Ken Russell was then nominated to direct because his style was considered well-suited for the material. He would have cast Oliver Reed as Alex. Tinto Brass was another possible director. At some point, someone suggested rewriting the droogs to be girls in miniskirts or old-age pensioners. Tim Curry and Jeremy Irons turned down the role of Alex. He felt the film later made the book, one of his least favorite books he had written, overshadow his other work.
Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist who did meticulous research, took thousands of photographs of potential locations, and did many takes of scenes; however, per Malcolm McDowell, he usually "got it right" early on, so there were few takes. No matter what it is -- even if it's a question of buying a shampoo it goes through him.
He just likes total control. Stanley Kubrick handled the advertising campaign, including posters, commercials, the trailer, etc. It is said that Stanley Kubrick made this movie because of the failure of Waterloo After many years of research, he sent location scouts to various Eastern European locations, and even had an agreement with the Yugoslav army to supply troops for the vast battle scenes.
However, after "Waterloo" tanked, Kubrick's financial backers pulled out. He thus decided to adapt the American version of "Clockwork", which had been given to him by Terry Southern co-writer of Dr.
When Alex is being drowned, there is a barely perceptible micro-cut in which Malcolm McDowell was able to use the oxygen mask that was hidden in the water. The bath was muddied by using Bovril, a beef extract.
Malcolm McDowell is actually urinating in the toilet scene early in the film, when he goes home and prepares for bed. He drank a lot of coffee before filming the shot. Malcolm McDowell suggested that it wasn't until the 21st century that audiences saw the film properly as a black-comedy, and that earlier audiences he saw the film with were always too unsettled by the opening 20 minutes of violence and rape scenes to appreciate the humor in the rest of the picture.
Terry Southern recommended the novel to Stanley Kubrick when they were working on the screenplay to Dr. On the commentary for the Special Edition, Alex toasting the viewer with his glass of milk is highlighted. This appears to occur at the 1. When Stanley Kubrick noticed this very subtle move in the dailies, he asked Malcolm McDowell if he realized what he had done.
McDowell said - "Stanley, I just wanted the audience to know they were in for one hell of a ride". It's an unfinished page manuscript that expands upon the themes in the original.
Despite the controversy and the unsettling content, this film is on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest movies of all time. Despite Alex's obsession with Beethoven, the soundtrack contains more music by Rossini than by Beethoven.
The fast-motion sex scene with the two girls, the slow-motion fight between Alex and his Droogs, the fight with Billy Boy's gang, the invasion of the Cat Lady's home, and the scene where Alex looks into the river and contemplates suicide before being approached by the beggar are all accompanied by Rossini's music.
However, because Kubrick wanted unlimited license to determine what portions or edits of the song he used, the band turned him down. When Alex is in the record store, we can see the soundtrack of Kubrick's own movie A Space Odyssey on a lower shelf with "Atom Heart Mother" above it look for the cow in the field.
Other records visible in the shop are Tim Buckley's "Lorca" , on the Island shelf when Alex enters the shop. The blonde girl with the lollipop can be seen looking at a Mungo Jerry album, "In the Summertime" Stanley Kubrick said in an interview that he considered the Prison Chaplain Godfrey Quigley to be the most sympathetic and morally admirable character in the film.
This comes from the term for clockwork bombs - "Paklena Masina" - "Machine from hell. Anthony Burgess felt that these translations were misleading as they suggested a hand grenade, whereas his title meant a natural creature transformed into a machine. The futuristic turntable that appeared in the movie is a Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference turntable. Stanley Kubrick found this turntable when visiting neighbouring Borehamwood company J. Michell Engineering, who made the spacecraft models for A Space Odyssey When shortly after Transcriptors moved to Ireland, J.
Michell Engineering continued the production of the Hydraulic Reference turntable, as well as other new models. In Michell Engineering launched the limited-edition 'Odyssey' turntable. When Malcolm McDowell recorded his voiceover material, it was on a simple Nagra tape recorder operated by Stanley Kubrick himself. Unusually, he did not have to dub a single one of his other lines in the film, owing to the director's use of then-advanced wireless microphones.
The opening shot was filmed on one of only three sets built for the film. The other two being part of the prison interior, and where Alex takes a bath. After Malcolm McDowell's cornea was scratched during the filming of the Ludovico treatment scene, he insisted to Stanley Kubrick that the extreme closeup of his eye in lid-locks be postponed until the last day of production.
Filming took place between September and April , making this the quickest film shoot in Stanley Kubrick's career. In the music shop scene there is a list of Top Ten music bands up on the wall. One of the bands listed is Heaven 17, which one of the girls mentions to Alex. This name was used by a real band in the s. Deltoid became good friends for the rest of Morris' life, and McDowell frequently advocated for Morris to be cast in his films whenever possible.
When Stanley Kubrick started receiving threats due to the gangs formed in the United States and the United Kingdom, he sought to stop the film's distribution in his home land of the UK.
Despite potential financial setbacks, Warner Bros. In his memoir "Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side," the director's longtime assistant Emilio D'Alessandro claims that Kubrick never did forgive himself for the controversy, and didn't like it whenever A Clockwork Orange was brought up in conversation. D'Alessandro also said he never saw the film while working for Kubrick because he didn't want to offend him.
Stanley Kubrick and the actors hewed so closely to the book that sometimes they wouldn't even use the formal screenplay on set. Instead, they simply carried the novel as a reference for dialogue in the scenes.
Not getting the chance to work with Stanley Kubrick was something Morricone regretted very much. Film Critic Gene Siskel interviewed Kubrick after Clockwork Orange came out and all the furor happened; the film was banned; Kubrick himself was threatened; and the film became one of the most controversial ever made. Gene Siskel asked if Alex Delarge was a villain: Kubrick said "it is inappropriate to talk about the characters in ''A Clockwork Orange'' as heroes and villains.
The film is satire," he said. Siskel went on to talk about Kubrick's world view; and the widespread belief because of movies like Clockwork Orange and The Shining that he hates people; that he's a dark, cynical misanthrope: "''You don't have to make Frank Capra movies to like people,'' Kubrick said. But I think you can still present a darker picture of life without disliking the human race.
And I think Frank Capra movies are wonderful. And I wish life were like most any one of them. And I wish everybody were like Jimmy Stewart. But they're not. Billy Russell was cast as the Librarian Crystallography expert , but became ill in January during production.
He died in December of the same year. This character was removed from the film, with some of his lines transferred to the Tramp Paul Farrell. Malcolm McDowell claimed that Stanley Kubrick conducted screen tests of actresses for the nude scenes by having them read Shakespeare during screen tests while the camera operator zoomed in for a closeup of their breasts. Kubrick then had prints made of the breast closeups so he could flip through them in his office.
However, McDowell claimed that the unintended consequence of this method was that Kubrick realized he could not identify the actresses he wanted. The tape that Alex removes from his stereo in order to play Ludwig van Beethoven bears the name of fictitious artist Goggly Gogol, mentioned later by one of the girls in the music store. Technically, to achieve and convey the dream-like quality of the story, filmed with extreme wide-angle lenses such as the Kinoptik Tegea 9.
Malcom McDowell came up with the name "DeLarge", although the book contains one part where Alex calls himself "Alex the Large", suggesting McDowell adapted and borrowed it from there. Alexander, Peter, and Dimitri which can be shortened to Dim were common names of Russian kings and princes of the Empire of the Tsars George Gyorgi in Russian was their patron saint. At the beginning of the rape scene at around 10 mins , Mrs.
Alexander is seated in the infamous Retreat Pod by Roger Dean, best known for his designs for the covers of Yes albums. Scenes filmed but not used include: The Droogs assaulting a man carrying library books a scene from the book , who meets Alex later. This was scrapped when the actor died; The Droogs bribing old ladies with drinks and snacks to give them an alibi; The Droogs actually stealing the Durango 95 that they are later seen riding in; The Droogs reflectively stargazing after their long night of mayhem; The Droogs riding the train home and vandalizing it; Alex using the milk dispenser at The Korova; Alex taking the girls from the record shop for a meal at Pasta Parlour; In the trailer, there is a scene of Alex's snake leaving his room; After Alex has sex with the two girls, his dad comes home and they try to sneak out, but are caught.
Wendy Carlos's synthesized score features the first ever use of a vocoder. The two pieces featuring Carlos's custom-built vocoder, "Timesteps" an original composition, heard during the Ludovico sequence and Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" from his Ninth Symphony heard in the record shop were recorded long before the film was made.
The vocoder, according to Carlos, was a development from an earlier, unsuccessful voice synthesis method she'd used on her album "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer", and she'd implored synthesizer inventor Robert Moog to come up with something better using standard Moog Synthesizer modules. This is actually not an uncommon recording technique.
The society depicted in the film was perceived by some as Communist as Michel Ciment pointed out in an interview with Stanley Kubrick due to its slight ties to Russian culture. The teenage slang has a heavily Russian influence, as in the novel; Anthony Burgess explains the slang as being, in part, intended to draw a reader into the world of the book's characters and to prevent the book from becoming outdated.
There is some evidence to suggest that the society is a socialist one, or perhaps a society evolving from a failed socialism into a fully fascist society. In the novel, streets have paintings of working men in the style of Russian socialist art, and in the film, there is a mural of socialist artwork with obscenities drawn on it. Later in the film, when the new right-wing government takes power, the atmosphere is certainly more authoritarian than the anarchist air of the beginning.
Kubrick's response to Ciment's question remained ambiguous as to exactly what kind of society it is. Kubrick asserted that the film held comparisons between both the left and right end of the political spectrum and that there is little difference between the two. The writer, Patrick Magee, is a lunatic of the Left They differ only in their dogma. Their means and ends are hardly distinguishable.
Fashion designer and publisher of fetish magazine AtomAge John Sutcliffe, with artist Allen Jones, designed some explicit waitresses' uniforms for the film which were ultimately unused. The sexualised Korova Milkbar sculptures were inspired - but not created - by Jones, who had been asked by Stanley Kubrick to contribute to the film.
Jones refused as there would only be a credit, not a fee, for this work. In an interview during the late 90s, Virginia Wetherell, the topless woman who makes the "reformed" Alex sick on stage, said she asked Stanky Kubrick what color and kind of panties she should wear for that scene. Kubrick asked her to model a few pairs, so she did while topless.
Then he had her go to the department store and pick up a few dozen more panties and she modeled all of them. Over and over. She had heard rumors he was a perfectionist, so she chalked it up to that, even though a friend told her later that Kubrick obviously just liked seeing her naked.
The flat used in the scene was the show home for the first block completed. Viewers will notice the area around the lake and beyond was under construction at the time and had two more years of building ahead. The scenes on Stage One are still present. Malcolm McDowell based aspects of his performance as Alex on the mannerisms and vocal tics of the British comedian Eric Morecambe, particularly during the dinner scene with Patrick Magee and David Prowse.
Much later, McDowell bumped into a Warner executive who said that the 2. Apparently Kubrick had kept the percentage for himself. Before he would famously go on to portray Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, David Prowse had his first "big break" by being cast in this film. Marty the brunette girl Alex picks up in the record shop was played by Australian actress Glenys O'Brien.
As Malcolm McDowell points out in his audio commentary, she became concerned her parents would see the film if they knew she was in it, and she was afraid of this because she appears fully nude in one scene. She initially asked to be credited under the pseudonym Barbara Scott, and this is how the actress has been identified in several places. Despite all this, her name was ultimately dropped entirely from the end credits of the film. The film took heavy inspiration from If After returning to London, his wife was assaulted by four American GIs during the blackout, inspiring this story.
Burgess claimed that "clockwork orange" was a Cockney phrase, but most philologists agree that he made it up. The Malay word for man is "orang," as in "orangutan" man of the jungle , and a clockwork orang would be a clockwork man. However, a UK slang expression for a gambling device is a "clockwork fruit" or "fruit machine," due to the depictions on its dials.
The anthropomorphic look of a "fruit machine" thus, its name "one-armed bandit" in the USA for its roughly man-sized shape and "arm" giving it a humanoid appearance may well have given rise to the term "clockwork orange" in Burgess' fertile mind, as Alex, through conditioning, is turned into a robotic clockwork man.
Gambling also is a game of chance, and Alex literally is gambling with his soul. Brodsky tells Alex to take his chance and be free in a fortnight, as long as a vacation in Blackpool, the most popular slot machine resort in Britain. The cassette player is a prop, and not related to any existing product. It is shown to use the Philips mini-cassette system.
The mini-cassette system was of low quality, intended for dictation only, and was never used for commercial music releases. Christiane, Stanley Kubrick's widow, revealed during an interview decades later how frantic and terrified she and her husband were during the frenzy of controversy over the film.
Not for one moment did I think, 'Oh my God, there will be trouble'. The film didn't show any true cruelty We had press in front of our house, we started receiving horrible letters, and then came the detailed death threats. The police said: 'I think you would be better off leaving the country. So Stanley phoned Warner Bros and begged to have the film withdrawn. He was right to do it. Anthony Burgess has expressed sorrow and bemusement at A Clockwork Orange being his most famous book.
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