he was an "evil" person before, he has the capacity to grow and change, not because of some convoluted state sanctioned brain washing, but just by the simple process of growing older and having more experiences and watching those around you also grow. That all felt very believable in the book. The movie has a cynical ending that stands in direct contrast to the conclusion in the book that the entire story had been building up to. I thought the resolution came when Alex sees that the last droog has a family and is capable of having a normal life. That was a hella satisfying. When I say "it's only fiction" I mean, it's not a scientific analysis of a serial killer or nothing, it's just the story of a bad kid growing out of it. At least the book was. And again, I found it very believable.
This is my second favorite movie of all time.
First?
Kubrick knew about the last chapter of the book, which is the most important, but he didnt include it to the movie because he thought it would disappoint the audience.
Interesting. I thought Kubrick had always denied knowledge of the 'missing' chapter 21 from the UK publication of the novel. Yet, you suggest that Kubrick received a copy with the rejected screenplays.
This was good . 👍
you said american locations for other films, full metal jacket was all american actors but all of the film was done in uk the shining film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England
I've had a bad remembrance of this film, and I've avoided it ever since seeing it as a teen.
I was a bit of a rebel myself, although not in a violent way, and several scenes disturbed me, though not from the victims point of view.. But Alex's.
I didn't like the film at all, it filling me with a dread and remorse of the perpetrator.
And watching this brought back feelings and remembrances I haven't felt in many years.
But I do plan in seeing it again, although through the eyes of an adult, and obviously with an opposite vantage point.
It'll be interesting if the film appeals to me in a different light.
Sad the movie didn't have the last chapter...I've always felt the true ending makes it more true to life