MPAA Classification: R (Sex, nudity, violence, rape) .
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Michael Bates.
Director: Stanley Kubrick.
Producer: Warner Bros.
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.
Cinematography: John Alcott.
Music: Walter Carlos.
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Released in 1971, A Clockwork Orange was produced, directed and written by Stanley Kubrick's, based upon the novel by Anthony Burgess. This science fiction, ultra-violent, graphic film was absolutely terrifying. The colorful set designs by John Barry, costume design by Milena Canonero, music by Walter Carlos and the cinematography by John Alcott, produced a striking, unforgettable film portraying graphic rape and explicit violence yet very bizarre.
A Clockwork Orange is a formalistic film based about the life of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell). Nothing much matters to Alex except for rape, the ultra violence, and the music of Beethoven. He spends his evenings drinking drugged milk at the Korova milk bar, hanging out with his "droogs", and looking for violent entertainment that brings him such joy, usually at the expense of others. Throughout the film, Alex and friends are seen beating a homeless man, getting into a gang fight, stealing a car, and raping a woman while forcing her husband to watch. This is pretty much a standard evening for Alex and his boys, and things would probably go on like this, if not for the fact that Alex feels the need to keep his friends in line and under his command. This commanding side of Alex doesn't sit well with his friends, and as a payback, they set him up. Alex is arrested for the murder of a wealthy woman and is sentenced to fourteen years in prison.
While imprisoned, Alex hears of a new government experiment designed to curb violent tendencies, he goes to extreme lengths to be chosen as the guinea pig. He's taken to a medical center, where for two weeks, he's put in a theater and forced to watch violent films.
A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
A Clockwork Orange Authors who write of other times and places help us to better understand our own lives. Discuss A Clockwork Orange in terms of that statement. ... He is a walking robot conditioned by the government - a clockwork orange. ... "A Clockwork Orange" deals with moral judgment and the thought of taking it away from someone. ... The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? ...
Violence is the universal element in A Clockwork Orange. ... There is not just one function of violence in our lives, just as there is more than one function of violence in A Clockwork Orange. ... Clearly A Clockwork Orange, in comparison to violence of the present day, may be seen as harsh. ... Everything that happens in A Clockwork Orange happens everyday in our society. ... That is what A Clockwork Orange does and why it is perceived as so violent. ...
"A Clockwork Orange" is an anti-utopian novel, describing an imminent future in a stately supervised country. ... "A Clockwork Orange" confronts us with an anonymous, totalitarian country, as well as in "1984". ... But which warning does "A Clockwork Orange" imply? ... Firstly, "A Clockwork Orange" includes a warning against totalitarian state forms. ... In "A Clockwork Orange" the people feels threatened by growing criminality and for that reason elects an authoritarian party. ...
The novels, A Clockwork Orange and 1984 both represent a future dystopia. ... Irony and betrayal are devices used in both, 1984 and A Clockwork Orange. ... In A Clockwork Orange, the Ludvico Technique is used. ... This is similar to the Ludvico method in A Clockwork Orange. ... A Clockwork Orange also includes a warning against a totalitarian state. ...
He will be best remembered by his eighth novella, A Clockwork Orange. ... Burgess also plays with puns throughout A Clockwork Orange in order to add humor to serious situations and dialogues. ... The most principle theme of A Clockwork Orange involves the freedom of a man to choose between good and evil. ... Another very important theme in A Clockwork Orange is that of youth vs. old age. ... That is something that not many writers are able to do, which is why A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books. ...
- the opening line of Anthony Burgess" A Clockwork Orange, being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven. ... Burgess skilfully introduces us to his futuristic slang, or nadsat, making A Clockwork Orange valuable not only for the questions it raises, but also for its creative and experimental use of the English language in which we see hints of Russian. ...
Classical Conditioning in "A Clockwork Orange" The movie "A Clockwork Orange" is often described as one of the most disturbing films ever made. My question is what really disturbs them so much about this film, Is it the gratuitous sex and violence transparent throughout most of the film? Or is it...
An orange is ripe or not. ... There is a great use of orange and red in the set, perhaps used to represent the orange which can not be fixed. ... The title has two primary meanings: first, the basic meaning of the Cockney expression (not an example of rhyming slang, incidentally) "as queer as a clockwork orange", something that on the surface was normal, but inside was artificial and unnatural. ... This particular clockwork orange is human on the surface, but inside is no such thing. ... An orange cannot be "repaired!" ...
When Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange, John Anthony Burgess Wilson created his own world set in London during a future time when gangs and violence are rampant on the streets, "which is his own particular vision of horrors yet to come." ... This particular brand of literature stressed the overly pessimistic view of human nature and featured, as was presented in A Clockwork Orange, violence as well as the dark areas of human behavior and society. ...
