What makes A Clockwork Orange a “Kubrick Movie?” | Screenwriting
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Hello cinephiles! Welcome to Making Film where we take an in-depth look at how cinema’s greatest artists made their films. My name is Tyler and, in this episode on the screenwriting of A Clockwork Orange, we are taking a look at the themes, many of which actually appear throughout Kubrick’s work as well as structural similarities to his other films.
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This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen.
Kubrick: "Certainly one thing which relates to the story is the question of how authority can cope with problems of law and order without becoming too oppressive and, more particularly, in relation to the ever-increasing view that politics are irrelevant to the solution of social problems, that there's no time for political and legal solutions, that social issues have to be solved immediately even if this means going outside law and politics. What solutions authority may evolve certainly concerns me, and is one of the great unanswered social problems."
Sources:
Cinephilia & Beyond - ‘A Clockwork Orange’: Kubrick and Burgess’ Vision of the Modern World - bit.ly/2CAfI0o
The Old Ultra-Violence: A Clockwork Orange - January 30, 2018 Vincent LoBrutto
Bluray Commentary
Mind’s Eye: A Clockwork Orange - John Hofsess 1971
Kubrick Archives - Alison Castle
A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Turning Like Clockwork
Interviews About Stanley Kubrick, 1970s - Film 31534
GREAT BOLSHY YARBLOCKOS! Making A Clockwork Orange - Gary Leva
My Droog Hell by Gareth Grundy
Kubrick Exhibit Book
Masks of Violence by Marisa Buovolo
Kubrick New Perspectives
Excerpts From Rare Kubrick Interview By Siskel In 1972 - March 08, 1999
Interview with Stanley Kubrick regarding A Clockwork Orange by Philip Strick & Penelope Houston
Anthony Burgess and Malcom McDowell analysis Clockwork Orange - James MacAndrew - • Anthony Burgess and Ma...
Clips:
The Killing (1956 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange (1971 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Barry Lyndon (1975 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Shining (1980 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Full Metal Jacket (1987 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999 dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Music:
Epidemic Sound
"No one expects that the government would literally employ such a treatment,"? Ten years earlier Alan Turing submitted to chemical castration for his crime of "gross indecency" (consensual homosexual sex). Clockwork Orange was (and still is) a lot closer to the truth than many people are comfortable with.
Just my 2c worth -- thanks for another great essay!
Good point... :/
JFQ
The US still uses death penalty up to this day...
@@Figue- Not for homosexuality. Then again they were quite big with eugenics in the fourtys
The attempt to mind control Alex into being good through pain is man playing God. Man cannot do what God can do. Which is why you get the less than idea results of Alex being dehumanized. He is not able to defend himself when attacked. Self defense is a righteous act. Humans as usual cover up there mistakes and attempt to make the same mistakes again. Which is why the ending of the movie. Alex's mind control was with pleasure instead of pain. Only God can create a new heart within a human. Any attempt of man doing this will result is error. Man cannot do what God can do.
"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10
Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; Galatians 5:16
There are states of America today that still haven't outlawed conversion therapy, and unfortunately some of those camps use or had used in the past similar technology to what we observe in A Clockwork Orange as fiction.
KUBRICK is a genre of his own
Only in the minds of pretentious twats like you
I agree, Kubrick had his own distinct style. He made very good movies.
Damn straight. 100 % genius
I agree
he spans many genres
Tyler should get a PhD on Kubrick. You have enough material already
all things fascinating But then he’d need to continue presenting research annually and what kind of research journal would he submit to.
If someone were to remake _Clockwork_ (please don't), they would most likely say that their version would be "closer to the book", which is the kiss of death (hey, 'Stephen King's The Shining', with Steven Webber!). Clockwork is so completely Kubrick, in that the greatest and most memorable things about it are the unique decisions that Stanley made. Burgess' book is absolutely amazing, and a must-read for any fan of the film, but Kubrick's hand, from art direction, shot selection, visual style, film speed, costuming, and so on, are the things that truly resonate, and the things you would miss from an inevitably inferior attempt to revisit this property.
IIRC, Burgess regarded "A Clockwork Orange" as one of his lesser works. Sure, the book has its charms, droog slang not being the least of them, but it's definitely not the book Burgess wanted to be the most remembered of his works.
Well said!! I still read this book to this day. Excellent book & excellent film, in their own rights!
I totally agree. The book is superb, and Kubricks film is very faithful to the book. The movie is perfect.kubrick is on top form and Malcolm McDowell owns every scene he is in. Remaking it will be a total pointless exercise that will fall flat. (You can't recreate genius)
I love Kubrick's interpretation as much as any hard core fan. But the book stands on it's own without the film. It is a story that could be reinterpreted by others. The Book is already genius- another interpretation, if done well, would be hardly a pointless exercise.
@@animageofsound5351 It could work as a
tv miniseries, but with execution by a very
competent craftsman .
Spielberg perhaps ?
Tyler, you’ve done so many good videos on Kubrick that you should start informally referring to him as “Stan the Man” or “The Kubster”, like he’s an old fraternity buddy.
Rubick's Cube-rix
Kooby dooby doo. Stanley the K
Try the WINE
BE im pleased you like good WIIINNNEE
have another glass
no its have anahder glasszzzzzzz..
FOOOOOOD. ALRIGHT.
oh my Brothers and friends, what for excellent analysis !
*_I am still drinking milk while watching this movie. It's nice to have my profile pic as Alex._*
And I just saw you on fact fiend
Real horroshow, my pal
Milk with daggers
+Juztenable It is “Moloko with Knives” you illiterate film person
Music plays a big part too. It's obvious he thinks deeply about what music to use.
Paul Thomas Anderson kinda reminds me of Kubrick with how he uses satire to reel you in a bit, but he also frames his shots very similarly to Kubrick as well.
I generally don’t get scared by horror films, I am never phased by them, but everytime i watch a clockwork orange I always feel uncomfortable.
Fractured Films it’s disturbing
When we rented A Clockwork Orange, my friends and I had the worst time - out of simple weirdness.
Daniel Rosa
I got that
Same with shining , not scared, but holy fuck the film makes me uncomfortable more than any horror film made. I have no idea why.
Stefan Brockelbank b
I thought it was funny
It was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
NEXT.
Really well-researched, Tyler! I like Kubrick's movies and this series has helped me understand why.
Kubrick is seriously the most underrated comedy director lol yes, Dr. Strangelove is hilarious, but I find Clockwork, Barry Lyndon and Full Metal Jacket nearly as hilarious.
The Shining is hilarious in places too, thanks to Nicholson's over the top performance as Jack. 'Wendy, give me the bat.....' that whole bit has always make me laugh. I think my favorite is Eyes Wide Shut though. Yes, the film raises all sorts of serious questions about who holds the power in the modern world, but it is also a movie about a guy who can't get laid, even at an orgy!
I was editing an episode in a series going on on my channel and this popped up, I clicked soooooo fast, and I was also kinda struck by suprise when I saw this video, because the themes of this movie are very similar to the series I was talking about, and to show that I have put in small references to a clockwork orange in the series to kind of translate the meaning. But I've got to say, great video!
Another great analysis but the game show music in the background with Kubrick's images is just jarring.
I would love to see what you'd say about Fellini. He is one of my favorite directors, and I think you'd do wonders with his stuff. Please do consider!
Thanks for the suggestion! Someday!
Excellent video, but... why the goofy cartoon music?
Boris Berlin he should have used Ludwig van
Parody perhaps.
It's perfect!
I often wonder if Napoleon would have been made if he decided not to make a clockwork orange I love Napoleonic history so it would be my favourite automatically
Brendan McCabe there was problems with the studios
The Power I don’t think there were.
The Power yes but he made a clockwork orange as something to do in between what were supposed to be two massive films 2001 and then Napoleon and then a clockwork orange came out and got a lot of controversy and maybe if he had kept trying to get Napoleon made instead of a clockwork orange someone would studio would have accepted it
Brendan McCabe yeah it was supposed to be a cheaply made movie wedged between two epics that had a big budget.
No. The film "Waterloo" bombed at the box office, and none of the major studios were in the mood to take another gamble on Napoleon or the Napoleonic wars. Kubrick had planned it as an epic on the scale of "Spartacus" and would have needed a huge budget. Apparently he put the project aside and just never came back to it. Pity.
Dude, I love the background music! Nice video, keep it up!
The fact Kubrick directed it...
clockwork might not be an actualy comedy but its certainly funny.
I’m really glad your channel is growing. I really get a lot out of your videos. *brofist*
1:38 I wasn't expecting memes from being a part of a Kubrick analysis and it had me bursting out laughing more than it should have
I think Clockwork is hilarious
Upon seeing this video title I received a tingle in my dingle.
Amazing analysis of my favorite movie! Love your videos and insight!
Barry Lyndon has some moments of pure comedy gold. The death of Lord Charles Lyndon, for example: like an 18th-century cartoon come to life.
Yuppie!, I missed you already
Another great video.
But that goofy background music makes it hard to take what you say seriously at times. Like "am i supposded to laugh at this"? :P
Oddly, the first bit was the zither theme from The Third Man, but played on a guitar.
The Chorus: "Is there any doubt that I have successfully hidden from you all information about what (which) things I dislike, and that this is the only source of my pride?"
I'd bet that A Clockwork Orange is a cold war film mourning gambling (after it was made illegal in the Soviet Union [likely decades earlier]).
About the chorus (in Greek plays):
it's something which keeps track of everything which has unfolded but has no power (cannot punish) and is not the government or the leader in the story
it must be there to ensure that being an audience member (audience members need to consensually be audience members) for the whole duration of the story is something which can be done while the audience members are *acting naturally* (so to speak). otherwise it's very weird for them to sit and observe the story (and what the fuck are they supposed to do while watching the play? whisper to each other? such questions can be transcended through the addition of a chorus. it's a very scientific thing because it includes consent)
otherwise the audience members will not be able to keep track of the events naturally (their attention spans will be wasted and they won't understand the plot and it's obviously very bold to interrupt the theatre actors to ask them to"rewind").
6:15 -- I think perhaps you've missed a more obvious interpretation of the name of the book and the film. "Orange" is the opposite colour to Blue, which is often associated with being depressed. LIke Clockwork, they promise to fix Alex and make him Orange instead of Blue.
wow thats not obvious at all i would say 😅
You need to rethink this "analysis."
Just started reading the book again!
Tyler Frazier would love to read the book is it still in print?
@@beckygould7509 oh yeah, you can get it on Amazon or they probly have it at your local Barns n Noble
Tyler Frazier TY !
He is the American master...Barry Lyndon being his most under appreciated film.
I love your channel, each video is better than the last
damn this deserves multiple watches, hard to chew in some parts..the music is outstanding
Awesome vids. I like the philosophy and theme work in your analysis.
Dude, this was awesome. Excellent analysis link the book when it's out!
My favourite movie ever.
I'm just discovering your channel, but I wanted to give one critique, where everything else is perfect. Not a fan of game show-style background music during very pertinent information. Your script is always so thoughtful and laid out, that the music distracts from the information being laid out. Love your channel.
As always, fantastic video.
The film gives us perhaps the scariest ambiguity of all.
What if the Ludovico Treatment, once undone, still actually worked? This, in my opinion, is the most cynical perspective of all. That the only way to redeem evil IS to strip its owner of personhood, and then regift them the ability to choose after they’ve been dehumanized. The ending of the film, in contrast to the book, doesn’t tell us whether Alex is a less violent person. But the implication, sexually, is that he is. One could make the argument the treatment worked-that only through the immense suffering the treatment made him endure does he become human. The question then becomes “Does society lose something invaluable by discontinuing the Ludovico Treatment for the sake of good publicity?” A far more harrowing and demented question.
Alex is a symbol for humankind. That is why he is never really at odds with his society, which is monstrous. However, I do not think the film is pessimistic. It is full of energy, creativity, humor, & most of all, brilliantly used music.
If you pay close attention to the last shot, you will prove the point you are making. Ok, Alex may be enjoying carnality, but that is a wedding scene we are looking at. It's not the fast forward 3some we seem him involed in earlier, it's a man and his wife enjoying a good ole, healthy shag! Alex wasn't lying or being ironic when he says 'I was cured alright'.
Great job. i was looking for more information about the new book you mentioned: "i am jack's axe." Can you provide a link for this? I have been trying to study various perspectives of the film, The Shining for a long time.
Thanks! There's no link yet, but I'll make sure to update when one becomes available.
Love the Beethoven No. 9 Janissary music at the beginning
the cycle you're talking about is called Chiastic structure
It's used a lot in fables, myths and religion going back to writings from the bronze age and still in use in more modern works like the LOTR.
I wonder if this comes from Kubrick's use of literary elements and structures in film.
The theme of willingly conforming to violence would've been quite pronounced in Aryan Papers.
Are you familiar with the three great movies by Linsey Anderson ? If , Lucky Man and Britannia Hospital with McDowell playing the lead protagonist in all three.
The book is AMAZING and by contrast .....
Please you must talk about Kubrick's Napoleon script
ID LOVE TO SEE THE 20 MINS CUT FROM EYES WIDE SHUT,,,OR GO THROUGH THE SCREENPLAY TO SEE ANY DIFFERENCES
that movie killed stanley k.
Whether you like this film or hate it, it will definitely make you think and feel something no matter what,it's one movie you can watch that's garaunteed to leave you affected
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1:53 you right about that?
Can you please drop the music? It's like the Penny Lane video, where the video has nothing to do with the music.
Exactly. It's the one area where Tyler often fails.
Your content is interesting but your background music is hard to sit through
Tyler I love your videos but the background music is irrelevant and annoying. Please take note.
@@jimpickard3850 He should have used "The Thieving Magpie" for the background music.
i like it
Just discovered your channel..... THX!!!
More Kubrick!!!
Great work as usual, too bad about the inappropriate music though.
My God your videos are brilliant, man
A lot of directors see things differently then the average person but that's what makes them special.. A little fucked up but special..
14:27 I DON'T REMEMBER THAT SCENE AT ALL from Clockwork Orange
In prison, when he is talking about the Bible, he mentions that he likes Old Testament more because there was killing and action, and this is one of his fantasies
@@NeedForMadnessSVK oh yeah, thanks 😊
why did he leave out the last chapter of the book from the film..?
Wow this is amazing. Thank you.
Hey I recently watched A Clockwork Orange and was really struck by how intentionally funny it was.
This is sick
great work man
my favorite movie
is this matt the radar technician at 01:07 ??
This is a very good viddy.
Kubrick knew he was it. THE one, the creator, God . HE just didn't KNOW how he was doing it.
What do you think of "the Ludovico Lie", Tyler? It's in a couple of videos by Collative Learning - please look
Sorry love no time for the ol' in and out i'm only here to check the meter
Simple, it’s great!
Well, I call that Jimmy Johnsoning. It always helps when you have a genius like Tom Landry or Anthony Burgess or Arthur C walk through the door first and leave lits on the shelves. He would the priests told me disavow Sparta cus because he didn't read Tacitus until after filmed the script by Dalton.
All of Kubricks films are comedies, we’re just not quite smart enough as humans to get most of the jokes yet. He made a horror film where one person died.. I mean c’mon.
It's not just a 'cynical view' of authority though. Kubrick's films ALL feature characters who are in some way divorced form the normal societal and authoritative restraints that govern normal behavior. They are isolated from normal forms of control in order to see how they'll behave unfettered. The violence/reason dichotomy that then emerges in virtually every case seems to suggest that Kubrick believes the two inseparable. The very qualities that make technology and progress possible are those which lead to violence.
I love clockwork orange but some scenes is really fucked up
Can you make a video about david fisher or some movies recomendations or directors recomendations ?
Thanks for the suggestion! I do have plans to do a recommendation video at some point.
With having read the notorious 21st chapter, Alex becomes good as far as I'm concerned, on his own, he at the point of seeing Pete and his family in the diner, just gets it, like what life is about. At that point Alex abandoned his new droogies and goes off to become a family man. The End!
However, watching Kubricks version, I always felt as if Alex returns to his evil self-indulgence and snickers silently at everyone knowing he has beat the system. Alex acts as though he is a good little boy and signs his waver to freedom and then starts a life in politics, gains wealth along the way, becoming a dictator with- Grand Delutions of Grandiose Prosperity gaining a stature greater than any other vile leader in history. And oh yes my brothers viddy well, viddy a horror show of the utmost ultraviolet light ever viddied in Alex's sureal playground of a carnaged plaged Society.... and all that cal.
1:29 "No you"
4:27 the word you are looking for is Palindromatic Structure
I’m British .. and i endorse this film
Exactly what i need right now :P
Paul Thomas Anderson said Barry Lyndon was a comedy in an interview lmao same with There Will Be Blood
Why is there music blasting throughout the video?
It's perfect!
I very much find A Clockwork Orange to be a comedy, but I am a sick bastard.
8:52 you're wrong about this one, not the WILL to do evil, but the CAPACITY to do evil.
We all NEED to have the power and capability to do evil, but the thing that makes us civilized and "men", is that we CHOOSE not to do the evil we're capable of, we rather CHOOSE to do something better. THAT is what makes a human being a human. Not the "will" to do evil, but the "ability", the "option".
It was directed by him.
3:30 "committing "axe" of violence"
It does make you wonder what parts of everyday life inspired Kubrick for Clockwork Orange. While the question of how much control over the public's morality the government should have isn't frivolous, the idea of the choice to do wrong being an inherent human right is somewhat original.
Any remake would be well..... ultra-sacrilegious.
Great channel
"A society controlled by technical experts ..."
everything?
kubrick's comedy movie ? what about full metal jacket ?
Excellent analysis undermined by requisite inappropriate music sound level in relation to narration, a mystifying and nearly universal trait of RUclips videos.
The background music was a bit vexing...
Tobacc0 vexing background that interferes with the narration is requisite for RUclips videos.
Gotttdyaaam this was good ...
Almost felt like reading Foucault and Nietzsche at the same time 😝..
The attempt to mind control Alex into being good through pain is man playing God. Man cannot do what God can do. Which is why you get the less than idea results of Alex being dehumanized. He is not able to defend himself when attacked. Self defense is a righteous act. Humans as usual cover up there mistakes and attempt to make the same mistakes again. Which is why the ending of the movie. Alex's mind control was with pleasure instead of pain. Only God can create a new heart within a human. Any attempt of man doing this will result is error. Man cannot do what God can do.
"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel @
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm @
Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians @
And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; Galatians @
Probably because he directed it.