When I first went to Hollywood I was in a book store in Santa -Monica and a man came walking towards me dressed almost exactly like myself and as he made eye contact with me with a little grin as he clearly noticed it too and I realised it was Malcolm Mcdowell. as we got closer I said ''Hi, hi ,hi my droogy'' which made him laugh we had a great conversation about the film and his car collection. He was a really nice fellow.
Man, the way Michael Bates delivers the line "Are you now or have you ever been a homosexual?" Still makes me crack up after more than 30 years of watching Clockwork. Amazing character actor.
@ctdtfiveoupNup Absolutely, it's very subtle ("the love that dare not speak its name"). Then of course he goes on to look up Alex's kiester with that phallic flashlight in his mouth. ;)
Most of the world didn't watch the movie but most of those who read the book did and they understood because there's a glossary at the back of the book. The presence of the glossary clearly indicates that the words were meant to be understood. Also, due the publicity at the time of its release, many who went to see the movie also understood even if they hadn't read the book. So most of the original audience understood and those who didn't could quickly guess the meaning of the few words they didn't know.
Just love, love, love Tyler's videos. With the research Tyler does into a director's work and the film making process, I find it incredibly insightful and can't wait for the next video to drop. I'm also impressed by the way he edits his videos. Keep up the good work Tyler.
Funny how seriously Kubrick took the book when it was something Burgess pumped out high speed to pay the bills. Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything.
I believe Burgess was given a few months to live by some erroneous diagnostic which inspired him to write this. He wrote it under the pression of dying.
@Carlos Saraiva The first part was a very good point. The second wildly misinterpreted the OP's point - _"Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything._" That's certainly not justifying laziness, it's saying you might end up doing your best work when you're _not_ inspired and producing what you think to be your magnum opus - so don't wait for those perfect conditions and just write because you must. I'm confused by the complete inversion and all the upvotes!
I've been meaning to the book for a while now, both versions in fact. When you mentioned Kubrick's unique script I had to pause the video to go find it. I can't wait to experience the script as he wrote it. Cool video, man.
A few inaccuracies here and there (like McDowell coming up with Alex's last name when it's in fact inspired by a fantasy Alex has in the novel in which he compares himself to the Greek conqueror Alexander The Great, tweaking it to declare himself Alexander The Large, or the last chapter that doesn't actually show Alex's rehabilitation, but rather describes a mirror scene from the beginning of the novel with Alex, accompanied with new droogs, feeling bored and unsatisfied with this cycle of violence and meeting his old droog Pete who started a family, which inspires Alex to do the same) but overall, fantastic video. You've earned a sub.
I know Kubrick has caught a lot of grief from other authors whose books he helped adapt to the big screen, but work has always been incredible with an audience. Having read the book years after seeing the movie, I was very impressed how well it represented Burgess’s work. Though I did like the ending published in the European version, it’s absence was truly a better conclusion to the story. Being so dark, it really makes you feel like you have gone through the Ludivico treatment.
This remains one of my favorite books to go back and read every few years--difficult and challenging, yes, but every time I catch something new and hilarious. The screenplay (understandably) left out some of the best squirmy parts, but a brilliant adaptation overall.
@@awkwardoddysee4438 "I really watched this thing with great interest." That's how it's intended to be understood. If you read the novel, it won't take long to understand it another way.
Super late to comment on this. Great analysis btw. In this movie, the idea of a voice-over is Alecs voice is his subjective experience against what we see. In the entire move these correspond, but the ending quote "I was cured alright", we realized a lot. I would say this is one of cinemas greatest moment, and without the narrator voice this wouldn't have worked
Awesome content, Tyler! You should consider making a video on 'Fear and Desire'. It would be interesting to see an in depth analysis on Kubricks first film, the mindset he was in, the process, and how it connects to his later work. Again, great work as always!
I read somewhere that "Alex DeLarge", though an obvious joke, is partly inspired by a scene in the book where Alex, in prison, gives that as his name after being asked that. Because Alex has no surname in the book, the author used Alex's sarcasm to its fullest extant.
Ive been waiting for this, you are a hero Tyler! great work! Regarding the commetary on voice over at 03:22, its Robert Mckee who said it and its BULLSHIT! i mean Charlie Kaufman made fun of it in Adaptation, you use voice over depending of what you want to say and how your story is constructed.
I saw this movie when I was 12. I had never seen a film that challenged me before. I felt like, “This means something....what is this movie trying to say?” I caught it late at night, on HBO or Cinemax....well past my bedtime. P’s were asleep, and I just couldn’t look away. I immediately found when it would be on again, and set the old VHS to record. I was at the library for an acting class I was taking right around that time, and thought I’d look up the movie to see if there were any books about it. This was pre-internet, so libraries were required for answers. I was surprised to find a novel. One copy, worn out to shit......rebound with that thick plasticky contact tape that they put on the books that were falling apart. I checked it out, and devoured it in a couple of days. I decided to see if Burgess had other books, and he sure did. I read whatever I could get. I then thought, well if that author wrote other books, I wonder if that director has made other films. I then found Stanley Kubrick’s name, unaware that he did The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, which I’d already seen. Thats all it takes. One really good piece of art, something my parents would have likely preferred I not watch, to send a 12 year old on a scavenger hunt for books and movies. I remember begging my mom to drive me 35 minutes away to rent Barry Lyndon, as none of the local video stores had it. Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker, its not even close. He set a standard that a handful aspire to, but nobody has yet to achieve IMO. Burgess has MANY books, and if you like this one, while it is probably his best work, his others are worth reading also. Very edgy stuff, especially considering the time period.
3:02 reminds me of Orson Welles' response to the claim the narration in Ambersons was uncinematic: "I think words are very important in talking pictures."
Thanks for all your videos, they've opened my eyes to some wonderful details about these films. You say that 2001 was mostly non verbal whereas A Clockwork Orange is a story that depends on voiced thoughts by the main character. 2001 uses silence or minimal sound, until the most tense moment in the film. The most important lines in the film (or book) are by HAL when he tries to deter Dave from de-activating him. The conversation based on childhood experiences and feelings makes it all that more important. I suppose the take-away from this is that Kubrick knew exactly when to you speech and when not to. Could you ever do a video about Baz Lhurmann? I never hear people praise him, yet his use of close ups in Strictly Ballroom to make the viewer feel disgust with the characters and the use of modern imagery to make Romeo and Juliet accessible to a modern audience despite the Shakesperean script have always impressed me
Thought about the shining video and how the takes that were often used were a ton of takes in. The actors making more interesting choices. You really see that when the old man hears Alex singing.
I kind of was hooked on horror movie magazines back in the 70s. Interestingly the mags seemed to adopt A Clockwork Orange as a horror movie. Which I suppose, in a way, it is.
I have great respect for you and appreciate the insight you give me into some of my favorite films and filmmakers, but nothing is "more unique." Nothing can be more "one of a kind." Carry on.
When I heard that "the story of Clockword Orange could not have been told like 2001" (2:51) I had to imagine Alex and his gang on the moon in their usual attire beating up the monolith. The scene where Alex and his gang walk towards that old bum in the tunnel (5:19) actually reminds of the scene in 2001 on the moon when the astronauts walk down towards the monolith, lights and shadows, but no lens flares if I remember correctly. In any case, despite of all the violence in Clockwork Orange, 2001 feels more intense to me, and somehow magnetic, memorable in a way that I find myself projecting images and sounds of the movie into my usual everyday surroundings, like when my own breathing becomes one in my mind with the breathing of the astronauts on the Jupiter mission. Or when I see the monolith in a doorway in my apartment when it's dark. It's rather scary, but also inspiring.
Thanks...enjoyed the video! Could you possibly point to more info on Kubrick using computer word processing for this script...does not surprise me that he would be a very early adopter of cutting edge technology. Cheers!
Um, "eggy-weggs" was already in the book, several times. I'm certain of this because I just recently reread it. I would be curious what slang was, in fact, new in the film. I guess I will need to vid it again, heh. Thanks for all your work. :)
17:00 while the end to the film is "appropriate" (considering that it _is_ a hardcore satire), the British novel's end was in no way a "happy ending." In fact, I see it as Burgess giving Alex a typically cynical "70's ending", as he becomes one more cog in the wheel of society, as he outgrows and becomes bored with his anarchy (hence the "clockwork orange", ie a vending machine that consistently spits out fruit for consumption and disposal). Throughout the movie, all of the characters (including the police and politicians) are looking for meaning and purpose... while in the end, things ebb and flow but still remain the same - the police will always be the police (and abuse their power).. the politicians will always be politicians (and divert blame onto others and keep their power) and the disaffected youth will continue to waste their lives.
The novel itself was based on a controversy that occurred in Italy in the 60s with the US army during the cold war. Thomas Narut was the whistleblower, he was in the Navy I forgot, and the guy was like a high ranking officer lieutenant like an old man who's still in the military cause he's that high ranking. He came out with all this information about the United States actually trying to do what we see in Clockwork Orange's "re-education" scenes, on American soldiers, who were handpicked for their volatile and antisocial nature, to turn them into disposable assassins who could be "activated" remotely to kill people. It obviously didn't really work as they had hoped. It was during the heyday of all the psych work that Bernaise and Freud were injecting into all of American culture through the methods discussed in BBC's "A Century of the Self". You can read the newspaper clippings at the Internet Archive just google "Assassination Navy Archive" and look for the IA link
So as far as ACO goes, the book is very close to the movie. Barry Lindon I am not sure but would suspect the same. Kubrick said he is a horrible writer but a good rewriter. Makes sense he wrote ACO script.
you said american locations for other films, full metal jacket was all american actors but all of the film was done in uk the shining film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England
By the way, I've read recently "Traumnovelle" (in English "Rhapsody : a Dream Novel"), the litterary source for "Eyes Wide Shut". I strongly recommend it to Kubrick fans! Amazing how closely Kubrick sticked to the book, to the point that in some scenes I could almost feel the author's narration behind the non-verbal acting of the film's characters. And Ziegler's monologue around the pool table comes streight from the book, yet his character wasn't in the book, as well as the OD-ed model, created obviously to enforce Cruise's character's link with the girl. Amusing to see that in the beginning of the 20th Century Schnitzler described a very cosmopolite Vienna, very close to New York in "Eyes Wide Shut"... Although the foreign man at the bal in the beginning is described with a Polish accent and the owner of the costume rental an Austrian gentleman, Kubrick replaced them with a Hungarian and a Serbian, a tribute to the diversity of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" has launched a very strong chain reaction that contributed to change my life, I'm not even exagerating! After viddying the Kubrick's Sinny I've searched the old kneega in my mother Frantsoozsky yahzeek, a really horrorshow translation that made me want to read it the original Nadsat, then Burgess' invention helped me learning Russian, and - voilà ! I live for seven years in Moscow, happily married, with two Russian-French malchiks!
@Cinema Tyler 00:37 How do you think that compares with today when good filmmakers don't matter much anymore because studios have bypassed the need for reliance on artists and have combined sophisticated statistical analysis models with economic decisions (read Relativity Media and Netflix CEO's interviews on this subject) to make sure they don't lose money on films anymore. Marketing blitz, opening week blitz, social media, franchises and sequels. They've finally hit upon a perpetual money-making model. These have made sure that even if filmmakers and writers today want to have artistic freedom with a commercial angle, they seem to be either not happening or they're going under my radar. Some have said that the current economic situation is not allowing many young filmmakers to do this anymore, because studios are run by MBA executives and business analysis graduates. Whereas back until the 60s and 70s studios used to be headed by men like Robert 0'Brien(MGM) and Robert Evans who were more or less movie lovers themselves and allowed artists a good degree of freedom. What do you think is big picture?
A key difference between the novel and the film is the nature of Alex's conditioning. In the novel, he is conditioned to react against the image in his mind. Kubrick's film portrays Alex as affected only when he is involved in the action itself (as perpetrator or victim), so he can picture whatever he wants in his mind, as the final images attest.
Tyler, please slow down your delivery. There’s no small amount of irony here in your description of scripts that emphasise spoken words instead of visual images and how Kubrick flipped that. My brain prefers the visual images first, and the spoken words after that. Everyone’s brain does. I have made more than 100 documentaries for TV and go to a lot of trouble to give people watching some space to absorb everything they are seeing without having to battle (and ultimately miss hearing) words being spoken as a voiceover. If you really do want to have a VO that long, please work out the pacing. The result will be that your viewers will appreciate all the little pauses that let their brains catch up. As always, great work!
Am I the only one who remembers DeLarge being in the book? It says at 18:10 that Malcolm McDowell came up with it, but I feel like in the book when Alex is with the two young girls towards the beginning, he tells them why he’s called DeLarge. I haven’t read A Clockwork Orange in a really long time though so I could be wrong
Pretty much like the book if you ask me. Sidenote - me and a mate had a big fight alongside sone clockwork orange look-a-likes camping out in an English holiday town, they were a little intimidated. Ha!
I love your videos, great work! But I don't understand, you said that Kubrick made up the line of selling magazines in the cat lady scene on the spot, but if you read the script at 7.34 it's written there?
I don't understand how that's supposed to be conflicting. Kubrick invented the line as opposed to it being taken from the novel. The line is on the script, but not on the novel.
I've had a bad remembrance of this film, and I've avoided it ever since seeing it as a teen. I was a bit of a rebel myself, although not in a violent way, and several scenes disturbed me, though not from the victims point of view.. But Alex's. I didn't like the film at all, it filling me with a dread and remorse of the perpetrator. And watching this brought back feelings and remembrances I haven't felt in many years. But I do plan in seeing it again, although through the eyes of an adult, and obviously with an opposite vantage point. It'll be interesting if the film appeals to me in a different light.
I love your Kubrick videos ! Maybe you could do a video on "Eyes Wide Shut" or Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and "Psycho" ... In general I would love videos about Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, ...
So anyone who hasn't read the book should definitely read it along with the last (British ending) chapter. The last chapter is nothing like what is usually described. Perhaps it's because I watched the movie for the first time when I was around Alex's age at the beginning of the book, and read the book when I was at Alex's age at the end of the book, but I was profoundly affected by it. Even now in my 40s I would urge all teenagers and young adults to read it, the entire thing, because it communicates something most adults (especially parents) consistently try to say and usually end up failing.
Interesting. I thought Kubrick had always denied knowledge of the 'missing' chapter 21 from the UK publication of the novel. Yet, you suggest that Kubrick received a copy with the rejected screenplays.
When I first went to Hollywood I was in a book store in Santa -Monica and a man came walking towards me dressed almost exactly like myself and as he made eye contact with me with a little grin as he clearly noticed it too and I realised it was Malcolm Mcdowell. as we got closer I said ''Hi, hi ,hi my droogy'' which made him laugh we had a great conversation about the film and his car collection. He was a really nice fellow.
Clyde Kelvin and the Sinners. ...
This made my day. What a great run-in!
Gold
Must be nice to be able to collect cars.
Clyde, I ran into him several times, during my time in L.A., once when he was with DeVito. They were hilarious.
So fake, why would you make something like this up ?
I love this film’s tone. It’s dark and disturbing yet surreal and the beauty of the images makes us feel conflicted by what we see in the film
Man, the way Michael Bates delivers the line "Are you now or have you ever been a homosexual?" Still makes me crack up after more than 30 years of watching Clockwork. Amazing character actor.
"With these feet?"
Michael Bates: The consummated British bureaucrat/civil servant.
One of those small roles where the actor steals the scene every time. Played perfectly.
@@dentistguba ;-)
@ctdtfiveoupNup Absolutely, it's very subtle ("the love that dare not speak its name"). Then of course he goes on to look up Alex's kiester with that phallic flashlight in his mouth. ;)
Just finished watching A Clockwork Orange two minutes ago! Perfect timing! What a coincidence..
algorithms.....now watch "1984."
not a coincidence you’re being watched my friend
It was weird watching this movie knowing some russian. Understanding the words that quite obviously werent ment to be understood by most of the world.
Same, except I know Slovenian.
Horosho
I understood it and im from slovakia
Most of the world didn't watch the movie but most of those who read the book did and they understood because there's a glossary at the back of the book. The presence of the glossary clearly indicates that the words were meant to be understood. Also, due the publicity at the time of its release, many who went to see the movie also understood even if they hadn't read the book. So most of the original audience understood and those who didn't could quickly guess the meaning of the few words they didn't know.
Oh boy 18 minutes. Time to break out the popcorn
*lubrication
Have you by now finished the popcorn?
Love Clockwork Orange, but can't help getting into an existential crisis after watching it each time.
Bang on.
I can't not help but think you didn't mean the exact opposite...
Yep
@@hypnodelica grammatical correction made. Stanley would probably insist I read more, as does my Mother…
Just love, love, love Tyler's videos. With the research Tyler does into a director's work and the film making process, I find it incredibly insightful and can't wait for the next video to drop.
I'm also impressed by the way he edits his videos.
Keep up the good work Tyler.
The v/o was necessary, less to show us Alex's internal life, more to create and enhance audience identity with him.
Also Malcom mcdowell's voice.
Funny how seriously Kubrick took the book when it was something Burgess pumped out high speed to pay the bills. Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything.
I believe Burgess was given a few months to live by some erroneous diagnostic which inspired him to write this. He wrote it under the pression of dying.
You really don't know what the Ludovico technique is?
You got to remember also that juice can't really create on their own and need to take from others. And Stanley Kubrick was a jui
Inspiration and what bog sends
@Carlos Saraiva The first part was a very good point. The second wildly misinterpreted the OP's point - _"Testament to how “inspiration” and perfectionism aren’t everything._"
That's certainly not justifying laziness, it's saying you might end up doing your best work when you're _not_ inspired and producing what you think to be your magnum opus - so don't wait for those perfect conditions and just write because you must.
I'm confused by the complete inversion and all the upvotes!
I've been meaning to the book for a while now, both versions in fact. When you mentioned Kubrick's unique script I had to pause the video to go find it. I can't wait to experience the script as he wrote it. Cool video, man.
"I was cured, all right !"
Yours is without a competition the most rewarding channel on RUclips. I really enjoyed this. Great work Tyler!
I’ve been waiting for a video on this film.
What do you mean? There are videos on this film already. Do you mean by this particular RUclips channel?
Me? Oh, I've been waiting for a film on this video...
@@TheVefIt Not sure I understand exactly, but okay.
I been waiting for such a long time for this clip.
That makes more sense.
A few inaccuracies here and there (like McDowell coming up with Alex's last name when it's in fact inspired by a fantasy Alex has in the novel in which he compares himself to the Greek conqueror Alexander The Great, tweaking it to declare himself Alexander The Large, or the last chapter that doesn't actually show Alex's rehabilitation, but rather describes a mirror scene from the beginning of the novel with Alex, accompanied with new droogs, feeling bored and unsatisfied with this cycle of violence and meeting his old droog Pete who started a family, which inspires Alex to do the same) but overall, fantastic video. You've earned a sub.
I wasn’t 100% sure if I was hallucinating DeLarge being in the book. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the book, so thank you!
Nice to know others love Kubrick as much as I do
Your Kubrick videos are brilliant
I know Kubrick has caught a lot of grief from other authors whose books he helped adapt to the big screen, but work has always been incredible with an audience. Having read the book years after seeing the movie, I was very impressed how well it represented Burgess’s work. Though I did like the ending published in the European version, it’s absence was truly a better conclusion to the story. Being so dark, it really makes you feel like you have gone through the Ludivico treatment.
This remains one of my favorite books to go back and read every few years--difficult and challenging, yes, but every time I catch something new and hilarious. The screenplay (understandably) left out some of the best squirmy parts, but a brilliant adaptation overall.
D4md Cykey never had a chance to read the book, I would like to, is it still in print!
I actually think A Clockwork Orange is his best film. Thanks for the video.
Viddied this vesch, like, real horrorshow.
Gregory Jewell honestly tho
Translate please.
@@awkwardoddysee4438 "I really watched this thing with great interest." That's how it's intended to be understood. If you read the novel, it won't take long to understand it another way.
@@gj8683 honestly I tried reading the novel and just couldn't 😔
It's back in my local cinema in two weeks!
Super late to comment on this. Great analysis btw.
In this movie, the idea of a voice-over is Alecs voice is his subjective experience against what we see. In the entire move these correspond, but the ending quote "I was cured alright", we realized a lot. I would say this is one of cinemas greatest moment, and without the narrator voice this wouldn't have worked
6:39 Eggiweggs appears in the novella.
Awesome content, Tyler! You should consider making a video on 'Fear and Desire'. It would be interesting to see an in depth analysis on Kubricks first film, the mindset he was in, the process, and how it connects to his later work. Again, great work as always!
Thanks for the suggestion! That's a cool idea! I'll look into it.
Nice to see Delbert Grady before he took up his post at the Overlook.
Love your Kubrick videos!
“Eggiweggs” was used in the book too, it was Burgess’ word
lizzie nocera yes! And McDowell didn’t come up with the last name DeLarge I think. I remember it being mentioned in the book
simply the best director of the 20th century.
Have you seen "if...."? Malcolm MacDowell's performance is impressive as well
Kubrick left out the last chapter where Alex ages out of the violence. This makes for a totaly different story
All of the people who didn’t bother to watch the video thank you.
Great stuff Tyler, wow. I have loved this film for 20 years and this is really cool insight
I read somewhere that "Alex DeLarge", though an obvious joke, is partly inspired by a scene in the book where Alex, in prison, gives that as his name after being asked that. Because Alex has no surname in the book, the author used Alex's sarcasm to its fullest extant.
One Of my favorite movies covered by one of my favorite channels 😄
The matching coats on Kubrick and McDowell at 14:05 cracks me up for some reason
Fish fingers done, cuppa tea ready...i`m goin in.
it's got a beak! HEE HEE HEE
Now, enter Beethoven
lol I just literally watched this eating a fish finger sandwich :D
Can't wait for part part 3, keep up the good work
I love these videos, and they always have such tremendous quality. Thank you for uploading.
I love the cheery music in back of the scenes from this film haha.
Love this movie. Great video!
Ive been waiting for this, you are a hero Tyler! great work! Regarding the commetary on voice over at 03:22, its Robert Mckee who said it and its BULLSHIT! i mean Charlie Kaufman made fun of it in Adaptation, you use voice over depending of what you want to say and how your story is constructed.
1 year I waited to watch this due to me not having a google account and oh it was worth every second
-Bravo
I saw this movie when I was 12. I had never seen a film that challenged me before. I felt like, “This means something....what is this movie trying to say?” I caught it late at night, on HBO or Cinemax....well past my bedtime. P’s were asleep, and I just couldn’t look away. I immediately found when it would be on again, and set the old VHS to record.
I was at the library for an acting class I was taking right around that time, and thought I’d look up the movie to see if there were any books about it. This was pre-internet, so libraries were required for answers. I was surprised to find a novel. One copy, worn out to shit......rebound with that thick plasticky contact tape that they put on the books that were falling apart. I checked it out, and devoured it in a couple of days.
I decided to see if Burgess had other books, and he sure did. I read whatever I could get. I then thought, well if that author wrote other books, I wonder if that director has made other films. I then found Stanley Kubrick’s name, unaware that he did The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, which I’d already seen.
Thats all it takes. One really good piece of art, something my parents would have likely preferred I not watch, to send a 12 year old on a scavenger hunt for books and movies. I remember begging my mom to drive me 35 minutes away to rent Barry Lyndon, as none of the local video stores had it.
Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker, its not even close. He set a standard that a handful aspire to, but nobody has yet to achieve IMO. Burgess has MANY books, and if you like this one, while it is probably his best work, his others are worth reading also. Very edgy stuff, especially considering the time period.
I love your analyses, Tyler! Thanks for putting in the time.
3:02 reminds me of Orson Welles' response to the claim the narration in Ambersons was uncinematic: "I think words are very important in talking pictures."
really cool to hear what he himself had to say about first person narration
This was great! Do more Kubrick
Thanks for all your videos, they've opened my eyes to some wonderful details about these films. You say that 2001 was mostly non verbal whereas A Clockwork Orange is a story that depends on voiced thoughts by the main character.
2001 uses silence or minimal sound, until the most tense moment in the film. The most important lines in the film (or book) are by HAL when he tries to deter Dave from de-activating him. The conversation based on childhood experiences and feelings makes it all that more important.
I suppose the take-away from this is that Kubrick knew exactly when to you speech and when not to.
Could you ever do a video about Baz Lhurmann? I never hear people praise him, yet his use of close ups in Strictly Ballroom to make the viewer feel disgust with the characters and the use of modern imagery to make Romeo and Juliet accessible to a modern audience despite the Shakesperean script have always impressed me
Suggest watching "Clockwork Yellow" a Simpsons parody of this movie and Kubrick in general.
Another fantastic video! Keep up the good work! I always wanted to know...What do you think about Sergio Leone?
Kubrick’s best work was A Clockwork Orange. It remains my favorite movie of all time.
Honestly. Have you any intelligence at all? This is garbage.
Not his best. I could take my Daughter to 2001. Not this.
@@RadioUgly so that's what decides a film's quality?
@@nahimgood8891 Yes and the Barney movies are the all time best in the history of film.
@@bigcrackrock! where have you been uncle crack? You always seem to disappear when you get the primo stuff!
I have to immediately watch this
Thought about the shining video and how the takes that were often used were a ton of takes in. The actors making more interesting choices. You really see that when the old man hears Alex singing.
I kind of was hooked on horror movie magazines back in the 70s.
Interestingly the mags seemed to adopt A Clockwork Orange as a horror movie. Which I suppose, in a way, it is.
I have great respect for you and appreciate the insight you give me into some of my favorite films and filmmakers, but nothing is "more unique." Nothing can be more "one of a kind." Carry on.
When I heard that "the story of Clockword Orange could not have been told like 2001" (2:51) I had to imagine Alex and his gang on the moon in their usual attire beating up the monolith. The scene where Alex and his gang walk towards that old bum in the tunnel (5:19) actually reminds of the scene in 2001 on the moon when the astronauts walk down towards the monolith, lights and shadows, but no lens flares if I remember correctly. In any case, despite of all the violence in Clockwork Orange, 2001 feels more intense to me, and somehow magnetic, memorable in a way that I find myself projecting images and sounds of the movie into my usual everyday surroundings, like when my own breathing becomes one in my mind with the breathing of the astronauts on the Jupiter mission. Or when I see the monolith in a doorway in my apartment when it's dark. It's rather scary, but also inspiring.
Correction. You said the film Kubrick first used 1st person narration in was "Lolita," but it was actually "The Killing" in 1956.
I recommend Making yourself lomticks of toast and a couple of eggyweggs with a moloko plus on the side before watching this. 👍
Great video again, sir! Can’t wait for more!
A very good horror show my good droog
A very good good?
Yeah it's typo
*Translation*
A very good good my good buddy
Another great one! Thanks!
Beautifully disturbing! A masterpiece! Would love to read this he book, the full 21 chapters!!
maybe a musical reboot??with james corden
Had trouble making it through the movie, although well made, it’s disturbing subject matter and avant-garde style makes some parts tough to watch !
Excellent movie, glorious soundtrack to boot!
Thank you Sir
I love Clock Work Orange, the books great too!
Finally I get to viddy CinemaTyler make a video on this film
Thanks...enjoyed the video! Could you possibly point to more info on Kubrick using computer word processing for this script...does not surprise me that he would be a very early adopter of cutting edge technology. Cheers!
thanks for your videos tyler!
Brilliant
Um, "eggy-weggs" was already in the book, several times. I'm certain of this because I just recently reread it. I would be curious what slang was, in fact, new in the film. I guess I will need to vid it again, heh. Thanks for all your work. :)
17:00 while the end to the film is "appropriate" (considering that it _is_ a hardcore satire), the British novel's end was in no way a "happy ending."
In fact, I see it as Burgess giving Alex a typically cynical "70's ending", as he becomes one more cog in the wheel of society, as he outgrows and becomes bored with his anarchy (hence the "clockwork orange", ie a vending machine that consistently spits out fruit for consumption and disposal). Throughout the movie, all of the characters (including the police and politicians) are looking for meaning and purpose... while in the end, things ebb and flow but still remain the same - the police will always be the police (and abuse their power).. the politicians will always be politicians (and divert blame onto others and keep their power) and the disaffected youth will continue to waste their lives.
Finally!
I like to vidy the ole Cinema Tyler now and again.
The novel itself was based on a controversy that occurred in Italy in the 60s with the US army during the cold war. Thomas Narut was the whistleblower, he was in the Navy I forgot, and the guy was like a high ranking officer lieutenant like an old man who's still in the military cause he's that high ranking. He came out with all this information about the United States actually trying to do what we see in Clockwork Orange's "re-education" scenes, on American soldiers, who were handpicked for their volatile and antisocial nature, to turn them into disposable assassins who could be "activated" remotely to kill people. It obviously didn't really work as they had hoped. It was during the heyday of all the psych work that Bernaise and Freud were injecting into all of American culture through the methods discussed in BBC's "A Century of the Self".
You can read the newspaper clippings at the Internet Archive just google "Assassination Navy Archive" and look for the IA link
So as far as ACO goes, the book is very close to the movie. Barry Lindon I am not sure but would suspect the same. Kubrick said he is a horrible writer but a good rewriter. Makes sense he wrote ACO script.
Makes sense. He did write Eyes Wide Shut, so he was right about that one
you said american locations for other films, full metal jacket was all american actors but all of the film was done in uk the shining film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England
By the way, I've read recently "Traumnovelle" (in English "Rhapsody : a Dream Novel"), the litterary source for "Eyes Wide Shut". I strongly recommend it to Kubrick fans!
Amazing how closely Kubrick sticked to the book, to the point that in some scenes I could almost feel the author's narration behind the non-verbal acting of the film's characters. And Ziegler's monologue around the pool table comes streight from the book, yet his character wasn't in the book, as well as the OD-ed model, created obviously to enforce Cruise's character's link with the girl.
Amusing to see that in the beginning of the 20th Century Schnitzler described a very cosmopolite Vienna, very close to New York in "Eyes Wide Shut"... Although the foreign man at the bal in the beginning is described with a Polish accent and the owner of the costume rental an Austrian gentleman, Kubrick replaced them with a Hungarian and a Serbian, a tribute to the diversity of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Great as always!
Hello. Is this Tyler-Guy a filmstudent, or what? Anyway: This chanal has excellent content, keep it up, Tyler-Guy!
Thanks! I'm a former film student, but I've been researching movies for as long as I can remember.
Love this channel !
Nicely done!
Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" has launched a very strong chain reaction that contributed to change my life, I'm not even exagerating!
After viddying the Kubrick's Sinny I've searched the old kneega in my mother Frantsoozsky yahzeek, a really horrorshow translation that made me want to read it the original Nadsat, then Burgess' invention helped me learning Russian, and - voilà ! I live for seven years in Moscow, happily married, with two Russian-French malchiks!
@Cinema Tyler 00:37 How do you think that compares with today when good filmmakers don't matter much anymore because studios have bypassed the need for reliance on artists and have combined sophisticated statistical analysis models with economic decisions (read Relativity Media and Netflix CEO's interviews on this subject) to make sure they don't lose money on films anymore. Marketing blitz, opening week blitz, social media, franchises and sequels. They've finally hit upon a perpetual money-making model. These have made sure that even if filmmakers and writers today want to have artistic freedom with a commercial angle, they seem to be either not happening or they're going under my radar. Some have said that the current economic situation is not allowing many young filmmakers to do this anymore, because studios are run by MBA executives and business analysis graduates. Whereas back until the 60s and 70s studios used to be headed by men like Robert 0'Brien(MGM) and Robert Evans who were more or less movie lovers themselves and allowed artists a good degree of freedom. What do you think is big picture?
A key difference between the novel and the film is the nature of Alex's conditioning. In the novel, he is conditioned to react against the image in his mind. Kubrick's film portrays Alex as affected only when he is involved in the action itself (as perpetrator or victim), so he can picture whatever he wants in his mind, as the final images attest.
Tyler, please slow down your delivery. There’s no small amount of irony here in your description of scripts that emphasise spoken words instead of visual images and how Kubrick flipped that. My brain prefers the visual images first, and the spoken words after that. Everyone’s brain does. I have made more than 100 documentaries for TV and go to a lot of trouble to give people watching some space to absorb everything they are seeing without having to battle (and ultimately miss hearing) words being spoken as a voiceover. If you really do want to have a VO that long, please work out the pacing. The result will be that your viewers will appreciate all the little pauses that let their brains catch up. As always, great work!
Am I the only one who remembers DeLarge being in the book? It says at 18:10 that Malcolm McDowell came up with it, but I feel like in the book when Alex is with the two young girls towards the beginning, he tells them why he’s called DeLarge. I haven’t read A Clockwork Orange in a really long time though so I could be wrong
This is one of those movies I can watch only once
This is my second favorite movie of all time.
First?
Pretty much like the book if you ask me. Sidenote - me and a mate had a big fight alongside sone clockwork orange look-a-likes camping out in an English holiday town, they were a little intimidated. Ha!
Awesome!!!! X
I love your videos, great work! But I don't understand, you said that Kubrick made up the line of selling magazines in the cat lady scene on the spot, but if you read the script at 7.34 it's written there?
I don't understand how that's supposed to be conflicting. Kubrick invented the line as opposed to it being taken from the novel. The line is on the script, but not on the novel.
Wasn’t Alex 15 in the book? He just said he’s 14 on that last clip...?
Wonderful analysis but please turn down your background music.
Thanks for your work.
Your music choice is a bit distracting and is competing with your VO
Always great.
I've had a bad remembrance of this film, and I've avoided it ever since seeing it as a teen.
I was a bit of a rebel myself, although not in a violent way, and several scenes disturbed me, though not from the victims point of view.. But Alex's.
I didn't like the film at all, it filling me with a dread and remorse of the perpetrator.
And watching this brought back feelings and remembrances I haven't felt in many years.
But I do plan in seeing it again, although through the eyes of an adult, and obviously with an opposite vantage point.
It'll be interesting if the film appeals to me in a different light.
slovo = word and droog = friend in Russian. Interesting...
upd: me at the 4th minute: "Oh... okay"
Eugene Lychany hehe друг
andy partridge of xtc did an album named fuzzy warbles
Was also about to write that before watching the translations at 4th minute.
I love your Kubrick videos ! Maybe you could do a video on "Eyes Wide Shut" or Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and "Psycho" ...
In general I would love videos about Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, ...
So anyone who hasn't read the book should definitely read it along with the last (British ending) chapter. The last chapter is nothing like what is usually described. Perhaps it's because I watched the movie for the first time when I was around Alex's age at the beginning of the book, and read the book when I was at Alex's age at the end of the book, but I was profoundly affected by it. Even now in my 40s I would urge all teenagers and young adults to read it, the entire thing, because it communicates something most adults (especially parents) consistently try to say and usually end up failing.
Interesting. I thought Kubrick had always denied knowledge of the 'missing' chapter 21 from the UK publication of the novel. Yet, you suggest that Kubrick received a copy with the rejected screenplays.
Sad the movie didn't have the last chapter...I've always felt the true ending makes it more true to life
the narrative drove it