A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Added 2025-02-28 21:33:53 +0000 UTCI’m at work at cant do a write up rn LOL
This movie!!!!
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Apparently the real UK in the 70s was rather dystopian, with garbage collector and other strikes throughout the decade. So not surprising Kubrick & Burgess envisioned the future London the way they did. Kubrick actually pulled Clockwork from British theaters due to the backlash, and it never showed there until after his death. (There was a thriving black market for videos of the film for decades.) I haven't read the book in a long time, but I believe that Kubrick actually softened the brutality of the book for the film (IIRC, the threesome scene involved drugging pre-teens, and the cat lady was much older). Malcolm McDowell is fantastic. He said that he modeled his performance partly on James Cagney, and you can see it in his face in many scenes.
JM63
2025-03-19 18:50:30 +0000 UTCKubrick said he wanted to use surreal humour to ''underpin'' the obviously very bleak and depressing subject matter. By the end of the story this already dystopian London has gotten much worse; A State controlled totalitarian nightmare. Interestingly, the ending here is different to the one in the book. In the movie we see Alex's sexual fantasy in the closing shot, but the final act in the book is basically him back on the streets with a new gang, getting up to all of the crimes he committed in the first act, only ramped up more extreme. Kubrick later said he deeply regretted making the movie so violent; It was issued an X-rating and then banned in a bunch of countries for 20 years. Then to make matters worse, the media in England blamed a string of adolescent sex crimes on the film, claiming that the criminals were dressed like ''Droogs.'' Kubrick and his family were sent hate mail, including death threats. It was awful for them. He never made a more controversial and divisive film the remainder of his career. By the way, how AMAZING is Malcolm McDowell in this? It was only his second movie role, too. In the book, Anthony Burgess called this fictional street slang 'Nadsat', which he described as a cross between Russian slang, Cockney slang and Shakespearean English. Pretty crazy, but he tried to imagine how the youth might speak in a future Britain. As a result, the dialogue is very memorable.
Samuelllll
2025-03-17 22:13:04 +0000 UTCCan’t see that being true!
Amalia Wolf
2025-03-06 02:05:54 +0000 UTCThe movie is absolutely brilliant. But the book, in my opinion, might be even better.
Michael T
2025-03-06 01:18:12 +0000 UTC
