An examination of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

[donniedarkodevotte]

Thank you for posting this. I just watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time last night, so I'm looking for everything I can on the subject.

[egyptianminor]

Check out Mcdowell's total 1972 Ziggy Stardust/Glam hairdoo

[TheShakiebreaks]

@egyptianminor Yeah proper 70'S

[M4hB]

@jimsty19889507 Yah but he hasn't been playing great roles..

[Nedspodos]

This if beyond FUCKING AWESOME!

[Nedspodos]

@jimsty19889507 yep, he IS the Clockwork Orange.

[mariogalunic]

@BootDotBoo Are you kidding me? No one.. And I mean no one could remake a stanley kubrick film.

[oL1deLANGE]

@mariogalunic +1

[pendragonU]

Look like Malcolm was trying not to bite his ex-master hand or allow his ass left hanging, on not blowing the chance to get to work with him again?

[punktechnoluver7]

<3

[HungerCultFilms]

Great upload!

[themaniacguy]

pause at 1:13 alex looks like the scary maze game!

[CriticallyPropelled]

The interviewer sounds so like the TV man in 2001 who interviews HAL and the astronauts :)

[PorroFirst]

Clockwork Orange is my favorite film.. or would be, if it wasn't for 2001. Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director.

[EpicWinningFaceGirl]

His hair looks somewhat like Christopher Drew's from Never Shout Never. lol. He seems like a very well thought out person. But If I ever met him, I would be a little intimidated by him, since he played such an intense/scary character in A Clockwork Orange... Yet he seems like such a gentlemen.

[Econ1260MetZRoberto]

@jimsty19889507 He has the same menacing presence as Ledger did in the dark knight, pause at the beginning and look at that picture of Alex staring at the camera: exactly like the Joker when he is in prison

[xevanescencex4evax]

0:50 I have a poster of the photo (:

[BBBananas1120]

This isn't an examination of the film, it's an examination of the director/producer, and the title.

[cherdoful]

when did this TV Special aired?

[lpmqtp2010]

Anakin Skywalker look.

[YaeL19LevY]

i feel like i'm aboutto choke from all this smoke.. wtf!?!

[RaiderInNY]

Smoking on TV... the good ole' days.

[Thenyjets48]

rockin the cig!!!

[nickstoli]

This is awesome -- thanks for posting! What is this show?

[FuckOfAShit]

Malcolm's up his arse. Still is. His hair here would look good on a woman.

[NATIONALCOMMUNISM666]

@FuckOfAShit

it look good on A male also.

[Pezreh]

@FuckOfAShit You're so jealous

[CaptCamping]

The times you can smoke in the studio LOL

[burningburney94]

I went as Alex for Halloween

[nicolexamstutz]

@burningburney94 So did I! But it was a female version, seeing as I'm a girl.

[burningburney94]

@nicolexamstutz alright! cyber high five!!

[tathagata40]

Is there any hope society at large might ever seek itself in this level of intelligence again?

[willscomix]

I seriously wish that Malcom Mcdowell would do an audiobook of the book, with that yorkshire accent...

[KNSweetness]

if only i was malcolm's age in that time.. come on, that man is a genius to his acting even when he plays a complete sick messed up character, he has an irrestible voice that's easily recongizable, the best personality, and a absolutely gorgeous young man! :( *sigh*

[tony0000]

Never knew Burgess had written a screenplay which was not used . . . .

[AuroraGreenleaf]

Amazing to see such casual smoking on television. So 1970s! (Glad that habit died out). Really interesting to hear Malcolm McDowell praising Kubrick. I did not know he was so flexible as a director.

[Mrcomentz]

@AuroraGreenleaf and in the end of 80's in a David Letterman interview, Hunter S Thompson did too. You can see him smoking lol

[Obelisk94]

Does anyone know how old Malcolm McDowell is in this video!?

[ReggieMental]

@Obelisk94 Around 28.

[1shishin]

4:56 Doing interviews like a Boss!

[TheeOneWhoTalks]

Wow he is a bad ass, just look at him with the cigarette and the way he leans back so relaxed. How old was he back then?

[wmdgrn]

In my defense, back in the "old days* there was not a lot of prerelease hype on movies, just a few reviews to go on, and I knew it would be a great movie. I never knew about the rape scenes until we were there and by then, to tell you the truth, my date could have left and I was so enthralled by this movie I probably would not have noticed. The movie was disturbing and hit you viscerally, and was unlike anything I had seen before.

[MegaMaxPax]

his performance will always haunt me...he should have won an oscar for this role because it was SERIOUSLY a scary character...

[halfNERD17]

spoiler alert up the ass

[frickadele]

McDowell said that Kubrick wasn't difficult to work with.

McDowell was either lying, for career reasons, fear, or...

McDowell was (but hopfuly now isn't) the type of guy who

only cared how someone treated him.

[wardka]

@frickadele McDowell is still saying in a more recent YouTube interview (2008 or so) that Kubrick was great to work with. Why would he continue to say that after the man's death?

[wmdgrn]

I took a girl for our first date to see clockwork upon it's release. There was no second date. I fell infatuated with the movie which was totally different and new, and made me a Kubrick fan forever.

[sssgv]

@wmdgrn How stupid are you? watching the movie on a date? the only worst thing you could have done is watching it with your mom?

[pein05]

@sssgv

I know girls that like that movie as much as i do, so what's your point?

[sssgv]

@pein05 Maybe but the rape scenes must be really awkward

[86Volker]

This movie is outstanding, awesome,great i love it!

[banacek8675]

Pretty slick how Malcolm McDowell seized the opportunity to promote himself when asked about Kubrick. He basically relates to the audience that it was HIS idea for the singing in the rain scene. How true that is is anybody's guess. Pretty slick indeed.

[ninyae]

Wow! To hear the origin of the term after all these years.

[clancy76]

Ewan Mcgregor is a dimestore version of Malcolm.

[Donnerstag]

Why was he beat them? I never understand it. I never did

[AlekDeLethe]

What the deuce! He who is in the middle has no part is this conversation galante.

[haribo687]

It must have irked Brugess to have to sit there and listen to them talking about Kubrick as if he was some kind of artistic god

[wownov83]

@haribo687 How is Kubrick not an artistic god?

[clockworkscott]

@wownov83 i don't think any filmmaker even comes close to kubrick in terms of producing films of depth. in film, he is definitely god.

[gingowitch]

circumcision is way worse than this stuff.

[BooDotBoo]

I swear I was born too late. All these guys I like are all old enough to be my father/grandfather. Not fair.

He is gorgeous, as is his voice.

[lilboomrang]

@BooDotBoo he's old enough too be my grandfather, too, but he's actually still pretty attractive as far as much older men go.

[BooDotBoo]

@lilboomrang Yes, he is. I caught him recently on an episode of Psych. Never watched the show before, but Malcolm was awesome in it.

[lilboomrang]

@BooDotBoo he's also on the show "franklin and bash." the show is pretty bad but he's good in it. he's great in everything.

[BooDotBoo]

@lilboomrang I've heard of that show, but never watched because it didn't seem too interesting. I'll have to check it out since he's in it.

[ChrisYonts]

@BooDotBoo STFU.

[ChrisYonts]

4:26 Mr. McDowell



[Rachulie]

@BooDotBoo what's the problem with that? mwahahhaa

[BooDotBoo]

@Rachulie No problem at all. But seeing as all of these guys are taken, well, it would have been great if I'd been around before they found their wives.

[StrawberryJungle]

@BooDotBoo I agree, I'm in the same position.

[NormanBatesRocks911]

@BooDotBoo same here, 14 years old and im screwed with the dating scene

[nicolexamstutz]

@BooDotBoo I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. I always swoon over young Malcolm McDowell. I get sad when I see him all grown up and old. :c

[AccurateMistake]

@BooDotBoo

I'm 15...I wasn't even born yet when ACO came out...

Me when I came to the realization that Malcolm Mcdowell was super cute in ACO, but even then was old enough to be my father:

"....Well, fuck."

[65g4]

Me 2 I should have been a baby bomber

[Dataceruption]

@65g4 thats boomer 

[NinjaOutfitInTheWash]

@BooDotBoo Look up Evan Peters. He's like a younger version of Malcolm.

[BooDotBoo]

@NinjaOutfitInTheWash Thank you for telling me. He is quite the cutie.

[NinjaOutfitInTheWash]

@BooDotBoo You're welcome! I just recently discovered him myself and now I can't get enough of him. If they are ever to make a remake of a clockwork orange (which they shouldn't do) he would be perfect.

[BooDotBoo]

@NinjaOutfitInTheWash I hope they never make a remake (especially since most remakes these days are horrible), but if they do, I agree and think he'd fit quite nicely.

[jim0watkins]

they have such a pretentious way of smoking lol

[kubrox91]

malcolm mcdowell looks a lot like one of my friends i grew up with.

[Buttons4me2010]

I know Alex is a really evil guy, but at certain times in the film and even here in this interview, I think Malcolm looks like a really friendly, kindhearted guy. Some actors actually look evil in their expressions in films, and Malcolm did, but there was times when he just looked the complete opposite.

He's so cute! I love him!

[RealRacer69]

@Buttons4me2010 That was intentionaly done by Kubrick. He's questioning (amongst many other things) the true root of evil. Is Alex really evil or is he just a victim of his cirumstance. There are many obvious hints in the film to Alex having been sexually abused. I think Kubrick want to make you sympathise with Alex and realise that he too is just another human being.

[Buttons4me2010]

@RealRacer69 I did....I feel uneasy in saying that but I grudgingly felt sorry for him many times.

[immutabledude]

I thought Anthony Burgess said in the afterward of his book that "A Clockwork Orange" was another way of describing the sun...

[pulpfictioninorder]

everytime i hear malcolm's young voice, i just want him to sing the song "singing in the rain" and talk about ultra violence and great bloshy yarblockos

[TheSuperzack666]

lol i dont think i can see young malcom without thinking alex.... i mean ive seen tons of movies hes been in as an older man..... but ive only seen him young in a clockwork orange...weird.....wikipedia time

[merv0]

@Deptstate799 pretty sure that's a swisher sweet

[3200MusicSurfer]

This film is so remarkable and its a shame they dont make movies like clockwork orange nowadays.

[ViewtifulRaoul]

@Deptstate799 Like, have you not watched this movie or something?

[BenjaminEllett]

@Deptstate799 shut up

[EnemaBandit1]

Alex's look at 4:17

[faridjabba]

@EnemaBandit1 GREAT

[GMAlekz]

It's so odd to listen to Malcolm speak English like that. Needs more nadsat.

[rainkunx]

♪da du bi du bi du dubi dubi du♪ 6.28

videa bien hermanito videa bien!

[TheArsenalgooner]

@Deptstate799 Part of the costume! duh!

[rabsmiff]

this historical show needs to be cleaned up digitally and presented for hi-def extras in future blu-rays of A Clockwork Orange.

[0428733]

calling him 'mr. mcdowell' almost seems wrong.

[1308kiss]

k guapo estaba XD

[palpatine17]

@buzzclick500:

Well said sir! That's exactly what the movie is about!!!

[buzzclick500]

The individual does their version of violence, and the government does ITS version of violence. Individuals are curious, and out for a thrill--governments are collective killing machines that hate few things more intensely than they hate people who think and act on their own.

[kolokidi]

i first saw this movie in 1980........to this day this movie is in my top 5......

[tylerf13ful]

@JKreviews umm, probably early 70's

[FernandoLuis191]

Stop moving so much, old man!

[theraveniscool]

Mmmm

[Missjade83xx]

Malcom is hot

[TheNextAvrilLavigne]

@Missjade83xx I wish I was around in the 70s men back then were hot

[buzzclick500]

Irony: writers' wives are some of the most neglected, deprived and frustrated women on earth. A lot of subliminal messages in this film. Several women have commented to me that, "Mrs. Alexander was basically PRAYING for some good hard sex from SOMEBODY--ANYBODY."

[SpikeMichaels]

DARTH VADER is in this movie....

[jagfug]

I had forgotten what a real interview is. Nowadays, talk shows are all "pre-interviewed" and they already know what they're going to be asked and what will be said. So much is gone. :(

[IamAwesomelyRadical]

1983??? Considering it came out in 1971 I felt it was aimed to be set around the early 90s.

[buzzclick500]

@IamAwesomelyRadical : It was set in the year 2010....doo-doo-doo-doo-Doo-do­o-doo-doo-doo..... ;])

[buzzclick500]

First movie I ever ditched detention to watch. ;])

[SpikeMichaels]

@buzzclick500 Sheeuh....I saw this movie in 6th grade, we got stoned before we watched it....it sacred the FUCK OUTTA ME!!!!!

[buzzclick500]

@SpikeMichaels : A good friend(who is now my BEST friend(!)just gave me the 2-disc Special Edition.  ;])

[SpikeMichaels]

@buzzclick500 Sheeuh....I saw this movie in 6th grade, we got stoned before we watched it....it sacred the FUCK OUTTA ME!!!!! Ooops I meant SCARED!!!!!

[buzzclick500]

@SpikeMichaels : I saw this movie for the first time when I was 19--you must be warped for life. Congratulations.  ;])

[TheNextAvrilLavigne]

@buzzclick500 smart move

[MrScottJMiller]

In 1983 there was almost a nuclear war when Russia almost mistook a NATO exercise for an attack. Closer to war than the Cuba missile crisis. A prophecy?

[buzzclick500]

@MrScottJMiller : We were never close to a nuclear exchange--the retailers short-circuited that. Greed has always superceded national and cultural hatred. ;])

[barbielippman]

Damn, he was sooo sexy!!! i love the hair, looks just stunning!!!

[TheNextAvrilLavigne]

@barbielippman I think I just came lolz I'm single and I hate it

[totopatter]

History right there :)

[faridjabba]

very coool interestin

[AGuyInAHat]

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

[DanielTheWalrus]

Clockwork Orange's year is 1993?

[AGuyInAHat]

@DanielTheWalrus No.. try 20 years before that

[BrotherOfBullets]

@DanielTheWalrus 83

[LilBo10]

@DanielTheWalrus no...

[TheLeoneBr]

Awsome.

[qbrikc]

is that to represent a robotic eye or some twisted movie initials?

[rebelxatxheart27]

Malcolm is yummy ;)

[fuckxyeahhh]

If I had a time machine I'd go back and fuck Malcolm McDowell.

Although he looks pretty good nowadays too.

[therearenobloodyname]

ooops, pressed "ENTER" too many times....

[therearenobloodyname]

Malcolm McDowell.... damn was he sexy!!!

I always wondered why knowbody ever sold clocks that looked like oranges? Great marketing, I'd think!

[therearenobloodyname]

Malcolm McDowell.... damn was he sexy!!!

[KellyGreen5555]

Mick Jagger was a contender for the Alex role, but the Stones tour schedule would not allow it.

Whilst I think that Jagger would've been magnificent as the lead droog, Malcolm owns this film...Malcolm is unforgettable as Alex.

[IamAwesomelyRadical]

@KellyGreen5555

Kubrick was NEVER going to use Jagger. Yes Jagger and the Stones were considered, but only for an earlier version that was going to be made by someone else, and nothing to do with Kubrick. It obviously never went anywhere.

[KellyGreen5555]

@IamAwesomelyRadical

Stanley Kubrick WAS interested in casting Mick Jagger for Alex.

[TheNextAvrilLavigne]

@KellyGreen5555 WTF??!!

[RhodesLives]

What year was this interview?71?

[TonyRomeoUSA1]

Well, this movie is lacking Computer Generated Animation, doesn't have any digital editing nor digital soundtrack, and was devoid of Hollywood hyped-stars. That results is : a true work of cinematic art, with great acting and the possibility of living for centuries as a cultural monument. Tell that to Tom Cruise and most American script writers. What an important lesson in film making.

[yfset8]

malcolm is hot.HOT!

[gahivengirl]

malcolm's certainly dressed in the heighth of 70's fashion

[Therealtaxidriver]

Proof lies with the young female neighbor, and the 16mm film she and I were recorded by Kubrick in which is no doubt in some ass kissing Kubrick Museum somewhere in the U.K. Truth is also in my first hand experience as a participant and victim in that one of Kubrick's many rip-offs. I no longer care to discuss the issue here among those who devote too much energy toward the worship of film directors and actors. Thank You.

[Therealtaxidriver]

Malcolm being the typical pompous ass most actors are lied about improvising the "Singing In The Rain" rape scene. The dirty little rotter was shown a 16mm film clip of a couple of children acting out that perversion of the original number and Kubrick then told him "I want you to do the scene just like that". It's wonder why Kubrick parted company with this jerk and never looked back.

[movielover119]

@Therealtaxidriver ...What? Proof.

[clockworktim]

Thank you so much for posting this interivew. I was riveted. My favorite piece of art in all of cinema, this film!

[Marty01Mcfly]

spectacular and extremely ambitious. yes u r correct mr everson

[oasisgirl1978]

omg he's so fuckin cool, sittin there smoking...so hot!

[logmein84]

I see Dr Evil

[oasisgirl1978]

want 2 take him offstage and fuck him ;-)

[captainscizo]

@oasisgirl1978 lol i know right

[Mrsilenciobackgammon]

 This is an incredible piece of footage. I have no idea where you got it, but thanks...

[1987Bateman]

I devour this film and book

[Toberoni]

Smoking  a cigarette during the interview. Ah the 70's...

[BringMeTheSceneKidz]

@Toberoni

As much as i agree with you, charlie sheen's doing it in all his!!!

[presidentillclinton]

@Toberoni watch charlie sheens interview ;)