I seriously doubt that Kubrick could have found a better actor for this particular role/script. Malcolm Mcdowell's onscreen performances and narration are nothing short of genius.
I find that since watching this film, I can't listen to Beethoven (something I do often) without thinking "a bit of the old Ludwig van". Note to self: don't become a Classic FM presenter.
I can only imagine the casting directors face when Malcolm McDowell walked out of the audition. Amazingly few actors can read words on a page and then turn that into a real person. Incredible stuff.
" Amazingly few actors can read words on a page and then turn that into a real person" That must be why he later got those amazing roles of... uhm... and why he won all of those awards.. no wait he only got one and to nominations. he didn't even win an award for Clockwork. Maybe stop pretending that everything Kubrick does is good "because it's Kubrick"?
@@vinny142 I never mentioned Stanley Kubrick. It's weird you'd straw man like that. Maybe go have that "poeple idolising Kubrick" argument you're clearly itching to have somewhere else, because it has no context based my original comment. I think we can all agree that film awards are a crock. They are just a way for people in one industry to pat each other on the back and aren't indicative of actual talent. Malcolm McDowell never never reaching the same level of performance he did in this film in the rest of his career doesn't take away from the fact that he knocked this performance out of the park. Be less angry. You might find you get into less unprovoked arguments with strangers on the internet
In the film he looks to be early 20 to mid 20's. But the book has him at 15 yrs old with the pyschology of a fully grown man and crimininal. This scene is supposed to show how through the traumatic events he's experienced he's mentally regressed to a 9 yr old. With one of the books main themes being a disappearance of the child in a distopian society.
For what it’s worth, he was 15 when he was arrested in the book and spends two years in prison before being experimented on and released, so he’s about 17 here. Not that he did - or could do - much growing and maturing in prison
@The House of Noise and Madness yes, which would make him be a teenager then, that rapes two pre adolescents. Where as in the film he looks early 20's bedding two 18+ girls.
to smash em and pick em all up and Throw ..OWWWWWW this had me laugh so hard, especially the oww at the end, this is a great movie and i thoroughly enjoyed watching it. many thanks for uploading this clip.
FYI - In the book, when he is rummaging through albums with the little girls (in the book they were 11 & 12, and he was 15), he introduces himself as "Alex the Large", referring, of course, to his penis; but in the movie, they named him "Alex DeLarge."
Entre todos os protagonistas dos anos 70 ninguem superava malc , lindo, gostoso , talentoso ele se entregava de corpo e alma a todos papeis que escolhia , podia interpretar o vilão mais nojento possivel , seu carisma e sua beleza imensa sempre seriam um brinde a seus fans!
He doesnt turn "good", he's bored of violence and decides to settle down with a wife and theorizes that his child will go the same way the grew up, violent and disturbed.
I kept thinking it sounded like the Joker's laugh in The Dark Knight, which makes sense seeing how Ledger took most of his inspiration for the character of the Joker from Alex DeLarge
Compared to ending in book, I like this ending. You think he is going to have to be good for rest of his life only for him to get reverted back to his old ways.
If anything Alex was turned into a beta male because his brain associated violence and sex with pain. Dude got the shit kicked out of him and all he could do was gag xD
A nice subtext is they're returning him to his evil ways because they want to make him one of them. They found this rehabilitation necessary to get him into politics. Make that what you will.
I don’t know if this is what Kubrick actually meant but I read somewhere that Alex was actually cured, what gives it away is that the girl who is in the final shot is happy, so it’s not someone who he’s raping, it’s someone who gave him consent. Therefore the audience is supposed to believe that Alex was cured but just moved on from his life of crime and settled. (I may be wrong, if I am someone please correct me)
@marius kristensen that makes sense, I suppose you wouldn’t want a crowd of people watching you in your time of intimacy lmao, it was definitely him mind, it’s hard to piece together these Kubrick films
@@MrUtah1 And to think I even gave you a chance to have a sense of humor of your own...No, I spelled "sensaumour" 100% correctly. It is precisely and perfectly what I wanted to type. When I want to use the phrase "sense of humor", I'll do so, and the last thing I'll need when I do it is your unsolicited oversight LOL.
O personagem é uma peste , mas o ator era uma coisa linda , sou fã de malcolm mcdowell desde que assisti time after time, em 1995 sempre fiquei admirada com o charme e a beleza natural dele ( os atores ingleses parecem desde sempre ter um quê , ter algo que os destaca dos demais)
@@patrick4662 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lcoV2ELR0Yw.html this is the full scene. guard calls her doctor. she is a psychiatrist to be exact.
@@CommentFrom you're a simp because you don't understand what the definition of a simp is. i said she is cute; if i was a simp, i wouldn't have said that, because that is considered, by simps, to be "objectifying women" which, to simps, is a no-no. i wanna grab her by her blue hair and make love to her face with my member. if you're gonna use newish slang, at least learn their true definitions first, ya jam-rag.
Love how the first time he ever been cured of the treatment is “cabbages, Knickers, uhh it’s not got a beak.” Shows how evil the treatment actually was that those were considered grounds for being sick.
@@BookwormCowboy The film makes stark the difference between intended and actual consequences. The treatment was intended to suppress violent thoughts, and instead suppressed cabbages knickers and the Ninth. The mind isn't as easily tweakable as we might hope.
A clockwork orange è un duplice capolavoro, sia per chi l'ha scritto, Anthony Burgess, ad inizio anni 60, che per chi né ha fatto una pellicola, a fine anni 60, il regista Stanley Kubrick, senza escludere la grande interpretazione dell'attore protagonista, Malcolm McDowell... Son qui da Valerio, ciao Gio', a presto......Max
This part of the movie in my opinion shows that Alex is back to his old self. Just judging by his reactions to the slides and especially how he swears.
McDowell was brilliant in this part, but i also liked him in another strange film, called Oh lucky man. where he was a rep or salesman. surreal sort of film similar to Clockwork orange.
Lui accetta, per non andare in galera, di essere, tramite un programma di cui adesso non ricordo il nome, di essere "riprogrammata".....ma senza, con questo sistema di comprendere, la differenza tra il bene ed il male e, di conseguenza, diventare un essere umano consapevole del proprio libero arbitrio
Kubrick was right. Burgess was right. The world has gone to shit and the women all have purple hair. Only took 50 years. Just makes the film more brilliant.
