I always loved this movie, just for the oddness of it! And let's face it, Malcolm should have gotten an award for this performance. And Kubrick's work is always amazing!
...it is literally one of the greatest "Acid Films" of all time, not only by way of the distorted visuals, also by way of referencing the Droogs' favorite drink Moloko plus, milk spiked with LSD (Acid in late 1960s early 1970s slang)...
@@miklosernoehazy8678 It wasn't LSD. "In Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel (and Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film), A Clockwork Orange, the Korova Milk Bar dispenses drinks-namely the Moloko Plus-to make one shiver. According the main character, Alex, a glass of Moloko Plus “would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.” It’s the illicit additives- vellocet (opiate), sythemesc (mescaline), drencrom (adrenochrome) “or one or two other veshches [drugs]”-that put the “plus” in Moloko Plus. San Francisco bartender Morgan Schick interpreted this creepy cocktail with rum, mezcal (to sharpen one up, presumably) and aromatic cardamom milk."
@GENERAL DISARRAY'S BOSS 83 Ludwig Van Beethoven was the first true rock star, in his wake was trashed hotel rooms, drunk in the gutter, sordid love affairs with all kinds of women, a secret "love of his life" that to this day no one knows for sure who she was, various scandals, and the only reason the man wasn't up to his neck in cocaine and strippers is because they hadn't been invented yet. If that's not rock n roll then I don't know what is.
The “Deleted” scene with the droogs overlooking the old women is from the book. It’s how the droogs bought their alibis. They would go into the pub and buy the old women drinks and then head off and commit crimes and then head back to the bar. If the police came in to question Alex and his droogs, the old pititsa’s would then vouch for them. Makes me wonder if the scene from the book where Alex and his droogs rob a newsagents was filmed also as it directly relates to this. We will never know!
Thanks Sdea1903 - here a year later I'm watching this and as soon as Mark mentions the scene and we see the 'lost' still I flashed right back to that sequence in the book, even though it's been probably 30 years since I read it last. Good job!
It seems like you could ask someone who was there what the deleted scenes contained. If I were interviewing someone who had anything to do with making that most excellent flick I certainly would ask about Clockwork Orange.
I love the fact that Kubrick paid exorbitantly for the use of Singing in the Rain, despite the clear objections from the rights holders when he told them what it would be used for, rather than reshoot those scenes. That's real commitment.
It literally took Kubricks people less then 24 hour's to purchase the rights.Malcomb ran into Gene Kelly after the movie launched and Gene snubbed him Muahahahahahahaha
thorazine666 Yeah, I remember in the ACO Blu-Ray commentary track that Malcom mentioned that Singing in The Rain is still one of his favorite movies and that he has nothing but respect for it and Gene Kelly.
I started the book, got tied up on the nadsat, and just set it aside until I finished the unabridged War And Peace (which I never did - damn, that’s a big book!).
Kubrick was certainly one of the most brilliant directors of all time. Who else could have so successfully directed movies as diverse as 2001, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Clockwork, and Strangelove, among others? A singularly unique creative genius.
Yarbles, great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain, or nozh, or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.
Still unreal for even by today's standards but a fantastic movie.. When I first saw it in the mid 70's I sat there with my jaw scraping the floor.. Seen it many times.. Even got it on video in the mid 80's and not a bootleg.. Now I have it on DVD.
I bought the VHS back in high school as well. Lent it to a classmate of mine and asked his opinion on the film, to which he simply replied 'yeah, I quit watching it after the first rape scene', which brought me to the conclusion he quit at the very beginning.
It was regularly screened at art house cinemas in the late seventies and eighties. My teenage mates and I saw it for the first time at a late night screening in the old Paris Theatre on Liverpool St Sydney in about 1978. We were shattered when the old Paris was demolished and replaced with an expensive apartment block in the eighties.
Absolutely. Prophetic in societal tone and also portentous of future establishment control systems. IMHO - it is a masterclass in direction and cinematography. Possibly one of the finest movies ever made.
@@vinceturner100 IDK. I didn't view it untill the 80s and America was pretty violent at that time so the ultraviolet wasn't so ultra. They would have ate him alive in places like Cabrini Green. I did however dig the audio turntable.
14:00 Heck, I saw it in my teens in the 80s here in Canada..... You didn't mention that the "Home Invasion" scene had to be reshot because the role of the wife had to be recast after the first actress quit out of disgust for the scene.
I first heard the song while watching a clip of Gene Kelly dancing and singing in the rain. Now thanks to this movie I now have the image of Alex sexually assaulting the lady of the house whenever I hear the song!
in the age of social distancing, I've often found the urge to quote Chief Guard Barnes when some old prick disregards the six-foot markers on the store floor. "Are you able to see the white line painted on the floor directly behind you?? Then your toes belong ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT!!
@@yomuno2511 thanks for reminding me 😂 true story, I'm at the customer service desk at the grocery store, and some geezer walks up so close behind me his chin is practically on my shoulder!
At 10:03 when he says the poster take the “orange” in the title “quite seriously” as if to say it’s too literal, it’s untrue. The “orange” in the title is MEANT to mean an actual orange, as one quote in the book is “if he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by god or the devil”.
Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.
@@louisefontaine6856 Then, brothers, it came. Oh bliss and heaven. I lay all flat, parallel to the ceiling, my head on my hands, on the pillow, my eyes closed, mouth open in bliss, enjoying the lovely sounds as they washed over me. Oh, it was gorgeous and gorgeousness made flesh.
Nice quote and translation! I remember reading the book years (decades...) ago, and how hard the first third of the book was, having to flip to the glossary in the back, until I got the more common words learned.
You missed the single most important thing that people don't know about A Clockwork Orange, that's WHY Burgess wrote it, the home invasion scene is the single most important clue. During WW2 Burgess was in the British military (I believe in intelligence) stationed in Gibraltar and his wife was back in London and pregnant, during the troop buildup prior to the Invasion of Normandy four American GI's broke into their home and raped her, she didn't die but she lost the baby, sometime after the war he decided to write about it in an attempt to help himself deal with it and try to get it out of his mind, Burgess is really the writer who winds up half crazy and in the wheelchair (although he wasn't really in a wheelchair it represented his "handicap" from the incident). As far as whether or not the 4 GI's were caught and punished for their crime I do not know, being a veteran of the US Army I can only hope they were.
@@leapatel4128 No, I don't know how to link things in the comment section of UA-cam anyways, I'll try to remember where I got that from although I think it might have been on a documentary that I saw about the making of the movie, give me a little time to see what I can come up with and I'll try to get back to you on it.
I'm diabetic and get monthly injections into my eyes. Those clamps are used to hold the eyes open. Yes they are VERY uncomfortable. Still, you get used to it...not something I ever thought I'd be saying😖
I had the William Tell Overture playing whilst banging my new girlfriend in my trailer in college. It fit the moment very well. Over 40 years later I may have to play it extremely slowly should I replay that event. She married some other guy but still likes me.
This movie actually opened my mind to classical music when I was younger. I had a habit of blocking it out in boredom before. Such a long time ago.. lol
The deleted scene with the old ladies could be a reference to the book because there's a scene where the Droogs buy the old ladies drinks in exchange for an alibi.
I remember this being the first 18 rated movie I ever saw at the cinema....at the age of 17. It has just been re-released after Kubrick's death. Such a genius and brilliant movie of which quality you just don't see anymore. Everything from the costume, to the dialogue, to the variety of characters, to the trippy artwork.
I'm from the USA, and 58 now. I first saw "A Clockwork Orange" in the mid '80s. I've watched it a few times since. If you haven't seen it yet, and want to have your mind blown, check it out.
another major difference from the novel: originally, Alex is supposed to be just 14 years old (which is why he gets such a relatively light sentence for murder), but he was bumped up to 16 so Malcolm McDowall (who was 27 at the time of filming) could realistically pass for that age. Also, in the novel, the two girls that Alex picks up at the record store are supposed to be a LOT younger than him, but thankfully in the movie they appear to be the same age as him. one last thing: Alex has no last name in the novel (though he does refer to himself as "Alexander the Large" when having his fun with the little girls); "DeLarge" was chosen to reference this dialogue. However, if you pay close attention, whenever we see the newspapers talking about Alex, his last name is given as "Burgess", no doubt named after the author
Yup! Robert Arthur Moog, inventor of the Moog Modulator(s) and Moog Synthesizers. Not only Wendy Carlos worked with him, so did Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame.
I actually saw A Clockwork Orange at an underground alternative cinema in Brisbane back in 1991. I don't remember the name of the cinema but this was my first viewing of the movie and it was really something else.
As much of a fan as I am both the novel and film even I still cringe at some moments lol. Ppl really need to give this a view if only once or twice. It provides such a great psychological insight to the world of a troubled youth and really presents some good "What if" moments. Great job Minty!
This movie was very important to my high school teachers here in Brazil. So, imagine how I felt when they made us Analyse the movie as a school homework! I was 15, became an instant fan of Beethoven and Wendy Carlos.
I bought a VHS copy (with full case etc) in Greece in 1992. One viewing I let it run to the end after the credits. It had been recorded off of American TV.
Alex's famous suicide attempt from his point of view was done by simply throwing a running Bolex camera off a building. Amazingly the camera was still in working order when it was recovered.
Just learned this myself after ACO has been my favourite movie since 2004. I learned last year that Chief Barnes was in Patton. I noticed upon my first viewing that Mr. Deltoid was the undertaker in The Wicker Man. The Minister also acted in To The Manor Born.
I think the video missed, or I missed it in the video, that the movie has Dim and the other Droog from Alex's gang as the cops, while I thought Dim's partner in the book was Officer Billyboy..?
@@erikt454 Yes it was Billyboy in the book. In the book Georgie was shot and killed by the owner of the home that he broke into. Briefly mentioned to Alex when his parents visit him in prison.
I saw it in the cinema in Glasgow when I was 16 and me and my mates dressed like droogs (all bar the ball protectors) for a summer pretending we were hard, but were nothing of the sort of course. lol. I even lived in Thamesmead in the late 80's. What a movie and what a soundtrack! Easily in my top 5.
@@players7686 Try reading the book. It has a lot more to it, plus you don't get distracted by the comical special effects, which were bad even for the 70s.
While I acknowledge the greatness and masterpiece of this movie, it's also one of the most disturbing ever. Takes a bold and open mind to truly appreciate this mind kind of a movie.
The worse thing is that the things that Alex and his crew did in the movie are CHILDSPLAY to what some youth offenders and gangs do today. Alongside the likes of MS13, Alex and his drooges seem like alter boys, and even a deprogrammed Alex would go full feoteal in today's world of urban violence.
20 years later and i just realized that Simpsons episode where Santas Little Helper went to Mr Burns n became one of his hounds. Burns did to the dog what happened to Alex in ACO. Eye clamps and all.
I remember back in the 80s when i was a lot younger my dad used to rent films from the local video store, The Exorcist, Death Wish etc, I was not allowed to watch them, but one day it all changed, and they were withdrawn banned etc, after that myself and my dad set out on a mission to try to track them down, they were like gold dust, and as I got older I got more and more into trying to get hold of banned movies, i managed to get hold of a very blurry copy of The Exorcist and a decent copy of Straw Dogs, I then learned about A Clockwork Orange, read the book and loved it, but could not get hold of a copy of the movie, then many years later finally got to see it and now its one of my top movies!
Or: How to turn a *Negative* into a *Positive!* A lifelong pursuit, hobby, what have ye. Now, when this "banning" is done with drugs & booze & etc., however...
When I took the NTE (National Teacher's Exam) back in the mid 80s, one section presented us with pictures from A Clockwork Orange. We were asked page after page of questions about forced perspective, back lighting, etc. I was certainly glad I'd had a lot of photography classes, and was a theatre major. It was unbelievable! Many of my friends, who didn't have the same training, failed it.
Randall Koch That, or by the odd nationalities on the route from Persian Sardis back to Greece. The Warriors was very inspired by Xenophon’s Anabasis, although that was left off the TV version that I saw before getting it on DVD.
The Warriors was a book written in the mid sixties.although the story is similar the gangs weren't so colourful.worth reading if you interested in social history,or even New York history
@@nibiru379 Neither. I probably wanted to see it because it was supposed to be banned here, purely because of that. It was similar with other "controversial" films and books (e.g., Passions of Christ (film), Cannibal Holocaust etc even Life of Brian in some places film, Final Exit (book) etc. I guess I enjoyed them - the VHS copies are retired but I still have them on DVD as well as electronic copies. Each of those movies I would watch approximately yearly... they become old staples together with Rocky Horror etc that you can watch when you don't really want to watch a movie. Each time they are seen though you usually come away with a different point of view, depending on who you watched it with and your emotions at that time. I guess they are classics for a reason.
and the song 'droogs don't run' by Cock Sparrer, which i coincidently heard listening to one of their albums yesterday before this popped up in my youtube.
My old paper back copy of the book, that I read shortly after the Earth cooled, does not have the missing last chapter. Now I'll have to find a new print and plow through it again. Also Heath Ledger's Joker immediately reminded me of Malcolm's Alex. Thanks Minty.
Hey, Mintie ! While banned in UK and AUS, the movie was quite available in other countries. I grew up in Berlin in the 70's and 80's and the movie was running in a small local theatre in my neighbourhood... For years they showed it every 5 or 6 weeks, at 10.30pm on saturday's ... and funnily the sunday's matinee was always Monthy Python's "Holy Grail" Following Germany's classifications, it was rated +18 years and I was too young to see it myself... yet I was always intrigued about the movie's title and the still pictures in the theatre entrance lobby ...
I grew up in inner city Sydney. In 1982, on George Street in the CBD, just south of Liverpool Street, there was a tiny video rental shop where the owner, his name was Paris, rented VHS tapes he himself imported from Europe. Amongst the various titles of bazaar movies he had was A Clockwork Orange. I rented & copied it. Thanks, mate! It was the only copy I knew of that existed that anyone had until the advent of dvd's in the early 00s
Anyone interested in Burgess' take on the film can read it in the 1986 version's intro, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked". He had specific reasons for that final chapter ["arithmology" !?!] but also acknowledges, "I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgments may have been faulty. Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics." thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/20/a-clockwork-orange-resucked/
Enjoyed this, thanks! Did my honors thesis on a comparison between "A Clockwork Orange" and "Fight Club" back in 2002. Genre, director style, sociology behind each one and the technical side of each. Miss studying films. Love your channel!
@chris younts Maybe NC-17 by today's standards if there was a remake with some of the graphic images in the book that Kubrick did not put in the movie. I am not saying there should be a remake, that just might turn out to be a crappy film. Let the original stand where it is at. It is still very futuristic even today and beyond our distance future.
When I was about 11 years-old and my brother 13ish, he had somehow gotten A Clockwork Orange as a summer reading assignment for school, with the option of either reading the book or watching the movie. Being barely literate (I'm exaggerating), he somehow borrowed a VHS copy from... somewhere and we watched it one day while the parents were at work. I have my doubts these days about the truthfulness of his claim that it was a school assignment.
I watched this movie in my 3rd year of high school. So in our class we were like 15 or 16 years old. I loved the movie but I think I was not mature enough to appreciate it
@@shopo6847 I saw it at 17 with one of my best friends and although we understood it (and I think being female - for me at least - adds a layer to this story that is not said), I see it through a deeper lens now being 39.
Here's some things you don't know about A Clockwork Orange. The "hospital" was filmed at my Alma mater, Uxbridge campus, Brunel university. The concrete sand crawler is the lecture center. The reception is the entrance to the maths building The treatment room is the lecture hall 1. The accommodation is one of the student rooms in Chepstow hall. The furniture, decor and bedding in the old halls were identical when I was there, at the turn of the millennium. They had not changed a thing in 40 years.
Oh, that concrete sand crawler thing? The lecture centre? That's a listed building, an official 60s design classic. Unique too, they left the wood mould on the building too, so the surface of the concrete has a wood pattern impressed into it
You didn't mention one of the most stunning facts about the movie: it's a comedy. There's a DVD commentary out there with Malcolm McDowell which confirms this. I actually had to rewatch the movie after seeing the commentary to get it, but it's true: this is arguably the darkest comedy ever made.
I've always seen it as a comedic film, despite all the raping and violencing. There are just too many cheap laughs in it for it to be a coincidence. I'm not even slightly shocked. :)
kind of. there's humour in it but i think the message is a little deeper. Institutions are a lot more violent and hypocritical than Alex could ever be. Kubrick attacks everyone here, even the left wing intellectual who turns mad when he finds out who Alex is. In effect, it's a deep criticism of society, like he had done with paths of glory (both got banned).
Erik yes, it's pretty sarcastic. Even some of the violence can come across as funny like killing the cat lady with a stupid looking cock. Maybe Kubrick was making fun of this caricature of a posh English lady. I feel there's a strong social element to it.
This is a classic movie. back in the 80's when I was a teenager. The only way you could see the clockwork orange was on pirate video. Everyone knew someone who could get it for you. Everyone wanted to see this movie back then. The Rolling stones nearly made this movie with Mick Jagger as Alex. What about 10 things about IF.
I did my English "o"grade on a clockwork orange and a book called "what witches do"....I got in a lot of trouble over that. Scottish education is great .
Yes/no... Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" was probably the biggest influence back then. And also Wendy Carlos was actually a transgender man at that time. But I do agree: great synth music to accompany this film! ✌️
I stand corrected, Wendy Carlos was nearly 10 years ahead of JMJ and was instrumental in the development of the Moog synthesiser that created the electronic music genre. Interesting to know she also composed the music for both The Shining & Tron also.
@@gts9920 Wendy Carlos had an interest in electronic sounds going back to the late 50's. She was one of the early pioneers of electronic music. But there were others before her going as far back to the 30's and throughout the 40's and early mid 50's. She worked with Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Modular(s) and Synthesizers.
For me it's a pleasure how much Alex relishes in evil and Beethoven and the language distances itsef from the violence. I loved every aspect, but yes I can see how it can be disturbing
I read this in high school to piss off my catholic school teachers (which it did) and this became one of the most enjoyable experiences reading I've ever had. I had the british version and saw the movie after. I've been a fan of both since. Great collection of interesting facts surrounding the film, even if I had heard a few before. My only complaint is your mic quality. If you'd be interesting in chatting about affordable mics I'd be more than happy to help you improve your quality, as the rest was so well done and you have a knack for editing and narrating. I'm a fan of the AT2005 for a mic below $100 USD. I dropped a sub :)
I remember when A Clockwork Orange was first released, I was 15 years old and it had a X Rating. Two years later when I was still a young malchick at 17, I viddy it at the sinny. While I was vidding little Alex and his droogs at the sinny, I understood the whole film and the nadsat language, and it was real horrorshow. After a few more times vidding this film at the sinny, I finally bought the book and read it. Right, right, right, right O' my brothers, the novela was just as real horrorshow as the film. Minty, O' my brother, you did not speak of the auto that little Alex and his droogs plucked from the tree, the M-505 Adams Brothers Probe 16, designed by former Marcos cars designers Dennis and Peter Adams. It was powered by a mid-mounted tuned Austin 1800 cc engine. Stanley Kubrick used the Probe 16 (AB/4) in the film and referred it as the Durango 95. There are only two left in the world (supposebly) one in Norway and one in Canada. Minty, O' my brother. I did wonder when you were going to get around to 10 Things You Didn't Know About A Clockwork Orange. Maybe you had a bit of pain in the gulliver from doing too many 10 Things You Didn't Know, eh? Feeling better I take it, eh?
I loved this movie. Didn't know what they were saying half the time but definitely a movie not easily forgotten. Malcolm McDowell was excellent in his role.
That was another really interesting thing about becoming involved in this book and Movie with heavy themes about brain washing and conditioning... you're sort of conditioned to learn a new sort of language in the process.
I used to use Mr. Deltoid as a gamer tag & a dude from texas recognized it & we went back & forth saying lines & it was funny to hear his regular southern accent change to Deltoid.
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I always loved this movie, just for the oddness of it! And let's face it, Malcolm should have gotten an award for this performance. And Kubrick's work is always amazing!
...it is literally one of the greatest "Acid Films" of all time, not only by way of the distorted visuals, also by way of referencing the Droogs' favorite drink Moloko plus, milk spiked with LSD (Acid in late 1960s early 1970s slang)...
@@miklosernoehazy8678 Thanks did not know that.
@@miklosernoehazy8678 It wasn't LSD.
"In Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel (and Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film), A Clockwork Orange, the Korova Milk Bar dispenses drinks-namely the Moloko Plus-to make one shiver. According the main character, Alex, a glass of Moloko Plus “would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.” It’s the illicit additives- vellocet (opiate), sythemesc (mescaline), drencrom (adrenochrome) “or one or two other veshches [drugs]”-that put the “plus” in Moloko Plus. San Francisco bartender Morgan Schick interpreted this creepy cocktail with rum, mezcal (to sharpen one up, presumably) and aromatic cardamom milk."
🏆🏆🏆So true 👍👍 🏆 🏆🏆
@@dayjeremy By “lsd” that guy meant that the movie itself got a psychedelic edge on the brain of someone watching it.
"No time for the old in-out love, I just came to read the meter"
Hey! THAT's My Favorite Movie line!
You know what you can do with that watch?
Eggy weggs! I would like... to smash em
Love that as a profile quote in video games
@@andy86i What about some steaky wake?
The dialogue in A Clockwork Orange is like cyberpunk Shakespeare.
Real horrorshow!
Awesome analogy!
Diggerfdf thank you!!
@GENERAL DISARRAY'S BOSS 83
Ludwig Van Beethoven was the first true rock star, in his wake was trashed hotel rooms, drunk in the gutter, sordid love affairs with all kinds of women, a secret "love of his life" that to this day no one knows for sure who she was, various scandals, and the only reason the man wasn't up to his neck in cocaine and strippers is because they hadn't been invented yet.
If that's not rock n roll then I don't know what is.
@GENERAL DISARRAY'S BOSS 83
Shame he didn't have access to the cocaine and strippers, and a fast car then he could have died a real rock star's death.
The “Deleted” scene with the droogs overlooking the old women is from the book. It’s how the droogs bought their alibis. They would go into the pub and buy the old women drinks and then head off and commit crimes and then head back to the bar. If the police came in to question Alex and his droogs, the old pititsa’s would then vouch for them. Makes me wonder if the scene from the book where Alex and his droogs rob a newsagents was filmed also as it directly relates to this. We will never know!
...good catch!...
...I remember that from the book as well...
thank god someone else has actually read and understood the brilliant book
thank you. both scenes were in the book
Thanks Sdea1903 - here a year later I'm watching this and as soon as Mark mentions the scene and we see the 'lost' still I flashed right back to that sequence in the book, even though it's been probably 30 years since I read it last. Good job!
It seems like you could ask someone who was there what the deleted scenes contained. If I were interviewing someone who had anything to do with making that most excellent flick I certainly would ask about Clockwork Orange.
I love the fact that Kubrick paid exorbitantly for the use of Singing in the Rain, despite the clear objections from the rights holders when he told them what it would be used for, rather than reshoot those scenes. That's real commitment.
It literally took Kubricks people less then 24 hour's to purchase the rights.Malcomb ran into Gene Kelly after the movie launched and Gene snubbed him Muahahahahahahaha
thorazine666 Yeah, I remember in the ACO Blu-Ray commentary track that Malcom mentioned that Singing in The Rain is still one of his favorite movies and that he has nothing but respect for it and Gene Kelly.
the scene required authenticity...even if it was used in a very surreal and disturbing way...
I honestly think A Clockwork Orange is Kubrick's best film
Absolutely, followed by 2001 and then Lolita.
2001 then the shining
Full Metal Jacket is best imo- but all great films.
The moon landing was his most popular tho.
Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, 2001, and
A Clockwork Orange are my all time favorite Kubrick films.
For those who haven't read it, the book is really good!
Thanks!
By the end of it you can speak fluent Nadsat.
I started the book, got tied up on the nadsat, and just set it aside until I finished the unabridged War And Peace (which I never did - damn, that’s a big book!).
@@Egilhelmson That's a good one too! I need to read it again.
The biggest surprise I had from the book, was learning the ages of the characters.
Kubrick was certainly one of the most brilliant directors of all time. Who else could have so successfully directed movies as diverse as 2001, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Clockwork, and Strangelove, among others? A singularly unique creative genius.
"Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou."
DeMoN Stinking Billygoat
How art thou, Thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil?
Yarbles, great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain, or nozh, or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.
TheReadMenace a nozh scrap anytime you say
I am loving this comment section. It's like I have entered the book...
I love that sentence. "Brutally reconditioned to be repulsed by violence"
Genius
I saw it at the theater on its 25TH anniversary re-release. I felt very lucky to have seen it on the big screen. Kubrick was a mastermind.
I saw it on the big screen too--at a university retro showing in Seattle. Stunning. But I still love the book more.
@@susanalfieri4487 I never read the book but books are almost always better.
Saw this when it came out in theaters when I was in high school. I was mesmerized, this film was so far ahead of its time its unreal!
Still unreal for even by today's standards but a fantastic movie.. When I first saw it in the mid 70's I sat there with my jaw scraping the floor.. Seen it many times.. Even got it on video in the mid 80's and not a bootleg.. Now I have it on DVD.
I bought the VHS back in high school as well. Lent it to a classmate of mine and asked his opinion on the film, to which he simply replied 'yeah, I quit watching it after the first rape scene', which brought me to the conclusion he quit at the very beginning.
It was regularly screened at art house cinemas in the late seventies and eighties. My teenage mates and I saw it for the first time at a late night screening in the old Paris Theatre on Liverpool St Sydney in about 1978. We were shattered when the old Paris was demolished and replaced with an expensive apartment block in the eighties.
I saw it in middle school around 2002ish? I didn't fully appreciate it until later in life. Now, it's one of my favorite films of all time.
Malcolm is a brilliant actor, this movie was awesome! 😁
He made the movie good but it misses the point of the book completely
Is*
This movie was made way ahead of its time.
kirby march barcena it would have been visual crap if it were made today
Absolutely. Prophetic in societal tone and also portentous of future establishment control systems. IMHO - it is a masterclass in direction and cinematography. Possibly one of the finest movies ever made.
One of the things it didn't predict...
was that record stores would one day become passe in time.
@@vinceturner100 IDK. I didn't view it untill the 80s and America was pretty violent at that time so the ultraviolet wasn't so ultra. They would have ate him alive in places like Cabrini Green. I did however dig the audio turntable.
Some of the Black Mirror episodes reminded me of this in terms of style
14:00 Heck, I saw it in my teens in the 80s here in Canada.....
You didn't mention that the "Home Invasion" scene had to be reshot because the role of the wife had to be recast after the first actress quit out of disgust for the scene.
"I was cured alright."
Spoiler alert smh
My dad took my mom to see this on their first date, then when I was old enough, he told me to watch it, my dad was awesome
Lucky you I'm named after Alex because of the reasons
Truly lucky to have someone likes the miloko plus in the family.
"Singing the rain", was changed forever that day! Lol
I would have never known the lyrics of said tune had it not been for A Clockwork Orange.
I first heard the song while watching a clip of Gene Kelly dancing and singing in the rain. Now thanks to this movie I now have the image of Alex sexually assaulting the lady of the house whenever I hear the song!
@@melissacooper4282 Although it would be fun to play the song on the background while making out just to see if she gets the joke or not.
“For being a bastard with no manners, and not a duke of an idea of how to comport yourself public wise, oh my brother.”
Dooby dooph then..
in the age of social distancing, I've often found the urge to quote Chief Guard Barnes when some old prick disregards the six-foot markers on the store floor.
"Are you able to see the white line painted on the floor directly behind you?? Then your toes belong ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT!!
@@Viking_Luchador you left out "six double five, 321. 😂
@@yomuno2511 thanks for reminding me 😂 true story, I'm at the customer service desk at the grocery store, and some geezer walks up so close behind me his chin is practically on my shoulder!
At 10:03 when he says the poster take the “orange” in the title “quite seriously” as if to say it’s too literal, it’s untrue.
The “orange” in the title is MEANT to mean an actual orange, as one quote in the book is “if he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by god or the devil”.
Hi
Favourite movie ever... Cheers
Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.
Fucking brilliant book.
Please translate in English l9l!
@@louisefontaine6856 Then, brothers, it came. Oh bliss and heaven. I lay all flat, parallel to the ceiling, my head on my hands, on the pillow, my eyes closed, mouth open in bliss, enjoying the lovely sounds as they washed over me. Oh, it was gorgeous and gorgeousness made flesh.
Nice quote and translation! I remember reading the book years (decades...) ago, and how hard the first third of the book was, having to flip to the glossary in the back, until I got the more common words learned.
You missed the single most important thing that people don't know about A Clockwork Orange, that's WHY Burgess wrote it, the home invasion scene is the single most important clue.
During WW2 Burgess was in the British military (I believe in intelligence) stationed in Gibraltar and his wife was back in London and pregnant, during the troop buildup prior to the Invasion of Normandy four American GI's broke into their home and raped her, she didn't die but she lost the baby, sometime after the war he decided to write about it in an attempt to help himself deal with it and try to get it out of his mind, Burgess is really the writer who winds up half crazy and in the wheelchair (although he wasn't really in a wheelchair it represented his "handicap" from the incident).
As far as whether or not the 4 GI's were caught and punished for their crime I do not know, being a veteran of the US Army I can only hope they were.
Overpaid, oversexed and over here
That's terrible. I hope they were caught, too.
Horrible ordeal yet informative background.
Do you have a link where I can find this information? Writing an essay and I need evidence to strengthen my points.
@@leapatel4128
No, I don't know how to link things in the comment section of UA-cam anyways, I'll try to remember where I got that from although I think it might have been on a documentary that I saw about the making of the movie, give me a little time to see what I can come up with and I'll try to get back to you on it.
an australian droog is simply referred to as an "australian"
Matthew Anderson you read my mind.
Nope they were called bevans but now known as bogans.
And kiwis in Australia are known as dole bludgers
Bodgies, Bevans, Westies, and Bogans.
Fuck you !
Kubrick never ceases to amaze me! Everything has a subtle sub meaning right down to the props and sets. Great video! Cheers.
Lead actor had a phobia of snakes and Kubrick still made him film scenes with that big ass python.
Hahaha
Classic Stanley
Wow that's pretty harsh, but a great director nonetheless.
Believable if you know what happened filming the Shining
@@starwarsroo2448
Torturing Shelly Duval?
@@americangig-olo1226 yeah well maybe not torture, but pushing someone and treating them like that just to get a performance is pretty cold
The damn eyeball clamp scene still makes me uncomfortable!!!
I'm diabetic and get monthly injections into my eyes. Those clamps are used to hold the eyes open. Yes they are VERY uncomfortable. Still, you get used to it...not something I ever thought I'd be saying😖
I haven't even seen the movie and yet I agree. 😬
So many scenes make me uncomfortable in this movie.
@@mliterature that was the point. The book is excellent though equally uncomfortable.
Especially knowing that McDowell suffered a sliced cornea as a result!
Once you see "A Clockwork Orange" you will never think of The Lone Ranger the same way again.
Best use of the William Tell Overture ever!
or beethoven's ode to joy
I had the William Tell Overture playing whilst banging my new girlfriend in my trailer in college. It fit the moment very well. Over 40 years later I may have to play it extremely slowly should I replay that event. She married some other guy but still likes me.
Unless you hear it on a propper....
I'll show myself out.
This movie actually opened my mind to classical music when I was younger. I had a habit of blocking it out in boredom before. Such a long time ago.. lol
The deleted scene with the old ladies could be a reference to the book because there's a scene where the Droogs buy the old ladies drinks in exchange for an alibi.
It is
"Come with uncle and learn all proper.
Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones.
You are invited."
And I'll smash your face, for you...
Yarblockos!
@@HeyJohnnyBaybay Eggiwegs......
Sounds like time for a little of the old ultra-violence....
And to do the old in-out-in-out.
A little of the old ultra - violence never hurt anybody
I remember this being the first 18 rated movie I ever saw at the cinema....at the age of 17. It has just been re-released after Kubrick's death. Such a genius and brilliant movie of which quality you just don't see anymore. Everything from the costume, to the dialogue, to the variety of characters, to the trippy artwork.
I'm from the USA, and 58 now. I first saw "A Clockwork Orange" in the mid '80s. I've watched it a few times since. If you haven't seen it yet, and want to have your mind blown, check it out.
another major difference from the novel: originally, Alex is supposed to be just 14 years old (which is why he gets such a relatively light sentence for murder), but he was bumped up to 16 so Malcolm McDowall (who was 27 at the time of filming) could realistically pass for that age. Also, in the novel, the two girls that Alex picks up at the record store are supposed to be a LOT younger than him, but thankfully in the movie they appear to be the same age as him.
one last thing: Alex has no last name in the novel (though he does refer to himself as "Alexander the Large" when having his fun with the little girls); "DeLarge" was chosen to reference this dialogue. However, if you pay close attention, whenever we see the newspapers talking about Alex, his last name is given as "Burgess", no doubt named after the author
No wonder Malcolm McDowell look so young in this film he was in his 20s when he made this film he’s in his 80s now
I've seen the sequel..."A wind-up banana".
I'll get my coat.
I saw the prequel a "steam powered grape".
You can probably see "A Battery-powered Banana" on PornHub .... Or so I have been told... er... by a friend.
Do Android's dream of electric vibrating cucumbers
This whole thread needs to leave lol
The sequels called "Acme Gladious
*_And somewhere in the real world, Internet slangs like "bruh" becomes a thing now. Nadsat has predicted the future. What a horrorshow indeed!_*
Best. Pic. Ever.
Ohhh yes my dear brother
Bruh is not internet slang
AMEN
@@drayda0 It does.
It was readily available in Canada and i watched it as a 13 year old...it sparked my love for the Moog sound. Most should know what I'm talking about
Yup! Robert Arthur Moog, inventor of the Moog Modulator(s) and Moog Synthesizers. Not only Wendy Carlos worked with him, so did Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame.
I actually saw A Clockwork Orange at an underground alternative cinema in Brisbane back in 1991.
I don't remember the name of the cinema but this was my first viewing of the movie and it was really something else.
You have no idea how delighted I was to see Malcolm McDowell appear in my notifications.
Thank you for making my week, Minty!
Viddy well, brother!
As much of a fan as I am both the novel and film even I still cringe at some moments lol. Ppl really need to give this a view if only once or twice. It provides such a great psychological insight to the world of a troubled youth and really presents some good "What if" moments. Great job Minty!
I knew that when i saw this film in it's X version in the mid-70's, it was destined to be a classic.
This movie was very important to my high school teachers here in Brazil. So, imagine how I felt when they made us Analyse the movie as a school homework! I was 15, became an instant fan of Beethoven and Wendy Carlos.
I bought a VHS copy (with full case etc) in Greece in 1992. One viewing I let it run to the end after the credits. It had been recorded off of American TV.
10 things you didn't know about, Caligula.
Yes !!
Has someone been listening to the new TOOL album??
congrats.
What if stanley kubrick directed caligula
That movie was nasty.
Lol, thought the same thing
“Apppypolylogiees” one of my favorite movies and books. Droooooogies!
I just said that 2 days ago...
...& countless times before that.
& of course
WELLYWELLYWELLYWELLYWELL!
Alex's famous suicide attempt from his point of view was done by simply throwing a running Bolex camera off a building. Amazingly the camera was still in working order when it was recovered.
Would an Australian Droog be a "Digeri-droog"?
Top kek
Nice
They're digeri-doin' it. Gettin' it digeri-done.
That is the best of questions!
Hahaaa
Good job noticing the David Prowse/Darth Vader connection. Almost NO ONE makes note of that!
david prowse aka the green cross man!!!!!!!
I noticed that David Prowse was in A Clockwork Orange after watching it for the first time on Netflix.
Just learned this myself after ACO has been my favourite movie since 2004. I learned last year that Chief Barnes was in Patton. I noticed upon my first viewing that Mr. Deltoid was the undertaker in The Wicker Man. The Minister also acted in To The Manor Born.
R.I.P David Prowse he passed previous year 2020.
Kubrik was a true genious...I saw it in theatres in the 70's on mescaline. The best way to watch it.
I saw it tripping too, lol! Talk about a trip!!!
What?!? No love for Carlos and her amazing soundtrack?
"They don't call me Dim no more. Officer they call me now!" - Dim
Great line kids picked on becoming cops so they can be boss
I think the video missed, or I missed it in the video, that the movie has Dim and the other Droog from Alex's gang as the cops, while I thought Dim's partner in the book was Officer Billyboy..?
@@erikt454 Yes it was Billyboy in the book. In the book Georgie was shot and killed by the owner of the home that he broke into. Briefly mentioned to Alex when his parents visit him in prison.
I watched this very good video and then went to the fridge and poured myself a glass of milk. Cheers!
I saw it in the cinema in Glasgow when I was 16 and me and my mates dressed like droogs (all bar the ball protectors) for a summer pretending we were hard, but were nothing of the sort of course. lol. I even lived in Thamesmead in the late 80's. What a movie and what a soundtrack! Easily in my top 5.
I love all your stuff, Minty but particularly love it when you do 1970's movies and I continue to hold out hope that you'll do Logan's Run someday.
King Malcolm LOGANS RUN👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
King Malcolm YES!! My favorite movie of all time.
Logan’s Run, I’m sure it’s cheesy and dated now but I’d still see it again if I could find it! What fun!
Loved Logans Run when I was a kid. Found it on the internet two weeks ago and started watching. Turned off after half-hour. Boy that was rough.
@@players7686 Try reading the book. It has a lot more to it, plus you don't get distracted by the comical special effects, which were bad even for the 70s.
While I acknowledge the greatness and masterpiece of this movie, it's also one of the most disturbing ever. Takes a bold and open mind to truly appreciate this mind kind of a movie.
He described rape with a casual expression of it being *a bit of the ole in and out* and I've not been right ever since.
mind kind of a movie? wtf does that stupid shit even mean?
Yeah I love dystopian flicks but this one never really did much for me. To each their own, I suppose.
The worse thing is that the things that Alex and his crew did in the movie are CHILDSPLAY to what some youth offenders and gangs do today. Alongside the likes of MS13, Alex and his drooges seem like alter boys, and even a deprogrammed Alex would go full feoteal in today's world of urban violence.
I saw it at age 17 for the first time. Watched it several times since then. Now I own the dvd.
Also read the book.
Great flick!!!
You forgot that Malcolm McDowell (despite Alex being very fond of his pet snake) was terrified of the things.
20 years later and i just realized that Simpsons episode where Santas Little Helper went to Mr Burns n became one of his hounds. Burns did to the dog what happened to Alex in ACO. Eye clamps and all.
There's also a Simpsons Halloween episode that has Bart dressed as Alex.
@@deadcatthinks6725 yeah bro hes got that paint around his eye wearing the outfit from the movie.
They also made a brilliant parody of the theater scene is an episode in which Lisa was testing whether Bart was dumber than a guinea pig.
There was a scene in some Simpsons episode that recreated the scene where Alex is in bed being fed by the nurse too, maybe the same one?
10 THINGS YOU DIDNT KNOW ABOUT ‘THE WALL’!!!
Can't wait for that one
Oh, Please, Yes!
TRUMPS WALL ? TRUMP 2020
Look out or The Nostalgia Critic will found you..
@@HAMRADIOJOE4178 hahaha that was realy funny man
I remember back in the 80s when i was a lot younger my dad used to rent films from the local video store, The Exorcist, Death Wish etc, I was not allowed to watch them, but one day it all changed, and they were withdrawn banned etc, after that myself and my dad set out on a mission to try to track them down, they were like gold dust, and as I got older I got more and more into trying to get hold of banned movies, i managed to get hold of a very blurry copy of The Exorcist and a decent copy of Straw Dogs, I then learned about A Clockwork Orange, read the book and loved it, but could not get hold of a copy of the movie, then many years later finally got to see it and now its one of my top movies!
Or: How to turn a *Negative*
into a *Positive!*
A lifelong pursuit, hobby, what have ye.
Now, when this "banning"
is done with drugs & booze
& etc., however...
Was never banned here in the Good Old US of A.
When I took the NTE (National Teacher's Exam) back in the mid 80s, one section presented us with pictures from A Clockwork Orange. We were asked page after page of questions about forced perspective, back lighting, etc. I was certainly glad I'd had a lot of photography classes, and was a theatre major. It was unbelievable! Many of my friends, who didn't have the same training, failed it.
Surely the BASEBALL gang from " The Warriors" was droog inspired and worth a mention?
I think all the gangs in "The Warriors" were inspired in some way by this movie.
Randall Koch That, or by the odd nationalities on the route from Persian Sardis back to Greece. The Warriors was very inspired by Xenophon’s Anabasis, although that was left off the TV version that I saw before getting it on DVD.
@@Egilhelmson Too True! With a little 'The Odyssey' for Drama!
The Warriors was a book written in the mid sixties.although the story is similar the gangs weren't so colourful.worth reading if you interested in social history,or even New York history
I remember picking up the VHS tape in the late 80s on a holiday to Holland, as it was banned in the UK and Ireland lol.
Can't remember where I got it, but I had a VHS copy in late 80's or very early 90's in Australia. And it wasn't a boot-leg copy.
Were you guys satisfied or disappointed when finally seeing this mythical film?
@@nibiru379 Neither.
I probably wanted to see it because it was supposed to be banned here, purely because of that. It was similar with other "controversial" films and books (e.g., Passions of Christ (film), Cannibal Holocaust etc even Life of Brian in some places film, Final Exit (book) etc.
I guess I enjoyed them - the VHS copies are retired but I still have them on DVD as well as electronic copies.
Each of those movies I would watch approximately yearly... they become old staples together with Rocky Horror etc that you can watch when you don't really want to watch a movie.
Each time they are seen though you usually come away with a different point of view, depending on who you watched it with and your emotions at that time.
I guess they are classics for a reason.
Lets not forget this movie influence the punk band the adicts🇬🇧🃏
and the song 'droogs don't run' by Cock Sparrer, which i coincidently heard listening to one of their albums yesterday before this popped up in my youtube.
And Chrome... what a band!!!! ua-cam.com/video/-_ntIQ7B7m8/v-deo.html
Also Lower Class Brats... At least visually
Definitely one of my favorite movies . Seen it dozens of times and will watch it whenever I get a chance. It's quite possibly my favorite movie.
My old paper back copy of the book, that I read shortly after the Earth cooled, does not have the missing last chapter. Now I'll have to find a new print and plow through it again. Also Heath Ledger's Joker immediately reminded me of Malcolm's Alex. Thanks Minty.
Hey, Mintie !
While banned in UK and AUS, the movie was quite available in other countries.
I grew up in Berlin in the 70's and 80's and the movie was running in a small local theatre in my neighbourhood...
For years they showed it every 5 or 6 weeks, at 10.30pm on saturday's ... and funnily the sunday's matinee was always Monthy Python's "Holy Grail"
Following Germany's classifications, it was rated +18 years and I was too young to see it myself... yet I was always intrigued about the movie's title and the still pictures in the theatre entrance lobby ...
Finally! Please do everything Kubrick
私にとってキューブリック作品の中で最も衝撃的で好きな作品！年に1回は必ずDVDで観ますね
I grew up in inner city Sydney. In 1982, on George Street in the CBD, just south of Liverpool Street, there was a tiny video rental shop where the owner, his name was Paris, rented VHS tapes he himself imported from Europe. Amongst the various titles of bazaar movies he had was A Clockwork Orange. I rented & copied it. Thanks, mate! It was the only copy I knew of that existed that anyone had until the advent of dvd's in the early 00s
Anyone interested in Burgess' take on the film can read it in the 1986 version's intro, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked". He had specific reasons for that final chapter ["arithmology" !?!] but also acknowledges, "I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgments may have been faulty. Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics."
thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/20/a-clockwork-orange-resucked/
Kubrick was telling Us about the all seeing 👁, long before it became "fashionable"..
Enjoyed this, thanks! Did my honors thesis on a comparison between "A Clockwork Orange" and "Fight Club" back in 2002. Genre, director style, sociology behind each one and the technical side of each. Miss studying films. Love your channel!
Great vid to sip my Milk-Plus to. Thanks as always Minty and keep them coming!
Watching this film makes us realize what kind of world we live in today.
Shaine White yes the teenagers are ruling with its leader the ultimate moron Trump
@@beauxbromwell5121
blind in one eye?
@chris younts Maybe NC-17 by today's standards if there was a remake with some of the graphic images in the book that Kubrick did not put in the movie. I am not saying there should be a remake, that just might turn out to be a crappy film. Let the original stand where it is at. It is still very futuristic even today and beyond our distance future.
And that rocking dildo that lady got killed on, most people can take it with very little grunting when in them lol
smokin poppa ?????? Was that in the movie?
When I was about 11 years-old and my brother 13ish, he had somehow gotten A Clockwork Orange as a summer reading assignment for school, with the option of either reading the book or watching the movie. Being barely literate (I'm exaggerating), he somehow borrowed a VHS copy from... somewhere and we watched it one day while the parents were at work. I have my doubts these days about the truthfulness of his claim that it was a school assignment.
I watched this movie in my 3rd year of high school. So in our class we were like 15 or 16 years old. I loved the movie but I think I was not mature enough to appreciate it
@@shopo6847 I saw it at 17 with one of my best friends and although we understood it (and I think being female - for me at least - adds a layer to this story that is not said), I see it through a deeper lens now being 39.
@@shopo6847 are teachers allowed to show r rated films to students?
@@jakesimmonds5043 I dont think so but this teacher was pretty crazy
You didn't bring up how much Burgess HATED the movie and even rereleased the book with a scathing rant against Kubrick.
A classic and a fave thank you Minty
Here's some things you don't know about A Clockwork Orange.
The "hospital" was filmed at my Alma mater, Uxbridge campus, Brunel university.
The concrete sand crawler is the lecture center.
The reception is the entrance to the maths building
The treatment room is the lecture hall 1.
The accommodation is one of the student rooms in Chepstow hall.
The furniture, decor and bedding in the old halls were identical when I was there, at the turn of the millennium.
They had not changed a thing in 40 years.
James Neave that’s amazing. Thank you for posting. Must be weird seeing it today.
@@TiggiTheWillful
No worries, here's some photos I took when I visited 8 years ago:
photos.app.goo.gl/KAws4rUXaJzCJrD96
And some more:
photos.app.goo.gl/J9cKQTL84J3zB7g59
These were taken 10 years after I graduated
Oh, that concrete sand crawler thing?
The lecture centre?
That's a listed building, an official 60s design classic.
Unique too, they left the wood mould on the building too, so the surface of the concrete has a wood pattern impressed into it
Alex is the Clockwork Orange, organic on the outside, but mechanical, and artificial on the inside.
Great viddy!! One of my most favorite movies!
I just bought the first edition book club version of this novel a couple weeks ago, couldn't leave the store without it!
"I feel a pain in me Gulliver! I think I'm going to be sick!!"
Bruce Timm, who produced Batman Beyond, said the Jokerz Motorcycle Gang was influenced by the Droogs.
that is clearly evident
@@scottmantooth8785 snobbish much?
@@DCMarvelMultiverse not really... just a huge geek who reads a lot
@@scottmantooth8785 For us geeks, it can be one and the same. Lol.
One of my favorite movies, thanks for this!
You didn't mention one of the most stunning facts about the movie:
it's a comedy.
There's a DVD commentary out there with Malcolm McDowell which confirms this. I actually had to rewatch the movie after seeing the commentary to get it, but it's true: this is arguably the darkest comedy ever made.
I've always seen it as a comedic film, despite all the raping and violencing. There are just too many cheap laughs in it for it to be a coincidence. I'm not even slightly shocked. :)
kind of. there's humour in it but i think the message is a little deeper. Institutions are a lot more violent and hypocritical than Alex could ever be. Kubrick attacks everyone here, even the left wing intellectual who turns mad when he finds out who Alex is. In effect, it's a deep criticism of society, like he had done with paths of glory (both got banned).
@@binitials Yeah. It's not exactly a comedy, more like satire. Kubrick had a knack for that stuff, Strangelove is also great.
Erik yes, it's pretty sarcastic. Even some of the violence can come across as funny like killing the cat lady with a stupid looking cock. Maybe Kubrick was making fun of this caricature of a posh English lady. I feel there's a strong social element to it.
I totally agree.
Also feel that it was quite a prediction of our society as it exists this day and age.
When I saw you did this movie, I wanted to start singing in the rain!
This is a classic movie. back in the 80's when I was a teenager. The only way you could see the clockwork orange was on pirate video. Everyone knew someone who could get it for you. Everyone wanted to see this movie back then. The Rolling stones nearly made this movie with Mick Jagger as Alex. What about 10 things about IF.
I saw it in a theater in the early 80s on a Navy base
You're wrong. I seen this movie in Chicago in i believe 1980 on a cable station called OnTV
@@TPaine1776 it was banned in the uk in the 80s because the government thought teenagers would copy the violence
One of my all-time favorites. Have watched it many times. Even did a term paper on it in college.
I did my English "o"grade on a clockwork orange and a book called "what witches do"....I got in a lot of trouble over that. Scottish education is great .
Thanks for your informative session!!!
NEVER WATCH WHILE ON L.S.D...... take my word for it.
Selby Peeples or mushrooms. Will never be the same
How bout mushrooms
Omfg now I want to
williams nopnope, shrooms was gor watching - Red vs. Blue (Halo series)
@@lindaellen5435its not recommended for first time tripper
Some suggestions:
RAD, Purple Rain, Revenge Of The Nerds,Tango and Cash, Pink Floyd's The Wall
I agree with The Wall, after Nostalia Critic's moronic review of it.
As an 18 year old I travelled with my friends to Paris from London to see this film.
Thank you, Minty, for this insightful look at one of my favorite movies.
Not one mention of Wendy Carlos' innovative electronic musical score which kind of kickstarted an explosion of electronic music in the seventies. -.-
Yes/no... Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" was probably the biggest influence back then. And also Wendy Carlos was actually a transgender man at that time. But I do agree: great synth music to accompany this film! ✌️
I stand corrected, Wendy Carlos was nearly 10 years ahead of JMJ and was instrumental in the development of the Moog synthesiser that created the electronic music genre. Interesting to know she also composed the music for both The Shining & Tron also.
Let’s not forget Tomita!
@chris younts She is now!
@@gts9920 Wendy Carlos had an interest in electronic sounds going back to the late 50's. She was one of the early pioneers of electronic music. But there were others before her going as far back to the 30's and throughout the 40's and early mid 50's. She worked with Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Modular(s) and Synthesizers.
Saw it in a high school creative writing class in the late '80s and haven't seen it since. It's uncomfortable to watch.
For me it's a pleasure how much Alex relishes in evil and Beethoven and the language distances itsef from the violence. I loved every aspect, but yes I can see how it can be disturbing
I read this in high school to piss off my catholic school teachers (which it did) and this became one of the most enjoyable experiences reading I've ever had. I had the british version and saw the movie after. I've been a fan of both since.
Great collection of interesting facts surrounding the film, even if I had heard a few before. My only complaint is your mic quality. If you'd be interesting in chatting about affordable mics I'd be more than happy to help you improve your quality, as the rest was so well done and you have a knack for editing and narrating. I'm a fan of the AT2005 for a mic below $100 USD. I dropped a sub :)
I love your work minty, cheers from puebla city, mexico, I'm your # 1 fan here, see ya!
I remember when A Clockwork Orange was first released, I was 15 years old and it had a X Rating. Two years later when I was still a young malchick at 17, I viddy it at the sinny. While I was vidding little Alex and his droogs at the sinny, I understood the whole film and the nadsat language, and it was real horrorshow. After a few more times vidding this film at the sinny, I finally bought the book and read it. Right, right, right, right O' my brothers, the novela was just as real horrorshow as the film.
Minty, O' my brother, you did not speak of the auto that little Alex and his droogs plucked from the tree, the M-505 Adams Brothers Probe 16, designed by former Marcos cars designers Dennis and Peter Adams. It was powered by a mid-mounted tuned Austin 1800 cc engine. Stanley Kubrick used the Probe 16 (AB/4) in the film and referred it as the Durango 95. There are only two left in the world (supposebly) one in Norway and one in Canada.
Minty, O' my brother. I did wonder when you were going to get around to 10 Things You Didn't Know About A Clockwork Orange. Maybe you had a bit of pain in the gulliver from doing too many 10 Things You Didn't Know, eh? Feeling better I take it, eh?
SHOULDN'T you be out tolchokking some chelloveks?
Excellent my droog.
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I loved this movie. Didn't know what they were saying half the time but definitely a movie not easily forgotten. Malcolm McDowell was excellent in his role.
Read the book, there is a look-up in the back of it.
That was another really interesting thing about becoming involved in this book and Movie with heavy themes about brain washing and conditioning... you're sort of conditioned to learn a new sort of language in the process.
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Waay cool.., THANK YOU for playing the 9th behind this.., just..Beautiful !!! ..🎸☠👍🎸...🥀
Mr Deltoid is my favourite character, hours of fun doing impressions of him..... Yes? Yeeees
I used to use Mr. Deltoid as a gamer tag & a dude from texas recognized it & we went back & forth saying lines & it was funny to hear his regular southern accent change to Deltoid.