Malcolm McDowell looks back on A Clockwork Orange for its 50th Anniversary & 4K UHD release
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2021
- Malcolm McDowell is interviewed by Greg Wetherall for the 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
Directed, written and produced by Kubrick, the film stars Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge, Warren Clarke, James Marcus and Michael Tarn as his droogs, Patrick Magee and Michael Bates. The film is out on 4K Ultra HD and Digital release on the 4th of October, 2021.
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What lasts 50 years? Beatles albums, Kubrick masterworks.
I'm 51 so me.
Just bought the new edition looking forward to watching it again
@@bonnie3447 We’re glad we still have you :)
Clockwork Revolver. :0)
The Stones!
What a lovely man, he is the complete opposite of his character, it is good that he can still remember the film even with how stressful it must have been filming it, because who better to talk about it than the protagonist himself.
Kubrick would not pick anyone. He did like actors who werent pussies, or just menacing. he saw what you see, and more
He is as sharp as a tack. Hasn't lost anything off of his fast ball mentally.
Stressful🙄
How stressful the filming was is WHY he still remembers it!
You are a liar and a con artist!
I appreciate the interviewer letting Mr. McDowell talk. He'd ask a good question and then let him answer without interrupting. That's a skill.
What a truly lovely man. He actually blushed at the end.
But the chills I got when he said, "I was cured, all right."
My favourite actor of all times! So underrated!
Malcolm Is Mcdowell is a Legend 👏🏼
One of our greatest actors ever, the closest to Malcolm now being Gary Oldman 👍🏻
My copy of clockwork orange was beautiful. It was a paper back, I carried it back and forth from the school bus. It got wet from the rain, coffee poured on it, pages warped and bent. I wish I still had it, got lost throughout all my moves. The story is still so inspiring even after my teenage angst. Screenwriting / directing at its best.
I love how the physical book can tell a story too with coffee spot, sneeze remain, maybe a blood spot, scribbled note or emphatic underline. Nice to think someone might have your copy stashed for the next person to read, warped pages and all.
You, sir, are sitting and talking to a LEGEND.
Brilliant actor, so influential, started a fashion here in Melbourne Australia sharpies and skinheads
I remember watching this as a young teen and thinking McDowell did a beyond impressive job as Alex, and then when I checked out the rest of his filmography, I was like “how is this guy in so much schlock stuff? How is he not in Oscar worthy stuff all the time?”
Actors act. Take a look at Michael Caine's filmography. Take the money.
THere's an interview with a guy who directed one of those schlock movies for, shit, whats his name, that american guy that literally INVENTED schlock. Roger Corman thats it. Anyway, the filming was done in Chile because they got a tax break or something and it turned out Malcolm always wanted to visit Chile. So he basically showed and because he worked with Kubrick and essentially knew what he was capable of, he said evertying else was gravy. He basically showed up and the guy showed him the script and he said "for that price you get me, you don't get me memorizing lines", and he just made shit up.
So he literally made a pile of cash for a free trip to Chile, partied with the crew, showed up for one day of work and ranted away, end of vacation.
In other words like a lot of brits who do theatre, he had a good 'appreciation' of what 'movie' acting consisted of. The other day I watched an interview with the guy who played Al Bundy. Right after Married with Children he did a show called Green Apple that got huge critical praise and his point was that he always knew he could act, but it always comes down to the writing. And movies you don't get that often, so Malcolm view of taking the money and run seems like a pretty sensible one. I saw an american writer producer talk about how in the seventies and eighties british theatre stars came to america 'to get their sitcom money'. They got ten times the money for one TV show than a year in the british theatre, at the same time its not like they had huge respect for it.
@@mickeymccoy9085 I seem to vaguely recall some line from him, talking about how Jaws: The Revenge bought him a house.
It’s called making a living, nobody says that when a guy gets a job, that might be below him.. very few actors are a listers, when you are no longer the hit thing…you gotta pay the rent/ mortgage….
Absolutely. He was in a few decent movies besides Clockwork but they were few and far between. He was great in his very small role in "Book of Eli", a movie I really like. But I remember going to the theater with some friends years ago and insisted on seeing "Tank Girl" because he was in it. What a stinker! Felt kinda bad for making them sit through it. They had wanted to see Delores Claiborne instead, which I saw later and is a really good film...which made me feel even worse. ☹🤣
Malcolm McDowell and his look with his eyelashes, imbedded in my mind…it has lasted a lifetime. Amazing actor!
The eyelashes are what caught my eye! I was on HBO looking for a film and I saw Alex wearing his famous eyelashes paired with the strange title of A Clockwork Orange and I immediately had to watch!
Spring 1974, CU in Boulder Colo., we were quite a group of creative lunatics in our part of the dorm; we initiated a "Fellini Party", really a March/April costumery which went over rather well. As usual, I merely searched through what I could "throw together" out of my closet - I actually did have a sword cane with a gold knob - and came up with: long underwear, top/bottom (sans suspenders), a cheap too-small bowler which passed, kajel-eyeliner for that one eye, my hair was already just right, and borrowing the otorycle boots of a buddy, I turned myself into the absolute opposite of how everyone ever regarded me, a perfect optic (with my acting skills + accent) for evening's candidate as: ALEX from Clockwork O. A girl school chum who was to drop by my room to pick me up took one look at me - having known me well for some 7 yrs., and who loved film - as she knocked and walked in, lost all composure in horror (in SPITE of herself, knowing it was "just me") and in chills at the transformation as I leaned against the window sill, slipping the sword in and out of my cane behind my back, leering with my "Alex" face, and greeting her with my "light cockney": 'Ello 'ello 'ello, my lovely, what about us going in for some ultra-sex, ultra- violence...eh?
It was a hit, and we all had a grand - and innocently mischievous - time. (I did have to give up my cane at the end of the evening to the dorm authorities, without incident.)
Ah, youth.
Unforgetable caracter. Great movie. Classic of classics. 👏👏👏👏👏
And now it's 51 years for the legends of the film!!!!!!!💖
This film is still a masterpiece
Iconic
Beautiful Striking Imagery
And Brilliant Bold Choice of making you the viewer actually sympathize for a monstrous loathsome character
Unmistakably, the most influential film, of
modern times !
In what sense? I wouldn't have thought so, even remotely.
@@jimnewcombe7584 i agree in a way; it's too peculiar to be something that can be emulated
What a film, what an actor, what a book, what a director, what iconography, what music, what a soundtrack! Everything about this turned out to be a project for the ages. I can still listen to W. Carlos' profound Beethoven adaptations on the Moog, and they sound as fresh and urgent today as they did back then. A Clockwork Orange had its effect on the 70s in style, music, film, TV, and everything else. It's hard to even imagine the era without that film...
A remarkable movie, Malcolm McDowell was brilliant and Kubrick a true genius. Amongst my top 5 all time movies
You missed Burgess - the absolute originator - the vision was his, the moral implications were his - and a very erudite and prolific writer.
I love this movie so much,Kubrick and McDowell made the perfect movie!
Such an impressive man and movie, it will live for ever in my memory, incredible. Kubrick was a genius.
Malcom is always interesting. I would love to hear him discuss the film O Lucky Man for ten minutes. Not as well known as A Clockwork Orange but in many ways, just as good and far more rewatchable.
Love Malcolm as an actor. A Clockwork Orange, you can freeze frame it at any point and it could be framed and put on the wall.. The film is just outstanding. Shame it took me until I was 29 when I could see it. (Banned in UK for many years)
Malcolm, as Alex, staring down the camera with that baleful murder glare looks so much like his idol James Cagney. Kubrick was enamored with that mercurial little dynamo also...
Still sounds like he did back then. Amazing movie and amazing actor 👏
2:22 The fact that Malcolm knows A Clockwork Orange was parodied on South Park & The Simpsons it's just icing on the cake with how fuckin' cool Malcolm McDowell is. I remember watching him in Star Trek Generations, and wishing he would've been Captain Pickard instead of Patrick Stewart. Now that would've been fascinating to see him as a morally grey Starfleet captain.
Don't forget he played Loomis in the Rob Zombie version of Halloween.
he starred in the south park episode pip (season 2 i think) as "a british person," a non-animated character who narrates parts of the story
Also parodied on an episode the BBC series The Goodies.
One of the best movies I've ever watched.
Most under rated British actor ever IMO
Not forgetting the amazing film that is ‘Barry Lyndon’.
I loved Oh Lucky Man. Saw it at least three times when it came out.
A Clockwork Orange got me hooked onto Beethovens’ Ninth Symphony. The music was phenomenal and I had a massive crush on McDowell and of course Stanley Kubrick was a brilliant director. I also admire Malcolm McDowell for all he went through in the making of this iconic movie.
My All Time Favorite Movie 🍊
⚙️🍊
Mine 2!
Malcom McDowell made such an amazing performance in the movie that I didn't realize it was him until recently. The movie was a masterpiece and Malcom's performance was a big part of that. I love that he was impressed that South Park and Simpsons copied it. Loved the story about the eye as well.
Wow it's 50 years old. Insane.
You know that a movie is memorable when Bart dresses up for Halloween as Alex and scares the crap of everyone!
He was awesome in Blue Thunder, btw. But yeah, A C O was an icon that will live forever.
This guy is absolutely great, besides being a legend. he really is
Malcolm also was brilliant in two Lindsay Anderson films..."IF" & "O Lucky Man,"
First saw this movie when I was fifteen years of age. ( snuck in to the theatre because it was rated R. ) still remember every part of the movie. An absolute classic!
It's horrible. Gave me permanent trauma. Only other film that scarred me for life was Another Brick In The Wall.
Great men make history, plain and simple. 😎
sorry love . no time for the ol in out in out !i was just about 18 when i first saw this movie and it was true love . i had two passes for this movie house and they were going to expire so a got hold of a pal and we went a loved it so much i stayed and watched it again [my sister tried to tell me before going . you won't like ! ya right !] when they were beating up the bum under the beige oh my i lost it it was better then blazing saddles ! it was old age having a go at youth . ya Malcolm you were a lucky man !
Malcolm McDowell was totally genius in that film...bad boy and you couldn't take your eyes off his character
Just got the 4k blu ray.
Just a unbelivable style of film Stanley was just so foward thinking .
For example the scene where the police Ex gang members are still gang members and beat Alex rings so true right now ..
He always gives such a good interviews.
Malcom has the most menacing stage presence I've ever seen.
Personally speaking, I've always loved Malcolm for his splendid performances, just as I have admired Mr. Kubrick for his works. Although the imagery of 'Orange' was horrific, that cannot be singularly attributed to either (nor to any other) party; the Western world has now had decades in which to deal with the matter, but it has largely chosen to simply close its collective eyes. So be it...that said, I was really taken with his performance in 'Gangster #1'; that was a pivotal moment in cinematic history, whether or not it's ever acknowledged.
Malcolm: "if it wasn't for Kubrick..." So right.
Love Malcolm McDowell! ❤️
According to Anthony Burgess: "technically brilliant, thoughtful, relevant, poetic, mind-opening. It was possible for me to see the work as a radical remaking of my own novel, not as a mere interpretation, and this - the feeling that it was no impertinence to blazon it as Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange - is the best tribute I can pay to the Kubrickian mastery."
He neglected to mention he was also at a screening of a clockwork orange at the Egyptian theater in Hollywood around 2000 give or take. He spoke about it before the movie was screened. Good fun hearing him say that at first he didn’t like the language in the movie either…
He also recorded a commentary track for the Blu ray in 2006/07
There's not a lot that's timeless but Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's masterpiece IMHO. I can't imagine anyone else playing Alex.
malcom McDowell is bigger than the Beatles! Brazil loves him! he's a class act! even Roger taylor from queen is a fan of workclock orange
I was only 17 and managed to get to see this film n it had stayed with me since then as one of my favourite films. of all time!!!!!!!!!! Mal is a lovely man n a gifted actor.
What do you like about that film? It's disgusting.
@@chickenlover657 Sois eating the dead flesh of an animal !!!!!
@@amandabarrymore778 What are you on about?
you judge me ill judge you
@@amandabarrymore778 Wtf are you on about?
Great interview… I’ve got a tattoo of Alex on my arm.. my fave movie for sure! :D
I saw it in 1971, Kubrick was a genius, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove..... Todays films cannot touch what was coming out in the 60’s and 70’s.
Great actor
Fabulous movie…have seen it plenty of times.
Great music too.
I also loved his Caligula..
Man, you gotta know that the shit you went through meant something. It was a pure moment in movie history! Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
Definitely my favourite Kubrick movie. I was late to the party with The Shining. Didn't see it until my 20's, and didn't think it lived up to the cult following it has. Thought it was pretty boring originally, but appreciated it more as I got older. Still, nothing tops A Clockwork Orange. It's one of those timeless movies that never comes across as dated at all.
You think it's better than Barry Lyndon and Paths of Glory or Lolita? I really like A Clockwork Orange, although the film misses the point of the book slightly. I'm not sure McDowell is quite correct in his anecdote about the final chapter...but I shouldn't dispute it if Malc is suggesting Burgess said this himself!
Best Kubrick films are 2001 and Barry Lyndon.
Hi, hi, hi there!
The best actor ever!!! Love this man!!!
Seen him in lots of movies. Has a real presence. Always interesting to listen to.
It is my number one film of all time. I just can't imagine how it was perceived in the theaters in 71 when it was X rated. I didn't see it for the first time till the mid-80s, and even 15 years later it just blew my mind. The photography, writing, the scenery, the clothes, music, and the subject matter.. A very cool band Heaven 17 took their name from it, and Andy Partridge of XTC named his album Fuzzy Warbles
Where did you see it in the mid 80s?
@SpookyBaba Good old VHS I believe. Blockbuster? Or maybe HBO?
Hi Malcolm - great vid - hope you're well just talking about you to Pat L on the phone!!! Much love as aye! Shanklin and Torquay - happy days!!! yours as always Neil!!!
It's in my top 10! A masterpiece based on a brilliant book.
I saw this first run in a beautiful Balaban and Katz movie theater in downtown Louisville. I believe I saw it with some buddies and we all agreed it was something very special. For being a lovely man Malcolm played some very sketchy characters, such as a prototypical mass shooter in "If" and of course, "Caligula".
I'm mexican. When I was about 8 years old, I saw in the newspaper, in black and white, the ad for this movie, and I vaguely remember seeing "the trailer" from back then, obviously I didn't understand it at the time, however, it stuck with me memory until at the age of 16 I manage to see it, around 92'. I liked the movie even more! That's where I discovered my idol actor. Also at that time I saw Caligula for the first time. And further confirm my fascination with the acting presence of Mr. Malcolm Mc Dowell.
Already in recent years, with so much information, I have been able to see part of his filmography, among which jewels such as If ..., O lucky man!, etc etc etc stand out.
I think that this LORD was not born to make these movies... Those movies were born for him!!!
Can't imagine anyone else playing "Alex de Large" or "Caligula"!!!
Today I am 46 years old.
He ‘ s a great guy is Malcolm McDowell . What a brilliant actor he is , his films are all classics !
The Film is very stylish , very late sixties.
Hes a Legend❤
Best movie ever. And it needed 3!!! people to make it: Burgess, Kubrick and McDowell!
He is AS important as the other 2.
He threw so much of himself into the film!!
He IS Alex. Must have been so hard to look how you can play this evil force.
Other actors would have made him just evil.
But McDowell realized, that besides the violence and the raping Alex is a very nice guy who enjoys himself! 😎🧡
Over time, Alex De Large became probably the most important role in Malcolm's career as an actor, after doing A clockwork orange, I think he couldn't make another movie as cool as that Kubrick's movie.
Legend
I think of him every time I get in my Corvette and raise my one eyebrow! So iconic! It’s just a great movie!!! 🙋♂️👍🖖🏻
It's so sad to see how we all get old , I watch clockwork once every 6 months if Im drinking, Alex is my hero x
It's called life.
My introduction to A Clockwork Orange was getting the WB Studio Store catalogs back in the day. Damn, did I love getting those in the mail. I was probably 10 years old, and always seeing merchandise from the movie with that iconic logo. Now I had no idea what it was about, other than it's a pretty big deal, and seems pretty damn cool. So when I first watched it in my late teens maybe...it was certainly more hardcore than I imagined. That's the kinda risks directors were allowed to take back then that could never be touched upon again, other than some very tucked away indy film, and even then...
He just gets better looking with age, like a fine wine!! Wow!!
Still have the vintage wine he gave me on the set of milk money great guy and actor
I love Malcolm forever 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Yesterday's triumphs are yesterday's triumphs, This film and times it represents, are gone.
Actually given the woke crime wave enveloping all major American cities today and the government suppression of unpopular thought, 2023 is more like a Clockwork Orange than 1969. The film was prescient for it was set then “in the not too distant future “.
A masterpiece
I had the honor and privilege to see Anthony Burgess lecture at Wabash College 1975. I can't recall whether he spoke before or after the film was shown. If a word was never uttered the set direction and music would have carried the film. Mr. Burgess did say he had a problem with the ending. He said a novel is not a novel unless the protagonist changes in some way. The main thrust of the message was and remains that a man is not a man unless he has free will.
very good interview! Cheers!
Bowie used line "Droogie don't crash here." in "Suffragette City." "Space Oddity" inspired from "2001" Cool to hear Stones tried to make it. Mick Jagger would have been a great Alex.
Ich freu mich so für ihn,so wundervolle Kinder zu haben!❤
Malcolm MacDowell - the best walk in Hollywood
I've read the original version. Anthony Burgess explained, in the foreword-- and I'm paraphrasing --
"Writers are numerologists. The book was written in 21 chapters. 21 is the age of adulthood. Alex grows up in the final chapter."
Burgess wrote the book to pay the rent. He publicly distanced himself from it. He hated the movie, saying that it "wallowed in sex and violence." True, but so did the book.
The movie is awful. The book is awful. Age of adulthood is 21 only in the western world, duh.
The legend is back : D
"A Clockwork Orange" was and is a great film. Malcolm McDowell was and is a great actor. Stanley Kubrick was exactly the right director to make the film version of Burgess' book. Anthony Burgess was a brilliant writer and it is a brilliant book. It was the perfect combination to make this brilliant movie.
Thanks for sharing!
Poor Malcom, he's clearly so sick of talking about this movie, lol. He got a second wind after Kubrick croaked and was enthusiastic about talking about it for a good decade or more, but man, he's told all these stories a million times before, in countless interviews and Q&As you can get on youtube. (I'm laughing, I"m seeing a 40th anniversary interview being recommended right next to where I"m typing, lol). The BEST way to get his memories is to watch the DVD commentary he did, it's really great.
That's why I kinda feel bad for actors if one role they do gets overshadowed and they'll always be recognised as that one character and not be known for other roles. Malcolm Mcdowell's a good example but so is Daniel Radcliffe
Crazy that The Rolling Stones were all muted to feature in the film, championed by the Beatles, with Jagger taking the reins as the lead character Alex DeLarge
It's criminal Malcolm didn't get more screen time on Entourage....
what a great actor! His Eyes, his mimic-when he smiles he´s like the devil himself
he always reminds me of a hardcore STING. He did such a great job in that movie
he STILL spooks me when i see him in that role!!
Of course a movie like this couldn't be made today. Most people still have a hard time watching it,and it was released 50 years years ago! It's not a movie for everybody.
Nope. I regretted for years taking my loveliest high school crush to see it. Later, my equally lovely wife told me she fell asleep watching it, and that made me laugh and put it all in perspective.
My parents took me and a gf to see *A CLOCKWORK ORANGE* for my 18th birthday. I’m not certain, but I think it was rated X back then. When it ended and we left the theater, my friend had a look of horror on her face; I, otoh, was entranced. I’d read the book a few times by then until I was fluent in Nadsat - still am. Since then I’ve seen *CLOCKWORK* probably more than 50x. But it’s been a long time since my last viddy …
viddy well my droogies viddy well
Malcom Mcdowell is great to listen to. it must be hard doing a movie where everyone keeps asking you about it. Having said that it was very memorable and he recognises that. That is a good question about whether it would be made today. I think we need edgy things like this even more. Every now and then there is a bright diamond that glints in the dust and dirt ...and that is what Clockwork Orange is......
Would like very much to share a pint or cup of coffee with this man. He is a very different kind of artist.