Irony

Not only that but there were a buncha copycat crimes throughout England after the film came out that were blamed on CO & Kubrick didnt want that burden on his shoulders.

wild as fuck

His movie kind of predicted that with the ending and the anti-government people being in turn a violent gang. I mean they thought his movie was promoting fascism when it was in reality anti-fascist, and in turn they... censor his movie...

G-Raw. That's--the story I've heard many times, with the Scotland yard link. And--Copy-Cat lunatics everywhere else.

You absolutly right

Forgettable to me.

Hugh Jones romper stomper

Nor will ever forget - like any other Great Movie !

I just read the book and then watched the movie and now I can’t stop thinking of it, specially the film with Stanley Kubrick’s cinematography SUCH A MASTERPIECE. I still wish Stanley Kubrick would’ve include the final chapter that was excluded in the book in American. Overall this movie is still perfect masterpiece.

The best part was the milk-bottle, but Alex took a Dim view of it.

Tom Evans hah, nice one.

Death!!!

empire What's ironic about this is that Kubrick himself totally regretted how violent he made the film. He didn't enjoy the acts of violence, he wanted to explore them

Wayne Rocha I'd argue that's most human beings :-) Although he wasn't by any accounts a violent person, thankfully. That's what great art's for.

He was so sexy in that movie. He's still good looking.

I don't care what anyone says, no matter how f'd up Caligula was, it was a masterpiece

Well, what's so fucked up about CALIGULA? He was great there and that's what made this movie even better.

Check out his performance on Lexx(tv show). So much fun.

@@MyLessonsTV Lexx was a crazy fun sci fi collaboration from Germany & Canada i believe, I've just started a rewatch & while the effects are obviously dated its still a fun watch.....i hope in this time of remakes, prequels & sequels Lexx gets left alone, there's no way in todays climate that they could do it justice

@@woodrude78 I whole-heartedly agree.

He hadn't worn too well though, and that was 2011.

@@MrDaiseymay Malcolm McDowell is the most beautiful man on earth.

Great news!

I think I heard somewhere that the leer he gives the audience at the beginning was influenced by the Norman Bates leer

I think I heard that too.

Mitchell Leary i dont remember hearing it. But i've certainly read it ...... Somewhere ortuther... an quite recently as it happens

Justice237 - That makes sense, Stanley or Malcolm probably did lift that with the slow pull-away.

well, no e on Hannibal, though that is beside the point. Malcolm McDowell was in this movie well before Silence of the Lambs ever came to be... so shouldnt it be "Anthony Hopkins would make a good Alex"??

...very annoying how the interviewer dead named Wendy Carlos to show how 'smart he is' while also mispronouncing Moog...

He was the monster in the "Horror of Frankenstein" from 1970

RIP

Yup, all 6'6" of him.

@@graemefarquharson465 Yep. Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell too.

He also stared in The Champions and Callan .

I love this

He hated you.

I agree. It's not supposed to be glossed over or glamorous . If art is a reflection of actual life, then violence in movies shouldn't be made to look cool or rewarding.

Thanks for your enriching comment. I read the book,saw the film 46 years ago etc. I like your idea

Very well said

Violence isn't just gore though. As modern horror seems to think Violence is the way its handled. A man getting torn apart in graphic detail might get a decent rating. A young 7 year old getting yelled at and told "come here you little *sl* and cuts away before he reaches her is more a rating in contrast. Violence is always horrific. It's how you cut it and handle it maturely. Sorry for the gloves off imagery but it's true. Watching a guy get evicerated and a young girl beaten is polar opposite in film but isn't in life. I find violent imagery works best when implied.

Why I don't watch Quentin Tarantino movies. When asked why his movies were so violent Tarantino said "because people like it".

Best dad ever!

I question that decision, too.

Dads make mistakes....cut him a break mate

@@andysmith8890 ...It's not like it ruined my innocence or anything like that...it just seemed a bit bizzare to intentionally take a little kid to that particular movie back then

Thats nothing mate, my dad, a truck driver now retired, used to let me watch Shogun Assasain when I was about 4. Plus I normally had a can of skol in my hand.

Oh, the one he wears at the record store? Yeah! That would have been epic. www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia2.fdncms.com%2Fmemphisflyer%2Fimager%2Fu%2Fslideshow%2F5911581%2Fclockworkdix.gif&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memphisflyer.com%2FFilmTVEtcBlog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F04%2F01%2Fnever-seen-it-watching-a-clockwork-orange-with-memphis-flyer-editor-bruce-vanwyngarden&docid=SOiT5OisDIs-KM&tbnid=XKste1SFzurqvM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi3kqaQp7blAhWIxFkKHQuCDWgQMwhPKBAwEA..i&w=619&h=301&bih=1297&biw=2560&q=malcolm%20mcdowell%20clockwork%20orange%20record%20store%20scene&ved=0ahUKEwi3kqaQp7blAhWIxFkKHQuCDWgQMwhPKBAwEA&iact=mrc&uact=8 (in the book those two girls are like 11 and 12 years old - Alex is 15 I believe)

I love that jacket but I don't think it was a pimp coat

I remember seeing him in that suit and I'm thinking, "Did he just raid Willy Wonka's closet?!"

@@melissacooper4282 Clockwork Orange predates Wonka!

@@superamanda the book was in 64. The movie released the same year of 71 as clockwork in fact it released about 5 months before clockwork. The original good one not the shitty remake. So yes even I thought of willy wonka in the record store.

Kyle Campbell Malcolm Mcdowell was the best person to play Alexandre Delarge. Heath Ledger was, is and will always be the best joker. 🙏🏻

Sorry mate Jack Nicholson as Joker was better than Heath Ledger.

Actually, Heath talked with Jaz Coleman, frontman for Killing Joke, who was the inspiration for Alan Moore's Joker. YES, that is the connection with the title of the comic. Band --> Comic --> Ledger.

@@cissyh.5385 no

Nigel McKenna Sorry mate no he wasn’t

It's because people are confused, and most likely dumb. They don't know what the movie is saying lol

@@isaiahgonzales9989 Dumb is a bit harsh. Ignorant is the better term. Completely ignorant of what film as a art form can be. Something even the so called greatest film critic of all time Roger Ebert didn't remotely understand until Gene Siskell's passing back in 2003.

...and , as well pointed out in another comment here...the movie shows acts of violence for what they truely are...sickening to the stomach to watch, which is to say, the movie does not glorify violence, it shows how awful it is to the victims

@@taliamason7986 Stupidity and ignorance go hand in hand

Me too!😄

May he rest in peace with his uzie and chains by his side.

Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you! I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime. I'm not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it.

F

@@jefftateii9403 Ill scrap anytime you say.

lance uppercut gamebred

Agree. Perfect for clockwork orange. He has that menacing quality!

Thats cz hes from Leeds

That would be awesome!!

@@mdh6977 To me it's a no-brainer, but--- who knows why not? Maybe McDowell wants way too much money....

Have you tried to listen to it on audiobook? You can’t understand what they’re saying at all. 🤣

Tom Hollander does a fantastic job voice acting the original Burgess novel. It’s not a simple feat, if you’ve read the book. He even sounds a bit like Malcom. “What’s it going to be then, eh?” It’s a literary masterpiece and makes more sense to me than Shakespeare when I first read it.

TrippyTube true man, i used to be a gamer now i just watch movies

2001, A Clockwork Orange and Blade Runner. That's all you need.

TrippyTube Yeaaaaa man 😂

Mine are "2001", CO, "Dark Star", "The Man Who fell to Earth", "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "The Tenant", "Stalker", "Brazil", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "Beyond the Black Rainbow". I think that comes pretty close to a list of the best films ever made.

TrippyTube and big black swinging cocks and tits

Just when a close-up of his face was imminent, they ended the excerpt.

The film is based on a fictitious book. You are there for calling a figment of someone's imagination a "cunt".

Luke Cops he was tho, you can call characters cunts based on their actions you know you dumbass

Luke Cops you must be a complete spastic

Yes, and she repeatedly refers to Malcolm's character as "Alex". I remember his name as "Alec". I think Malcolm was being too polite to correct her.

Holy shit! Yeah he is! My two favorite films together. Taxi Driver and A Clockwork Orange

Lol

+Gwasgray Ha! You're right!

Taxi Orange! XD

But Malcolm looks like Mike Travis!

ME brothers.

That’s absolutely brilliant directing! A typical old style Dubliner with old old sailor English !!!

James Earl Jones too. Those two actual did a bit spoofing on their magnificent voices.

RIP

When he mentioned James masons name in reference to lolita, he actually sounded like James mason.

I agree with both of you! A few good voices are amazing forever! I feel lucky just to hear it.

you are forgetting about metalheads who aren't your dumb ass, shut the fuck up.

sebastien berube they aren't metal

@calabiyou Haha, good call.

afterwards it was taken on laserdisc!

I own the DVD on VHS!

Cut him some slack he’s old

@@OpticalHaze And then sent out on betamax.

or he could have been saying "blu-ray and DVD" but he mumbled his words

lol 😁😁😁😁😁

No time for that missus, just came to read the meter.

In this case the teleprompter.

Cigarettes & Alcohol hahaha "My mind is a blank, now I will smash you"

She's hot, but I'd prefer it to be consensual, unlike Alex.

So many Modern teens are completely uncaring and psychotic.

Essentially, we've got there

It's not really "modern" it's the way it's always been.

What's it like to be 25? - your old pal, Ludwig van

He is a savage in real life too 😂🦭

Can't improve on perfection

That's called character my dear boy.

Malcom looks his age now, but he has looked this way for the past 25 years. He looked really old when he was in his 40s and 50s

And let's face it. Today, he wouldn't fool any audiences watching A Clockwork Orange for the first time. He was so obviously a 28 year old playing a teenager. It's more likely to show up now in the remastered and cleaned up film. But Malcolm McDowell did it brilliantly.

@@zemxxi2765 he looked young to me

@@chopboxing6197 Well, 28 is still young, but the character was supposed to be about 15 or 16. We just pretend not to notice because we're used to what they call "Dawson casting".

I know people in their 40s that are less mentally sharp and lively than he is

You're right, as serious interviewers they are both a waste of space.

***** the movie is about the illusion of control the government believes they have over the people, that thinks it can be in complete scientific control, with their monstrous experiments, which fail horribly. the human consciousness, no matter how wretched, can't be controlled or changed by force, whether righteous or malicious. nobody can be forced to change, you have to want it badly enough, but some minds are too far gone to be affected. in other words, alex was just too crazy. he enjoyed it too much to quit.

A sociopath is the same as a psychopath.

I think the film is about hypocrisy, where every single character is defined by the hypcrisy to believe they're any better than Alex and that there's any need to cure him at all. For Kubrick, we're all just equally rotten and evil, only some of are hypocrites for thinking there would be any good in us at all. Hence, there's not a single character in the entire film that's actually likable, to show that we all have "Little Alexes" inside of us and that trying to remove him from inside of us would be worse than anything Alex has ever done. Which is all very unlike Burgess's book, which is not about hypocrisy but about free will and that we all have the potential to good inside us, even somebody like Alex. In the book, Alex is the only character who's evil, he's only 15 when they're putting him in jail, and in the final chapter, he simply grows up and out of his runaraound droog days. Kubrick has made him almost twice as old (McDowell was almost 30 when he played him, which was deliberate on Kubrick's casting choice) to show it's not some issue of growing up, refused to film the final chapter even though Burgess insisted he should, and he made it so we don't see a single likable character in the entire film.

Yes, on the ever-present hypocrisy front, but, Kubrick still leaves us options. Choose one: a) we are all equally worthless, b) we are all equal now.

tlatosmd well said, and for me, Alex is the most likeable of them all, and I root for him throughout the movie

So do I, I remember after the seeing the film people were dressing up in the same gear and forming little crews. I found it exciting yet very disturbing beating the old paddy up, was there a rape scene in it? I'm old me memories shot. I come from an era where you needed a lonsdale belt to get into a club not a ticket lol but there two things that were unconprehendable beating up old duffers up and rape. Groundbreaking film for sure I must watch it again.

It was rated X when it first came out in the US.

@@gj8683 Yeah. I thiik youre rght: it was X.

Yoda I thought you were 900

@@joeytaylor1021 right? yea, im 475 and i love it. what the hell is the point of a comment like that?

Malcolm mcdowell had that menacing look about him.

You were lucky. The next year Kubrick wouldn't allow it in his adopted country from the next year until his death. The discussions with the police have never been confirmed and Kubrick never discussed it. A rape and a severe assault certainly had copycat elements from the film.

the paper back version is shorter,so is the film,the original hardback continues after his hospital visit at the end,a lot of people haven't read the full version,i read it when i was 15,in the local library,ended up stealing it

The paper back copy I own has the last chapter.

Pete H. Could have been a bad trip to your bro, don’t you think?

Leonard Shelby yes, me too

so so so what

malcolm starred in the music video for snuff by slipknot

+dragosh007 hahah

He is hip, the interviewers are as square and conservative as fcuk

@Marrowbones Limited time, short interview

I think he’s hot in the film too thought it was just me being weird 😂😂

He was 27 years and was meant to be a schoolboy

And now :)

One of the few guys I’d go bi for

he's still cute

Wow what a hero...

Kubrick was a masterful Director, a true artist thru an thru.

That's fucked up lol

Let’s get her boys!

Forget Caligula, he hates it. I love it.