Stanley Kubrick's “A Clockwork Orange” William K. Everson interviews Malcolm McDowell 1971
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What strikes me in this interview is this. This is 1971 and right from the start the guest takes all liberty to disagree straightforwardly with the host, after which he’s given opportunity, without any interruption, to make his point, very intelligently, as Malcolm McDowell is a clever guy. Remarkable as manifestations such as these are unthinkable on 2024 TV.
I am very curious as to how many in the western world actually watch television channels anymore. I stopped completely about ten years ago and only watch RUclips (premium), Netflix and intermittently other streaming platforms. I hate commercials and interruptions so that's why I left television forever. I used to have cable, but when even those channels started having commercials, which they didn't have before, I left cable also.
It has to be a very diminishing number of the population that persist in watching commercial television. The fact that commercial television still exists if proof that people give them the time of day and keep using their services. I for one just cannot understand why.
If I happen to walk in a room where a commercial tv channel is playing or I visit someone who is watching commercial tv, I feel dirty and out of place.
It's archaic.
People have forgotten how to agree to disagree with each other.
This, this, this?
What strikes me about the interview is this: It's 1971, and right from the start....
@@stuartwray6175 Forgive my limitations as a non-English speaker. Sorry for annoying you. I'll try harder next time, sir!
@@martinboere3274 I wasn't annoyed. No disrespect intended. 👍🏻
LOL I love the wide shot at the end revealing a 3rd guy who's been smoking a cigar next to them the whole time.
It's Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange
And smoking the cigar comically. I completely lost it😂
the third guy is the author of the book on which the movie was based. Anthony Burgess.
same
"Its no good having a great distribution system, if you have no film." A great description of the current state of film making and entertainment :(
I love the way he speaks
Watched this movie again last night. It was on TCM.
Wow well done. Fascinating
Same, it’s so great!
Malcolm McDowell is one of the best actors of all time.
Oh please
I love how Malcolm supported Stanley, and sighted examples. When people speak about others and don’t have a personal connection with them, it shows their ignorance, not the person they’re discussing.
well there are other interviews, that everyone needs to check out where Malcolm openly calls Kubrick incompetent, who was a trouble to work with. This interview preferably is a marketing attempt, he cant openly disagree to him completely, given Kubrick was a powerful filmmaker of his time (and the years later).
That may be the case, but when you are interviewed usually you have a corresponding mood and energy that you’re holding that feeds into your responses, that has nothing to do with anyone but you, and your own perception, and are subsequently subject to change. I still believe that looking at a person’s positive attributes is more effective than the latter, regardless of the past experiences. Because after all, that’s the energy that the person reviewing the past decides to hold for themselves. 👍
How does this have 51 views. This is amazing
Everybody's watching the rape video that Billyboy posted.
@@willshaw3493Grow up, imbecile.
@@willshaw3493long journey begins with single step
0:32 The scowl on McDowell's face :D
would love to see the rest of the interview
Same here
For me one of the best castings in film history.
And great conversation. Best RUclips video I found in last time.
Bill Everson was one of my favorite film professors when I attended NYU in the 1970s. And he was incredibly generous with his students, lending 16mm films from his fabulous collection in New York City, as well as offering private screenings. Although Malcolm McDowell says he disagrees with Bill Everson, Malcolm glossed over Bill's substantive points characterizing Stanley Kubrick as "not easy to work with."
What Bill meant by that was that Stanley was a perfectionist, and unless you were up for that, there were going to be problems. Cinematographer Garrett Brown, who did the Steadicam work on "The Shining" said that Stanley demanded as many as 100 takes of the same scene. Garrett commented on Stanley's approach: "Filmmaking is a business of compromise; you never get it exactly right except by accident or when you worked with Stanley." Shelley Duvall had a nervous breakdown on the set of "Shining" from Stanley's demands for perfection. In "A Clockwork Orange", Malcolm endured take after take on a scene where another actor spits on his face. Malcolm said that Stanley wanted the spit to make a specific shape on the character's face.
Then there was the other scene in "Clockwork" where Malcolm had to endure attachments to his eyelids that forced his eyes to remain open. Here's how Malcolm himself described what happened on the set:
"I did scratch my corneas, that is correct. My eyes were anesthetized so I couldn’t feel those lid locks scraping down my eyes. The doctor was a real doctor from Moorfields Eye Hospital who kept putting in artificial teardrops because you can’t leave your eyes dry too long, you have to keep them moist. That was his job. Stanley decided to put him in the scene and give him a line, which was a big mistake. He was more concerned with his stupid line of dialogue, something like: “How are we feeling today, little Alex?” He kept saying: “What’s your name again?” “I mean, Jesus, doc, it doesn’t matter, just get those drops in.” I was home an hour later when the anaesthetic wore off and I’ve never felt pain like it. My own doctor came around and gave me a shot of morphine in my ass, which sent me to sleep. When I woke up the next day, it felt like I’d had a whole sack of sand in my eyes. The eyes heal themselves very quickly, so I didn’t suffer any permanent damage, only psychological."
This was what I believe that Bill meant when he said that Stanley "wasn't easy to work with." The fact that Stanley was open to new ideas on the set, such as incorporating Malcolm's "Singing In the Rain" idea, doesn't cut against Bill's assessment that Stanley was exceptionally demanding and a perfectionist.
Awesome
What a GREAT clip!
Great thanks
Wonder what they told them the scene was about when asking for permission to use the song.
MICHAEL STOP ! great actor
“He’s not rigid” unless the occasion calls for it!😂
Did McDowell have a significant career? He seems like such a professional, I’d like to see more of his movies. Only really know him from clockwork orange.
Well watching 'If' although the ending is a bit silly 👍
@@chrisbush8410 I JUST made the connection between old man McDowell and clockwork McDowell when youtube pulled up another interview with him. I can’t believe for as many times as I have seen old man McDowell I never connected him to clockwork. So yea it seems he has had an extremely significant career since he’s still popping up in so many movies all the time 😂
Ok but... Young Malcolm Mcdowell 👀
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I wondering this type of acting brilliance is seen today? I don't know.
A Clockwork Orange was a GREAT movie which has been spurned in recent years for woke, political correctness reasons.
Kubrick had complete control over his movies, apart from Eyes Wide Shut, I wonder why?
Enough with these bullshit rumors. Aside from dying before its release, what do you mean he didn't have control over EWS ?
How about because he died while filming it? Next question.
@@mixelplik LOL. he didn't die while filming, he completed the film and then died shortly after. You couldn't even get that right.
@@vittoriostoraro Enough of your bullshit ignorance! He didn't, so why where 20 mins of the film not shown. If he had total control why where those 20 mins not included? Do you not question things ever?
@@katoness I don't know a single film which wouldn't have some material cut out. The cut material wasn't good enough for the film.
"Kubrick is not at all hard to work with"
- Tell that to Shelley Duvall (rip btw).
looks like if william forsythe and john mcginley had the same dad
little alex lol
Am I the one who think Malcolm looks like Evan Peters?
no comment necessary - just watch the interview and keep whatever blathers your mind generates to yourself
I'm just going to assume you recognize the irony of this and carry on. lol
“No comment necessary” then why are you commenting?
@@simonmosca514 so you've gone out of your way to say out loud, "I'm as dumb as a rock". Any other nuggets you'd like to share with the world ? The floor is yours...
@@peopledork0 did you or did you not say “no comment necessary”? In a RUclips comment. Do you not see the irony? If you don’t see the irony it’s you who is as dumb as a rock. Do I need to teach you the definition of irony?
Can’t unsee this trash, and it’s been decades since I’ve seen it..💀
You mean decades since you hid with your eyes covered! 😆
@@redbarchetta8782 You could say he had his eyes wide shut.
Malcolm would have not been allowed to use the word “rape” in the interview these days, indeed Stanley would have not been allowed to include the scene in the film these days!
The movie was banned in many places for years. People wanted to cancel it back then, and it received an X rating instead of an R.
@@LuisAngel-mu4zv I would go over all the facts you have wrong, but what would be the point? It was Kubrick himself who decided to stop showing the film in the UK after his family was threatened. Also, nothing was cut from the film to get its R rating in the US.
Not allowed to say "RAPE"? Not Allowed by whom? What bullshit woke dystopia do you live in? FYI: The word RAPE was on the original poster artwork.
@@vittoriostoraro many cinemas in the UK. And family being threatened is a form of wanting to cancel someone lol, it's even worse if you ask me.
The film did receive an X rating, you can go a search it, Kubrick has to make very small changes, like changing the speed in which Alex is hit with the glass milk, the mmpa is wierd.
And also there's x rated films with full nudity on Netflix now, people are more desensitized today than they were back then. People have always complained, you just see it more now because we have more platforms and internet, but overall people are more desensitized.
This movie is tame compared to the sex and violence in today’s world.
:47 HEH. uh... EVERYONE? When they FIRST are asked, they all hide the truth and say oh he was great! Later, it turns out Kubrick was very demanding and sometimes did way too many takes and put the actors into excessively stressful situations. Ask Shelley Duvall.
Sure but there was also a great humanity and straightforward clarity to his attitude which actors who worked with him admired.
@@antoinepetrov probably a mixed bag. Some had an easier time, some had a rougher time. Very intelligent man, though. You have to give credit because he went the extra mile.
🥱 Another know-nothing weighs in. A Director will do as many takes as his deemed necessary by THEM. Go away. "Wokers" like yourself, delight in trying taking down great artists. Filmmaking is not a Montessori school.
easily the worst kubrick film imo. i have no interest in rewatching it i dont think ever. there's actually no redeeming qualities to it at all aside from some interesting cinematography. nobody wants to see people getting beat, r*ped and killed unless they have a snuff film fetish or something. however i am ginormous fan of some of his other stuff like dr strangelove and the shining.
The Shining is about a man going insane by murdering his family. That's not very redeeming either. But in horror it's perfectly acceptable.
I would never watch a snuff video in my life, i don't think i would handle it at all! I cried when i saw a dead cat that wasn't even mine while walking on the street.
I like a clockwork orange, so please don't judge or generalize people the way that you do, just because you're biased.
Criticize the film for other things other than saying people like to for a specific reason.
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