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
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"??
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
***** 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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's very amusing i just stumbled across this video . this year for Halloween I went as Alex from A Clockwork Orange my costume was a big hit lol. Personally I loved this film
the paper back version is shorter,so is the film,the original hardback continues after his hospital visit at the end,a lot of people haven't read the full version,i read it when i was 15,in the local library,ended up stealing it
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!
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.
The character of the Joker predates the character of Alex DeLarge by about 22 years. Honestly, besides the fact they both like random violence the two characters are nothing alike. Neither are the two movies.
@@buckaroobanzai7063 Bob Kane's Joker, which is the one that predates A Clockwork Orange, has nothing to do with Frank Miller or Allan Moore's Joker, so the character that predates A Clockwork Orange has nothing to do with these versions of the Joker. Considering that both Phoenix and Ledger stated that they based their interpretations on Malcolm McDonald's performance, I say you don't know what you're talking about. Alex was also a deeply disturbed broken man, which is exactly what the Joker is. Both are highly intelligent, highly driven and they both see themselves as the inevitable consequence of society. Oh, and Frank Miller also stated that he took a lot from DeLarge for the Joker character. Don't get me wrong, I love the Joker and I love comic books and graphic novels. However, nobody makes films like Kubrick and in that media, his legacy is untouchable.
Rui Almeida what a beautiful and well researched defence of both the jokers legacy and Mr Kubrick’s. Well Done my friend. Defended my hero’s honour. Thank you
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.
