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Jan 1, 2023 · To conclude: in developing nadsat from English and Russian for A Clockwork Orange, Burgess set out to write a meta-fictional brainwashing primer without inflecting it politically, but placing the novel in the context of contemporary Cold War brainwashing scares and discourses on behavioural conditioning reveals that no such political ...
- Joy Mcentee
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Jan 20, 2012 · ‘It was meant to turn A Clockwork Orange into, among other things, a brainwashing primer. You read the book or see the film, and at the end you should find yourself in possession of a minimal Russian vocabulary — without effort, with surprise. This is the way brainwashing works’.
May 28, 2012 · From 2012: The author reflects on his most famous book, “A Clockwork Orange,” plus free will, the modern state, and the evil of brainwashing.
- Anthony Burgess
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A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess’ best-known novel. It follows Alex, a violent and seemingly irredeemable protagonist who is subjected to a brainwashing experiment at the hands of the State. No longer able to think violent thoughts, he serves as a lesson of the importance of free will. Pros.
- First UK Edition
- Hardcover
- Kubrick Originally Didn't Want to Make The Movie.
- Malcolm Mcdowell Was Kubrick's One and only Choice For Alex.
- Mcdowell Had No Idea Who Kubrick was.
- Kubrick's Screenplay Closely Mirrored The Book.
- The Movie Was Primarily Shot in Existing Locations
- But There Are Also Some Sets.
- McDowell's Love of Cricket Helped Create Alex's Droog Costume.
- Alex's "Singin' in The Rain" Was Improvised.
- A Real Doctor Appears in The Ludovico Technique Scene.
- Mcdowell Was Injured anyway.
The director first encountered Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange when his Dr. Strangelove co-screenwriter Terry Southern gave him a copy on the set of that film. Southern enjoyed the biting black humor of the book, and thought Kubrick should consider adapting it into a movie. Kubrick allegedly didn't like the book upon first reading because...
Prior to Kubrick taking over the adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (Ken Russell and John Schlesinger were among the directors being considered), Mick Jagger was rumored to be up for the role of Alex, with other members of the Rolling Stones potentially playing Alex's droogs. But when Kubrick joined the project, he only wanted one man to play Alex: M...
When offered the part, McDowell mistakenly thought the director was Stanley Kramer, the filmmaker behind movies like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Judgment at Nuremberg. It wasn't until McDowell's friend and If.... director Lindsay Anderson showed him Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odysseythat the actor realized who the director was.
Kubrick eventually warmed up to the book so much that his screenplay was mostly just dialogue and stage directions grafted from the book itself. A few early drafts of the screenplay actually changed the film's title to "The Ludovico Technique," named after the brainwashing experiment that Alex endures, but Kubrick later changed it back to the book'...
Kubrick wanted to prove that he could make a low-budget movie after the expensive 2001, so he sought out existing locations. The only stipulation was that they had to be within driving distance from his house outside London. The most famous location was Alex's apartment block, which was shot at the Thamesmead Housing Estate in Southeast London, a h...
There are only three specific scenes that were built as sets: The Korovo Milk Bar, the prison's check-in area, and the bathroom where Alex takes a bath in the writer's HOME were built in an old factory in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Kubrick loved shooting there because it was the closest location to his house.
Designer Milena Canonero sought to create a skewed near-future society with the costumes for A Clockwork Orange. But Kubrick and Canonero, who would go on to win an Academy Award for costume design on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (plus additional Oscars for Chariots of Fire, Marie Antoinette, and The Grand Budapest Hotel) had trouble pinning down the loo...
McDowell came up with the idea for his character to sing the Gene Kelly classic. Kubrick thought the film's famously brutal scene, in which Alex and his droogs attack the writer and his wife, was playing flat during rehearsal. To adequately convey the violent nature of the scene and the sinister nature of the character, he asked McDowell to do some...
For the scene in which Alex is forced to watch horrific footage as aversion therapy, McDowell's eyes were kept open with antique lid locks used for delicate eye surgeries. The doctor administering eye drops was an actual doctor from Moorfields Eye Hospitalin London. He was supposed to remain offscreen, but Kubrick eventually put him in the scene be...
Though his eyes were anesthetized, McDowell was forced to endure excruciating pain. The eye clamps were only supposed to be used for patients lying down, but Kubrick insisted that the character be sitting up watching footage for his rehabilitation. McDowell actually sliced his cornea during the scene, forcing the legendary perfectionist Kubrick to ...
According to Burgess, the Nadsat language ‘was meant to turn A Clockwork Orange into a brainwashing primer. You should read the book and at the end you should find yourself in possession of a minimal Russian vocabulary — without effort, with surprise’.
Jan 29, 2021 · According to Burgess, the language was intended ‘to turn A Clockwork Orange into a brainwashing primer. You read the book […] and at the end you should find yourself in possession of a minimal Russian vocabulary — without effort, with surprise.’
