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Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is one of the most acclaimed yet controversial movies ever made. Here's how Alex DeLarge's story was adapted.
Hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made while also standing out as one of the most controversially violent movies ever made , Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange still has the ability to shock half a century after it hit theaters (in a select few countries, as it was banned in a lot of places).
Malcolm McDowell’s chilling portrayal of Alex DeLarge — technically the “protagonist,” but a pretty deplorable, evil guy — has inspired some of the greatest villain performances of all time, like Heath Ledger’s Joker . Here are 10 fascinating details from the making of A Clockwork Orange .
Before Kubrick decided to adapt A Clockwork Orange into a film, a number of filmmakers tried to get adaptations off the ground. One version was intended as a vehicle for the Rolling Stones , in which the band would’ve played Alex and his droogs.
David Hemmings was set to play Alex in a film version written by Terry Southern, while Oliver Reed was set to play Alex in a film directed by Ken Russell.
The original costume for Alex DeLarge didn’t involve a jockstrap over his pants. This element came when Malcolm McDowell showed up to a costume fitting after a cricket game and Stanley Kubrick liked the look of his cricket gear.
When Kubrick told him to incorporate his cricket gear into the costume , McDowell began by putting the jockstrap under his pants, but the director told him to wear it over his pants instead.
Prior to Malcolm McDowell’s now-iconic casting in the role of Alex DeLarge, the role was offered to Tim Curry and Jeremy Irons , who both turned it down.
McDowell was 27 years old during the shoot. Michael Tarn, who played Pete, was the only droog actor who was still a teenager, at the age of 19.
Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange right after shooting 2001: A Space Odyssey , with some critics noting that the director moved onto a low-budget, small-scale production as a refresher after the big-budget, epic-scale production of 2001 .
Whereas the 2001 shoot took up entire studios with its gigantic sets and involved a huge number of VFX shots , the shoot for A Clockwork Orange utilized real locations and low-rent filmmaking techniques, like using a Lowell Kit, a favorite among film students, to light the movie.
One of the most memorable, and disturbing, scenes in A Clockwork Orange sees Alex singing “Singin’ in the Rain” while he and his droogs terrorize the writer and his wife. The song wasn’t originally scripted. On the set, Stanley Kubrick found the scene to be too conventional and asked Malcolm McDowell to spruce it up with some improv .
McDowell started singing the song and Kubrick liked it so much that he instantly got on the phone to secure the rights to use it. Gene Kelly would later tell McDowell at a party that he was very upset with how his song had been used in A Clockwork Orange .
With its release date arriving slightly over a year after shooting began, Kubrick shot and edited A Clockwork Orange faster than any other movie in his career. His first cut of the movie clocked in at almost four hours in length.
After hiring a handful of assistant editors, Kubrick managed to cut the movie down to the final 136 minutes. The director then instructed his assistant to destroy all the unused footage from the production.
Prior to shooting the scene in which he had to carry the wheelchair up the stairs, bodybuilder David Prowse (who went on to play the physical presence, but not the voice, of Darth Vader ) asked Stanley Kubrick to limit his number of takes, because the wheelchair was heavy.
Crew members who overheard this request went into a stunned silence, worried that Kubrick would explode, but the director just chuckled and promised Prowse he would do his best. In the end, Kubrick nailed the scene in six takes, which is shockingly low for the infamous perfectionist.
The graphic threesome scene in A Clockwork Orange is sped up like a Benny Hill skit, which Kubrick used as a satirical counterpoint to the clichéd use of slow-motion in sex scenes.
According to Malcolm McDowell, this scene was filmed in one continuous 28-minute long take. He ad-libbed inviting the girls back into bed for a second encounter.
The man administering the eye drops during the Ludovico Technique scene was a real doctor, because Malcolm McDowell faced the possibility of real damage to his eyes while he was shooting the scene.
His eyes were anesthetized to allow Kubrick to shoot his standard dozens of takes without McDowell feeling excruciating pain. However, the actor’s cornea did get scratched by the metal arms prying his eyelids open.
The controversial nature of A Clockwork Orange got it banned by the governments of China and Ireland. It was banned in Brazil until a version with censored nudity was made six years later. The movie was also banned in the UK, but not by the government; it was banned at Kubrick’s request .
After Kubrick heard about two men in Lancashire who raped a Dutch girl while singing “Singin’ in the Rain” and a 16-year-old boy who beat up a younger child while dressed as Alex DeLarge, he made the moral decision to ban the movie . It wasn’t available in the UK until Kubrick’s death.
Ben Sherlock is a writer, comedian, independent filmmaker, and Burt Reynolds enthusiast. He writes lists for Screen Rant and features and reviews for Game Rant. He's currently in pre-production on his first feature (and has been for a while, because filmmaking is expensive). You can catch him performing standup at odd pubs around the UK that will give him stage time. Previously, he wrote for Taste of Cinema, Comic Book Resources, and BabbleTop.

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Is the Rape Scene in "A Clockwork Orange" a Rape Scene?
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I don't think it is. It's a very powerful scene, but there's no rape going on. If anything, it's a torture scene. Alex and his droogs are torturing the author and his wife by holding the former down while the latter's clothes are being cut to pieces, all while Mr. DeLarge sings an innocent song that can never be that again for them (or anyone post-1971). We never see the rape. We never, ever see the rape. We see the torturous before and the shell-shocked after, but Kubrick never shows the wife being raped. Yet people always point out the scene as one of rape . Such is the power of cinema, I suppose.
The funny thing is that there two other actual rape scenes that occur in the movie that are forgotten about. In the theater, the rival gang aren't full on raping the woman yet but are in full tilt sexual assault. In one of the films Alex has to watch, a woman is gang raped.
But the scene that is remembered is much more psychologically powerful. It's like people remembering seeing the knife go into Janet Leigh in Psycho but it never does.
Holy crap, you're right about that. I think its because it's a frame within a frame (a theater within a theater) but I think the first one is much more shocking because, as Alex would say, "It's funny how the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
this point is hammered in even further, when you consider that right after raping that poor woman in her home, alex picks up two chicks at the record store the next day and bangs their brains out as well. he was really driven by the VIOLENCE not the desire to make sex.
I think it's supposed to be an implied rape scene. The way he cut away from the scene leaves you to think that much went on between the cut of the two scenes.
This, however, doesn't explain why there's the other scenes in the movie that in fact show rape, without any allusions or implications.
I think you can boil this down to one of those random scenes in a Kubrick movie, that he left for the audience to interpret on their own. If you saw it as rape, then that became a defining factor for how you saw the rest of the movie. If you didn't see rape, and saw it how you said you kinda saw it, then your experience with the movie could be very different.
This is actually quite enough to be considered rape: according to webster "unlawful sexual activity and usually [italics mine] sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent
I remember hearing in an interview Kubrick said he always thought he went a bit too far with the violence in A Clockwork Orange.
Well, Alex does call it "ultraviolence" so it'd be understandable if Kubrick felt he went too far.
I think you have far too narrow a definition of rape to have a constructive conversation.
according to webster "unlawful sexual activity and usually [italics mine] sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent"
The best and most exploratory sorts of discussions happen with opposing views or different definitions. Those discussions are also always the more heated. I'm willing to discuss about the scene and the meaning of rape, incendiary as it might get, if you wanna talk.
In the spaghetti and wine scene, doesn't the writer mention his wife was very badly, or brutally raped?
Yeah. I'm not saying that she wasn't raped. I'm saying that Kubrick didn't show it. He showed everything up until it happened, and he did such a great job that people think they saw rape.

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The Insane Amount Of Cut Footage We'll Never See In A Clockwork Orange

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The Insane Amount Of Cut Footage We'll Never See In A Clockwork Orange

By Shane O'Neill / Dec. 29, 2020 4:01 pm EDT
Based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel of the same title, Stanley Kubrick 's A Clockwork Orange is a highly influential yet infamous piece of cinema, and not for any lack of trying. This story of a criminally deranged youth named Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), who runs roughshod all over Britain with his gang of thugs, isn't for the faint of heart. Nevertheless, thanks to Kubrick's flair for visually stimulating moments and desire to pull off the perfect scene every time, this morally depraved narrative became a masterclass in perfectionist filmmaking — even if achieving such a status meant enduring some insanely long days on set.
Across his over four-decade-long career, Kubrick quickly built himself a reputation as a stern filmmaker with no quarrels about putting his cast and crew through the wringer in pursuit of the best product possible. Look no further than his borderline abusive treatment of actress Shelley Duvall during the filming of The Shining for proof of his intense style (via Rolling Stone ), which surely left its mark on A Clockwork Orange as well. For example, as revealed shortly after filming wrapped up, the team behind the production shot an insane amount of footage, more so than could ever be used in a mainstream big-screen production.
Long before digital took over and became the overwhelming standard in Hollywood, directors had to rely on reels of physical film to shoot their projects and distribute them around the globe. Shot in 1970, A Clockwork Orange is a product of this bygone era, and over the course of the movie's production, Kubrick and his team weren't conservative of their resources by any means. The progress report from the final call sheet for the movie tallied 39,880 feet of film was wasted, 377,090 feet was exposed, and 13,120 feet remained as short ends; in total, 452,960 feet of film (about 85 miles) was used to make A Clockwork Orange .
As deduced by Redditor u/PoorFilmSchoolAlum , "You get roughly 10 mins of footage out of 1,000 feet of 35mm film at 24 fps. So that comes out to about 75 hours of footage." Others pointed out that it's probably more like 83 to 90 hours of footage captured. U/PoorFilmSchoolAlum also added that for a two-and-a-half-hour film ( A Clockwork Orange comes in at two hours and 17 minutes), that results in a roughly one-to-30 ratio of film used to film shot. Another Redditor noted that " A Clockwork Orange had a shooting ratio slightly under 37:1."
Given that the original cut of Kubrick's classic only occupies 137 minutes from start to finish, there's a huge amount of additional scenes, unused takes, and bloopers that the general public will sadly never have the chance to witness. As it is, 35mm degrades within a few yea
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