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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel.It employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
Alex is the narrator in the novel A Clockwork Orange. The character is portrayed as a thrill-seeking sociopath who robs, rapes, and assaults innocent people for his own amusement. Intellectually, he knows that such behaviour is morally wrong, saying that "you can't have a society with everybody behaving in my manner of the night".
During pre-production of Batch '81, director Mike de Leon had the creative team watch several foreign films, including A Clockwork Orange. [7] The torture scene in Reservoir Dogs (1992), set to "Stuck in the Middle With You", was described by Quentin Tarantino in an interview as a direct reference to the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex ...
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in March 17, 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence.
Kubrick found McDowell's gaze compelling enough to put on the poster for A Clockwork Orange. [6] Kubrick went on to extensively use the technique that bore his name in almost all his films, [1] most notably in Full Metal Jacket (1987) and The Shining (1980). [9] Other directors and actors have relied on the technique to convey derangement. [1]
After completing A Clockwork Orange, Corri kept in touch with Kubrick, who complained to her about the problem he had of losing socks whenever he did the washing, so for Christmas she gave him a pair of bright red socks, a humorous reference to her scene in A Clockwork Orange in which, after Alex had finished snipping off her red pyjama suit ...
Republican Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran is facing calls to resign after he inserted a colleague's name into a passage he read during a floor debate from a book's rape scene that included ...
A Clockwork Orange: Banned during the military dictatorship for containing obscenity and "promiscuous content". A censored version of black polka dots covering the breasts and genitals of the actors in the nude scenes became available in the country in 1978. [66] [67] 1972–1979 Last Tango in Paris