Not only that but there were a buncha copycat crimes throughout England after the film came out that were blamed on CO & Kubrick didnt want that burden on his shoulders.
His movie kind of predicted that with the ending and the anti-government people being in turn a violent gang. I mean they thought his movie was promoting fascism when it was in reality anti-fascist, and in turn they... censor his movie...
I just read the book and then watched the movie and now I can’t stop thinking of it, specially the film with Stanley Kubrick’s cinematography SUCH A MASTERPIECE. I still wish Stanley Kubrick would’ve include the final chapter that was excluded in the book in American. Overall this movie is still perfect masterpiece.
The male host definitely was a big fan of the movie, she probably saw clips and thought it was too violent. I like how they cut out the part where they beat the old man at the start and Malcolm says "you cut out the best part!". You know he's still a fan of the old ultra violence.
empire What's ironic about this is that Kubrick himself totally regretted how violent he made the film. He didn't enjoy the acts of violence, he wanted to explore them
I love how Malcolm is very humble and gives all the credit to Kubrick and the author. Gosh, he is an amazing fantastic actor. The performance was so believable and omg CALIGULA is fucked up. Anyhow, looking at him sitting there in his later age, wow. well done. love the movies clip on the background too. Remembering him and looking at him now. If only Heath Ledger was still alive.
@@MyLessonsTV Lexx was a crazy fun sci fi collaboration from Germany & Canada i believe, I've just started a rewatch & while the effects are obviously dated its still a fun watch.....i hope in this time of remakes, prequels & sequels Lexx gets left alone, there's no way in todays climate that they could do it justice
I was the ripe old age of 11 when my dad, a psychologist, decided I was old enough to watch the movie A Clockwork Orange ...I question that decision to this day...however, I did watch it again many years later ( I was 30 ) , and seeing the movie when I was able to understand it quite a bit better made me realize how gifted Stanley Kubrick was.
@@andysmith8890 ...It's not like it ruined my innocence or anything like that...it just seemed a bit bizzare to intentionally take a little kid to that particular movie back then
Thats nothing mate, my dad, a truck driver now retired, used to let me watch Shogun Assasain when I was about 4. Plus I normally had a can of skol in my hand.
It's also worth pointing out that the violence in Clockwork Orange is dealt with responsibly. As McDowell pointed out there is not much blood. But it is more than that. The violence in this film makes me feel quite disgusted. On the first viewing I stopped watching at the rape scene. This is how violence is supposed to make us feel, much like how Alex gets sick after being "turned good" by the state. Violence in film is glamorised in action movies and this is far worse, yet when somebody shows violence to be nasty it causes controversy! It seems a very backward way to behave.
I agree. It's not supposed to be glossed over or glamorous . If art is a reflection of actual life, then violence in movies shouldn't be made to look cool or rewarding.
Violence isn't just gore though. As modern horror seems to think Violence is the way its handled. A man getting torn apart in graphic detail might get a decent rating. A young 7 year old getting yelled at and told "come here you little *sl* and cuts away before he reaches her is more a rating in contrast. Violence is always horrific. It's how you cut it and handle it maturely. Sorry for the gloves off imagery but it's true. Watching a guy get evicerated and a young girl beaten is polar opposite in film but isn't in life. I find violent imagery works best when implied.
@@isaiahgonzales9989 Dumb is a bit harsh. Ignorant is the better term. Completely ignorant of what film as a art form can be. Something even the so called greatest film critic of all time Roger Ebert didn't remotely understand until Gene Siskell's passing back in 2003.
...and , as well pointed out in another comment here...the movie shows acts of violence for what they truely are...sickening to the stomach to watch, which is to say, the movie does not glorify violence, it shows how awful it is to the victims
well, no e on Hannibal, though that is beside the point. Malcolm McDowell was in this movie well before Silence of the Lambs ever came to be... so shouldnt it be "Anthony Hopkins would make a good Alex"??
Malcolm really knows his pop culture and how the movie lives in it. You cannot find a better actor than Malcolm right there. He embraced his character and knew of its importance in movie history and pop culture. Not many like him. Bravo.
My son and I met Malcolm on a street corner in Santa Monica many years ago. I thanked him for his work and we shook hands. He seemed genuinely grateful. Impossible to know for certain if he was, because he's a brilliant fucking actor.
Oh, the one he wears at the record store? Yeah! That would have been epic. www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia2.fdncms.com%2Fmemphisflyer%2Fimager%2Fu%2Fslideshow%2F5911581%2Fclockworkdix.gif&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memphisflyer.com%2FFilmTVEtcBlog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F04%2F01%2Fnever-seen-it-watching-a-clockwork-orange-with-memphis-flyer-editor-bruce-vanwyngarden&docid=SOiT5OisDIs-KM&tbnid=XKste1SFzurqvM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi3kqaQp7blAhWIxFkKHQuCDWgQMwhPKBAwEA..i&w=619&h=301&bih=1297&biw=2560&q=malcolm%20mcdowell%20clockwork%20orange%20record%20store%20scene&ved=0ahUKEwi3kqaQp7blAhWIxFkKHQuCDWgQMwhPKBAwEA&iact=mrc&uact=8 (in the book those two girls are like 11 and 12 years old - Alex is 15 I believe)
@@superamanda the book was in 64. The movie released the same year of 71 as clockwork in fact it released about 5 months before clockwork. The original good one not the shitty remake. So yes even I thought of willy wonka in the record store.
Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you! I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime. I'm not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.
Tom Hollander does a fantastic job voice acting the original Burgess novel. It’s not a simple feat, if you’ve read the book. He even sounds a bit like Malcom. “What’s it going to be then, eh?” It’s a literary masterpiece and makes more sense to me than Shakespeare when I first read it.
Actually, Heath talked with Jaz Coleman, frontman for Killing Joke, who was the inspiration for Alan Moore's Joker. YES, that is the connection with the title of the comic. Band --> Comic --> Ledger.
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite films of all time. I have a huge collection of movies but a short list of movies I watch over and over: Brazil, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blade Runner, The Godfather. Just put me on a desert island with these movies and I'll be okay. Also I'll need food and water.
Mine are "2001", CO, "Dark Star", "The Man Who fell to Earth", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "The Tenant", "Stalker", "Brazil", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "Beyond the Black Rainbow". I think that comes pretty close to a list of the best films ever made.
I got a pirate copy in 1990. Loved all the weird details of it. The music. The costumes. The familiar looking locations. The language. A loved the novel. Opened me up to all sorts of literature. The violence in it is tame by today's standards. But it still works at making you uncomfortable. Which was the point.
2:31 The perfect actor for the role. Just look at his smile. He was also great in "oh lucky man" and "if...". But I can imagine he didn't get many roles because he was so connected to Clockwork orange - one of the best film ever made.
It's interesting how that many years later there are younger generations (like myself) that adore this movie even to this day. It takes a genius (Stanley Kubrick) and pure talent (Malcolm McDowell) to make a film that had such a lasting impact for many years down the road, and still does. I think it is 42 years old now, I'm only 18 but to me this movie is brilliant. I am thankful that my generation can experience such art as this. Well at least some of my generation anyways.
And let's face it. Today, he wouldn't fool any audiences watching A Clockwork Orange for the first time. He was so obviously a 28 year old playing a teenager. It's more likely to show up now in the remastered and cleaned up film. But Malcolm McDowell did it brilliantly.
@@chopboxing6197 Well, 28 is still young, but the character was supposed to be about 15 or 16. We just pretend not to notice because we're used to what they call "Dawson casting".
Love Malcolm McDowell and I'm 29 years old! Young Malcolm was so handsome! Still has that charm now and is so down to earth! People say he has aged badly however he is 75 now I think? He also did drugs and had an alcohol problem years ago I believe? So I actually think he looks good for his age!
Visiting the UK from South Africa in 1973, my wife and I decided to park up at Stonehenge to watch the sun rise. To kill time we went into Salisbury to watch a film. Turned out to be A Clockwork Orange. Didn't get much sleep in the car that night.
You were lucky. The next year Kubrick wouldn't allow it in his adopted country from the next year until his death. The discussions with the police have never been confirmed and Kubrick never discussed it. A rape and a severe assault certainly had copycat elements from the film.
My FAVORITE movie of all time. Who doesn’t enjoy vidding a bit of ultra-violence mixed in with a bit of the ol’ in-out in-out. It was top of the line horrorshow.
I was 11 when the movie came out in '71, and therefore too young to see it, but not too young to read the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. I finally saw the movie with some friends later while in High School. LOVED IT! I felt the movie did it justice and of course, the superb acting by Mr. McDowell and the rest of the cast, under the wonderful guidance of Kubric elevated it to an art form. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. McDowell in Roswell a few years ago. He has a fantastic memory and is one of the smartest and wisest people you could possibly meet. All good wishes, Sir!
probably my favourite movie of all time. it is very humourous though i can see how sombody whos sense of humour has a diffrent kind of filter might not think so.
***** the movie is about the illusion of control the government believes they have over the people, that thinks it can be in complete scientific control, with their monstrous experiments, which fail horribly. the human consciousness, no matter how wretched, can't be controlled or changed by force, whether righteous or malicious. nobody can be forced to change, you have to want it badly enough, but some minds are too far gone to be affected. in other words, alex was just too crazy. he enjoyed it too much to quit.
I think the film is about hypocrisy, where every single character is defined by the hypcrisy to believe they're any better than Alex and that there's any need to cure him at all. For Kubrick, we're all just equally rotten and evil, only some of are hypocrites for thinking there would be any good in us at all. Hence, there's not a single character in the entire film that's actually likable, to show that we all have "Little Alexes" inside of us and that trying to remove him from inside of us would be worse than anything Alex has ever done. Which is all very unlike Burgess's book, which is not about hypocrisy but about free will and that we all have the potential to good inside us, even somebody like Alex. In the book, Alex is the only character who's evil, he's only 15 when they're putting him in jail, and in the final chapter, he simply grows up and out of his runaraound droog days. Kubrick has made him almost twice as old (McDowell was almost 30 when he played him, which was deliberate on Kubrick's casting choice) to show it's not some issue of growing up, refused to film the final chapter even though Burgess insisted he should, and he made it so we don't see a single likable character in the entire film.
I’ll never forget watching the movie 33 years ago when I threw a acid party at my house. It blew our minds! My one friend was hiding in the basement saying turn of the music...turn off the music over and over. We laugh about it to this day ha ha ha. By the way that movie was originally banned from Canada. An ultimate classic! Still have a poster of the movie I bought in my early twenties.
Malcolm McDowell shouting out Slipknot was super cool. Shawn Crahan aka "Clown" always sites A Clockwork Orange as his favorite movie. Malcom even made an appearance in one of their music videos.
So do I, I remember after the seeing the film people were dressing up in the same gear and forming little crews. I found it exciting yet very disturbing beating the old paddy up, was there a rape scene in it? I'm old me memories shot. I come from an era where you needed a lonsdale belt to get into a club not a ticket lol but there two things that were unconprehendable beating up old duffers up and rape. Groundbreaking film for sure I must watch it again.
The Greatest Director of all time has to be British (so to speak), something that Americans can never understand or be, a true Genius and a remarkable man.....Hollywood owns to Britain everything and Cinema owns everything to Actors such as Malcom Mcdowell
There's no evidence any of that happened in the UK. Some rapes were linked to it and some violence was and it is believed that was behind Kubrick withdrawing it in Britain but direct threats to the Kubrick family in the UK are without foundation. If I recall correctly there were worries for some of them visiting Italy where there were threats.
So people threatened to kill Kubrick and his family because they thought his film was violent... wow...
Irony
Not only that but there were a buncha copycat crimes throughout England after the film came out that were blamed on CO & Kubrick didnt want that burden on his shoulders.
wild as fuck
His movie kind of predicted that with the ending and the anti-government people being in turn a violent gang. I mean they thought his movie was promoting fascism when it was in reality anti-fascist, and in turn they... censor his movie...
G-Raw. That's--the story I've heard many times, with the Scotland yard link. And--Copy-Cat lunatics everywhere else.
It's one of those movies that people will never stop talking about.
You absolutly right
Forgettable to me.
Hugh Jones romper stomper
Nor will ever forget - like any other Great Movie !
I just read the book and then watched the movie and now I can’t stop thinking of it, specially the film with Stanley Kubrick’s cinematography SUCH A MASTERPIECE. I still wish Stanley Kubrick would’ve include the final chapter that was excluded in the book in American. Overall this movie is still perfect masterpiece.
Malcolm's side smile is the best thing ever!
He was so sexy in that movie. He's still good looking.
The male host definitely was a big fan of the movie, she probably saw clips and thought it was too violent.
I like how they cut out the part where they beat the old man at the start and Malcolm says "you cut out the best part!". You know he's still a fan of the old ultra violence.
The best part was the milk-bottle, but Alex took a Dim view of it.
Tom Evans hah, nice one.
Death!!!
empire What's ironic about this is that Kubrick himself totally regretted how violent he made the film. He didn't enjoy the acts of violence, he wanted to explore them
Wayne Rocha I'd argue that's most human beings :-)
Although he wasn't by any accounts a violent person, thankfully. That's what great art's for.
I love how Malcolm is very humble and gives all the credit to Kubrick and the author. Gosh, he is an amazing fantastic actor. The performance was so believable and omg CALIGULA is fucked up. Anyhow, looking at him sitting there in his later age, wow. well done. love the movies clip on the background too. Remembering him and looking at him now. If only Heath Ledger was still alive.
I don't care what anyone says, no matter how f'd up Caligula was, it was a masterpiece
Well, what's so fucked up about CALIGULA? He was great there and that's what made this movie even better.
Check out his performance on Lexx(tv show). So much fun.
@@MyLessonsTV Lexx was a crazy fun sci fi collaboration from Germany & Canada i believe, I've just started a rewatch & while the effects are obviously dated its still a fun watch.....i hope in this time of remakes, prequels & sequels Lexx gets left alone, there's no way in todays climate that they could do it justice
@@woodrude78 I whole-heartedly agree.
6:55 Malcolms face when the interviewer starting listing off other songs outside of classical from the soundtrack will never fail to warm my heart
...very annoying how the interviewer dead named Wendy Carlos to show how 'smart he is' while also mispronouncing Moog...
He's such a great actor.
He hadn't worn too well though, and that was 2011.
@@MrDaiseymay Malcolm McDowell is the most beautiful man on earth.
Great news!
I was the ripe old age of 11 when my dad, a psychologist, decided I was old enough to watch the movie A Clockwork Orange ...I question that decision to this day...however, I did watch it again many years later ( I was 30 ) , and seeing the movie when I was able to understand it quite a bit better made me realize how gifted Stanley Kubrick was.
Best dad ever!
I question that decision, too.
Dads make mistakes....cut him a break mate
@@andysmith8890 ...It's not like it ruined my innocence or anything like that...it just seemed a bit bizzare to intentionally take a little kid to that particular movie back then
Thats nothing mate, my dad, a truck driver now retired, used to let me watch Shogun Assasain when I was about 4. Plus I normally had a can of skol in my hand.
It's also worth pointing out that the violence in Clockwork Orange is dealt with responsibly. As McDowell pointed out there is not much blood. But it is more than that. The violence in this film makes me feel quite disgusted. On the first viewing I stopped watching at the rape scene. This is how violence is supposed to make us feel, much like how Alex gets sick after being "turned good" by the state. Violence in film is glamorised in action movies and this is far worse, yet when somebody shows violence to be nasty it causes controversy! It seems a very backward way to behave.
I agree. It's not supposed to be glossed over or glamorous . If art is a reflection of actual life, then violence in movies shouldn't be made to look cool or rewarding.
Thanks for your enriching comment. I read the book,saw the film 46 years ago etc. I like your idea
Very well said
Violence isn't just gore though. As modern horror seems to think Violence is the way its handled. A man getting torn apart in graphic detail might get a decent rating. A young 7 year old getting yelled at and told "come here you little *sl* and cuts away before he reaches her is more a rating in contrast. Violence is always horrific. It's how you cut it and handle it maturely. Sorry for the gloves off imagery but it's true. Watching a guy get evicerated and a young girl beaten is polar opposite in film but isn't in life. I find violent imagery works best when implied.
Why I don't watch Quentin Tarantino movies. When asked why his movies were so violent Tarantino said "because people like it".
What is up with all this women hating? I'm a woman and I love A clockwork orange, it has an amazing cast and life changing messages.
It's because people are confused, and most likely dumb. They don't know what the movie is saying lol
@@isaiahgonzales9989 Dumb is a bit harsh. Ignorant is the better term. Completely ignorant of what film as a art form can be. Something even the so called greatest film critic of all time Roger Ebert didn't remotely understand until Gene Siskell's passing back in 2003.
...and , as well pointed out in another comment here...the movie shows acts of violence for what they truely are...sickening to the stomach to watch, which is to say, the movie does not glorify violence, it shows how awful it is to the victims
@@taliamason7986 Stupidity and ignorance go hand in hand
Me too!😄
I think this guy would have made a good Hannible Lecter.
I think I heard somewhere that the leer he gives the audience at the beginning was influenced by the Norman Bates leer
I think I heard that too.
Mitchell Leary
i dont remember hearing it. But i've certainly read it ...... Somewhere ortuther... an quite recently as it happens
Justice237 - That makes sense, Stanley or Malcolm probably did lift that with the slow pull-away.
well, no e on Hannibal, though that is beside the point. Malcolm McDowell was in this movie well before Silence of the Lambs ever came to be... so shouldnt it be "Anthony Hopkins would make a good Alex"??
The bodybuilder assistant to the older man in the wheelchair was none other than the actor behind the Darth Vader costume, David Prowse.
He was the monster in the "Horror of Frankenstein" from 1970
RIP
Yup, all 6'6" of him.
@@graemefarquharson465 Yep. Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell too.
He also stared in The Champions and Callan .
Malcolm really knows his pop culture and how the movie lives in it. You cannot find a better actor than Malcolm right there. He embraced his character and knew of its importance in movie history and pop culture. Not many like him. Bravo.
My son and I met Malcolm on a street corner in Santa Monica many years ago. I thanked him for his work and we shook hands. He seemed genuinely grateful. Impossible to know for certain if he was, because he's a brilliant fucking actor.
I love this
He hated you.
Just where did you gain the word fxxxxxx from, idiot!?
Malcolm should have turned up in that puple pimp suit he wears on A Clockwork Orange would of been badass
Oh, the one he wears at the record store? Yeah! That would have been epic. www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia2.fdncms.com%2Fmemphisflyer%2Fimager%2Fu%2Fslideshow%2F5911581%2Fclockworkdix.gif&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memphisflyer.com%2FFilmTVEtcBlog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F04%2F01%2Fnever-seen-it-watching-a-clockwork-orange-with-memphis-flyer-editor-bruce-vanwyngarden&docid=SOiT5OisDIs-KM&tbnid=XKste1SFzurqvM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi3kqaQp7blAhWIxFkKHQuCDWgQMwhPKBAwEA..i&w=619&h=301&bih=1297&biw=2560&q=malcolm%20mcdowell%20clockwork%20orange%20record%20store%20scene&ved=0ahUKEwi3kqaQp7blAhWIxFkKHQuCDWgQMwhPKBAwEA&iact=mrc&uact=8 (in the book those two girls are like 11 and 12 years old - Alex is 15 I believe)
I love that jacket but I don't think it was a pimp coat
I remember seeing him in that suit and I'm thinking, "Did he just raid Willy Wonka's closet?!"
@@melissacooper4282 Clockwork Orange predates Wonka!
@@superamanda the book was in 64. The movie released the same year of 71 as clockwork in fact it released about 5 months before clockwork.
The original good one not the shitty remake.
So yes even I thought of willy wonka in the record store.
RIP Warren Clarke ( Dim )
May he rest in peace with his uzie and chains by his side.
Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you! I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime. I'm not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.
F
@@jefftateii9403 Ill scrap anytime you say.
lance uppercut gamebred
Mr. McDowell, please do an audiobook of the novel!
That would be awesome!!
@@mdh6977 To me it's a no-brainer, but--- who knows why not? Maybe McDowell wants way too much money....
Have you tried to listen to it on audiobook? You can’t understand what they’re saying at all. 🤣
Tom Hollander does a fantastic job voice acting the original Burgess novel. It’s not a simple feat, if you’ve read the book.
He even sounds a bit like Malcom.
“What’s it going to be then, eh?”
It’s a literary masterpiece and makes more sense to me than Shakespeare when I first read it.
Malcolm McDowell is one of a kind. No other actor quite like him.
Agree. Perfect for clockwork orange. He has that menacing quality!
Thats cz hes from Leeds
Heath Ledger's inspiration to be Joker.
Thank you, Alex!
Kyle Campbell Malcolm Mcdowell was the best person to play Alexandre Delarge. Heath Ledger was, is and will always be the best joker. 🙏🏻
Sorry mate Jack Nicholson as Joker was better than Heath Ledger.
Actually, Heath talked with Jaz Coleman, frontman for Killing Joke, who was the inspiration for Alan Moore's Joker. YES, that is the connection with the title of the comic. Band --> Comic --> Ledger.
@@cissyh.5385 no
Nigel McKenna Sorry mate no he wasn’t
That was a poor choise of scenes. You can barely see him in the scene...
Just when a close-up of his face was imminent, they ended the excerpt.
The film is based on a fictitious book. You are there for calling a figment of someone's imagination a "cunt".
Luke Cops he was tho, you can call characters cunts based on their actions you know you dumbass
Luke Cops you must be a complete spastic
Yes, and she repeatedly refers to Malcolm's character as "Alex". I remember his name as "Alec". I think Malcolm was being too polite to correct her.
I was hoping to see a bit of the old 'in out in out' with the female presenter. Disappointed.
lol 😁😁😁😁😁
No time for that missus, just came to read the meter.
In this case the teleprompter.
Cigarettes & Alcohol hahaha
"My mind is a blank, now I will smash you"
She's hot, but I'd prefer it to be consensual, unlike Alex.
A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite films of all time. I have a huge collection of movies but a short list of movies I watch over and over: Brazil, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blade Runner, The Godfather. Just put me on a desert island with these movies and I'll be okay. Also I'll need food and water.
TrippyTube true man, i used to be a gamer now i just watch movies
2001, A Clockwork Orange and Blade Runner. That's all you need.
TrippyTube Yeaaaaa man 😂
Mine are "2001", CO, "Dark Star", "The Man Who fell to Earth", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "The Tenant", "Stalker", "Brazil", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "Beyond the Black Rainbow". I think that comes pretty close to a list of the best films ever made.
TrippyTube and big black swinging cocks and tits
"Eh....no time for the 'ol in-and-out love, just come to check the meter!"
Classic.
Next year this movie will be 50 yr old ! I love how Malcom mentioned Slip knot, he was in one of there music video’s for a song called “ Snuff “! 💕👍🏻💕
50 years later and this movie is still great
he was 27 years old when the movie was filmed from late September 1970 to February 1971.
The film has not "achieved cult status." It is widely recognized world-wide as a masterpiece by one of the greatest directors of the 20th century.
Malcolm has ONE of those voices you could listen to for ages, Richard Burton, James Mason, Sean Connery ect.
James Earl Jones too. Those two actual did a bit spoofing on their magnificent voices.
RIP
When he mentioned James masons name in reference to lolita, he actually sounded like James mason.
I agree with both of you! A few good voices are amazing forever! I feel lucky just to hear it.
No matter what happens, no matter what other movies Malcolm might be in he will always be known first and foremost for A Clockwork Orange.
"Warner Bros. have put out the Blu-ray on DVD"
Oh Malcolm XD
afterwards it was taken on laserdisc!
I own the DVD on VHS!
Cut him some slack he’s old
@@OpticalHaze And then sent out on betamax.
or he could have been saying "blu-ray and DVD" but he mumbled his words
Today is the 50th anniversary .Great movie .
I remember walking out on the film back in 1971
From which scene.
Malcolm is dressed like Travis Bickle.
Holy shit! Yeah he is! My two favorite films together. Taxi Driver and A Clockwork Orange
Lol
+Gwasgray Ha! You're right!
Taxi Orange! XD
But Malcolm looks like Mike Travis!
Oh it's so cute when he says slipnot is the latest one. I doubt anyone will give a fuck about slipnot in 40 years. Ah, long live Malcolm.
you are forgetting about metalheads who aren't your dumb ass, shut the fuck up.
sebastien berube they aren't metal
@calabiyou Haha, good call.
I got a pirate copy in 1990. Loved all the weird details of it. The music. The costumes. The familiar looking locations. The language. A loved the novel. Opened me up to all sorts of literature. The violence in it is tame by today's standards. But it still works at making you uncomfortable. Which was the point.
can you you spare me some cutter my brothers
ME brothers.
That’s absolutely brilliant directing!
A typical old style Dubliner with old old sailor English !!!
The premise of A Clockwork Orange really isn't that far off from modern reality.
So many Modern teens are completely uncaring and psychotic.
Essentially, we've got there
It's not really "modern" it's the way it's always been.
Oh my God. That powerful iconic image 🕑🍊
He's so patient with these two..
You're right, as serious interviewers they are both a waste of space.
2:31 The perfect actor for the role. Just look at his smile. He was also great in "oh lucky man" and "if...". But I can imagine he didn't get many roles because he was so connected to Clockwork orange - one of the best film ever made.
Life time achievement award for Mr McDowell, please.
It's interesting how that many years later there are younger generations (like myself) that adore this movie even to this day. It takes a genius (Stanley Kubrick) and pure talent (Malcolm McDowell) to make a film that had such a lasting impact for many years down the road, and still does. I think it is 42 years old now, I'm only 18 but to me this movie is brilliant. I am thankful that my generation can experience such art as this. Well at least some of my generation anyways.
What's it like to be 25?
- your old pal, Ludwig van
Of course he looks old. He IS old, and he did not exactly lead a healthy lifestyle for many years. He is still total class though.
And let's face it. Today, he wouldn't fool any audiences watching A Clockwork Orange for the first time. He was so obviously a 28 year old playing a teenager. It's more likely to show up now in the remastered and cleaned up film. But Malcolm McDowell did it brilliantly.
@@zemxxi2765 he looked young to me
@@chopboxing6197 Well, 28 is still young, but the character was supposed to be about 15 or 16. We just pretend not to notice because we're used to what they call "Dawson casting".
I know people in their 40s that are less mentally sharp and lively than he is
Malcolm McDowell is so f’n great! Such a great actor! Love this dude!
Love Malcolm McDowell and I'm 29 years old! Young Malcolm was so handsome! Still has that charm now and is so down to earth! People say he has aged badly however he is 75 now I think? He also did drugs and had an alcohol problem years ago I believe? So I actually think he looks good for his age!
That's called character my dear boy.
Malcom looks his age now, but he has looked this way for the past 25 years. He looked really old when he was in his 40s and 50s
Best film of that year. Gonna get my troupe of Ultraviolets and sing a few singing in the rain songs...wat jollys
Kubrick had McDowell nailed on to play Alex after he saw him in the Film If -
My good what an incredible man! Fantastic in every film he's been in and a truly lovely man as Well
I met Malcolm McDowell at a film convention quite a few, years ago nice guy.
Visiting the UK from South Africa in 1973, my wife and I decided to park up at Stonehenge to watch the sun rise. To kill time we went into Salisbury to watch a film. Turned out to be A Clockwork Orange. Didn't get much sleep in the car that night.
You were lucky. The next year Kubrick wouldn't allow it in his adopted country from the next year until his death. The discussions with the police have never been confirmed and Kubrick never discussed it. A rape and a severe assault certainly had copycat elements from the film.
Funny how many still react to this movie. I love the movie and still do have the dvd, and the music brilliant
Kubrick decided he wanted to cast Malcolm as Alex after he saw him in Lindsay Anderson's IF
Damn almost 50 years now
I saw that movie in our theatre... I was blown away.! Mid eighties somewhere...
"You missed the good bit!" 😂😂😂
He is a savage in real life too 😂🦭
i love malcolm mcdowell too much😍
I love a clockwork orange with my life❤️
I'd like to see all of the original actors from the first scene of the movie re-making it all this years after, it'd be so awesome.
Can't improve on perfection
Malcolm mcdowell. Great actor. Stanley kubrick. Great. Producer for a classic film a clockwork orange.
Malcolm mcdowell had that menacing look about him.
I wanted him to say "I still like listening to a bit of the old Ludwig van" in that northern accent.
One of the best performances from an actor EVER. I can't believe his performance wasn't even NOMINATED for an Oscar.
I have the biggest crush on Malcolm McDowell he’s absolutely gorgeous, I’d even date him as an older man
I felt so uneasy watching this for the first time but I knew I was watching something special.
Leonard Shelby yes, me too
In Russia, the Clockwork Oranges you
Just SINGING IN the RAIN!! (KICK!!!)😂
Malcolm McDowell is the best, such a good actor and person
And now it's 50 years ago.
Viddy well little brother viddy well
My FAVORITE movie of all time. Who doesn’t enjoy vidding a bit of ultra-violence mixed in with a bit of the ol’ in-out in-out. It was top of the line horrorshow.
I was 11 when the movie came out in '71, and therefore too young to see it, but not too young to read the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. I finally saw the movie with some friends later while in High School. LOVED IT! I felt the movie did it justice and of course, the superb acting by Mr. McDowell and the rest of the cast, under the wonderful guidance of Kubric elevated it to an art form. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. McDowell in Roswell a few years ago. He has a fantastic memory and is one of the smartest and wisest people you could possibly meet. All good wishes, Sir!
I like Malcolm expression when he said "do you remember that?!!" 😄
You can't beat a bit of the old Ludwig Van.
dont call me Dim call me Officer....lolz
probably my favourite movie of all time. it is very humourous though i can see how sombody whos sense of humour has a diffrent kind of filter might not think so.
Great interview from a great actor about a great film
He played a villian so well.
He's such a brilliant actor! A great film too! I never realized it was banned in Great Britain basically. 😮
Actually it was about sociopaths rather than psychopaths...
***** the movie is about the illusion of control the government believes they have over the people, that thinks it can be in complete scientific control, with their monstrous experiments, which fail horribly. the human consciousness, no matter how wretched, can't be controlled or changed by force, whether righteous or malicious. nobody can be forced to change, you have to want it badly enough, but some minds are too far gone to be affected. in other words, alex was just too crazy. he enjoyed it too much to quit.
A sociopath is the same as a psychopath.
I think the film is about hypocrisy, where every single character is defined by the hypcrisy to believe they're any better than Alex and that there's any need to cure him at all. For Kubrick, we're all just equally rotten and evil, only some of are hypocrites for thinking there would be any good in us at all. Hence, there's not a single character in the entire film that's actually likable, to show that we all have "Little Alexes" inside of us and that trying to remove him from inside of us would be worse than anything Alex has ever done.
Which is all very unlike Burgess's book, which is not about hypocrisy but about free will and that we all have the potential to good inside us, even somebody like Alex. In the book, Alex is the only character who's evil, he's only 15 when they're putting him in jail, and in the final chapter, he simply grows up and out of his runaraound droog days.
Kubrick has made him almost twice as old (McDowell was almost 30 when he played him, which was deliberate on Kubrick's casting choice) to show it's not some issue of growing up, refused to film the final chapter even though Burgess insisted he should, and he made it so we don't see a single likable character in the entire film.
Yes, on the ever-present hypocrisy front, but, Kubrick still leaves us options. Choose one: a) we are all equally worthless, b) we are all equal now.
tlatosmd well said, and for me, Alex is the most likeable of them all, and I root for him throughout the movie
Amazingly powerful actor ,long before I saw a clockwork orange my teenage mind was blown by "If " which of course made a huge impression o Kubrick too
I’ll never forget watching the movie 33 years ago when I threw a acid party at my house. It blew our minds! My one friend was hiding in the basement saying turn of the music...turn off the music over and over. We laugh about it to this day ha ha ha. By the way that movie was originally banned from Canada. An ultimate classic! Still have a poster of the movie I bought in my early twenties.
Pete H. Could have been a bad trip to your bro, don’t you think?
McDowell gave credit to Slipknot.... my life is complete lol
"put out the Blu-Ray on DVD"
If you ever get a chance to see it at the cinema you must go! i saw it in London earlier this year and there was a Q&A with Malcolm after
Wait wait wait wait wait, did Malcolm McDowell just mention Slipknot?
so so so what
malcolm starred in the music video for snuff by slipknot
+dragosh007 hahah
He is hip, the interviewers are as square and conservative as fcuk
@Marrowbones Limited time, short interview
People of all ages have seen this film. Like Scarface it's a legend that's still talked about and watched to this day.
a beautiful movie, I´m just 16 and i love it
Yoda I thought you were 900
@@joeytaylor1021 right? yea, im 475 and i love it. what the hell is the point of a comment like that?
Malcolm McDowell shouting out Slipknot was super cool. Shawn Crahan aka "Clown" always sites A Clockwork Orange as his favorite movie. Malcom even made an appearance in one of their music videos.
I remember watching this movie when I could just see R rated at 18 in a small southern town. I was taken aback, "So this is what grown-ups watch."
So do I, I remember after the seeing the film people were dressing up in the same gear and forming little crews. I found it exciting yet very disturbing beating the old paddy up, was there a rape scene in it? I'm old me memories shot. I come from an era where you needed a lonsdale belt to get into a club not a ticket lol but there two things that were unconprehendable beating up old duffers up and rape. Groundbreaking film for sure I must watch it again.
It was rated X when it first came out in the US.
@@gj8683 Yeah. I thiik youre rght: it was X.
I saw the comedy in it at the very beginning all those years ago and laughed almost all the way through.
The pure evil expression on Alex's face is so much scarier than any disfigurement or physical grotesqueness. It's the disfigurement underneath.
Great interview. I never see this quality in North America.
Nothing like a good black comedy. Swift would be proud.
The Greatest Director of all time has to be British (so to speak), something that Americans can never understand or be, a true Genius and a remarkable man.....Hollywood owns to Britain everything and Cinema owns everything to Actors such as Malcom Mcdowell
I'm 13 And I Idolise This Film And What It Stands For
Wow what a hero...
Visionnaire Mr Kubrick. L'hyperviolence est là ! Visionnaire.
The people threatening Kubrick's family because the film was too violent must've missed Irony class in school.
There's no evidence any of that happened in the UK. Some rapes were linked to it and some violence was and it is believed that was behind Kubrick withdrawing it in Britain but direct threats to the Kubrick family in the UK are without foundation. If I recall correctly there were worries for some of them visiting Italy where there were threats.
They should have threatened Kubrick's family because he pulled the Movie ...
Malcolm McDowell then AND now as The Riddler. Think of THOSE possibilities!
McDowell's hero Cagney would have been a sensation as The Riddler also...
Would have been better if he said "Hello my droogies"
the eyes are the window to the soul, just watched him in an interview when he was looking 18 or so
People: Kubrick's movie is soooo violent :(
The exact same people: *lEt'S kiLL hIm, wHIcH iS dEFiNitEly nOt a vIOLeNt oPTiOn*
I'm amazed!😱 His voice is the same never changes! He's old but he's an elegant old man. His voice is sexy .