A CLOCKWORK ORANGE film analysis - Alex and Beethoven - by Rob Ager

Stanley Kubrick encoded a theme in A Clockwork Orange, which involves a cross identity between Alex and Beethoven. This video explains the evidence in support of the theme. To learn more about the hidden narrative of A Clockwork Orange and the work of Stanley Kubrick, see my other videos or visit http://www.collativelearning.com.

Written and narrated by Rob Ager

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• clockwork
• orange
• stanley
• kubrick
• alex
• and
• beethoven
• rob
• ager
• film
• analysis

[xXmusicXboyXx]

how do you pronouce your last name?

[robag88]

@xXmusicXboyXx It rhymes with lazer and you don't pronounce the G like J.

[simplelife88393]

What's your favourite film, robag88?

[robag88]

@simplelife88393 Too difficult to pick one, but my faves are mostly Kubrick, Lynch and Hitchcock.

[TheJabberwock]

not only is it sung during a rape scene, but it's also sang in a highly annoying fashion by the big droog...I forget his name. Maybe those songs mirror each other the way Alex and the writer mimic each other. After all Alex would want revenge on his parents th

[robag88]

@TheJabberwock That stuff also ties in with Beethoven's 9th. We hear a distorted version of it when Alex is being driven to suicide. The European Union adopted a variation on the 9th as its anthem in the same year ACO was released - and the Nazi's loved Beethoven. Its a major theme of the film.

[robag88]

@AgrippasNotebook3336 This year will see much more frequent postings. The next couple of vids will be up within weeks

[proman84]

I don't really see how it is implied that Alex is Beethoven. On the contrary, it seems that Alex wants to be like him but isn't. That's the whole point. He's just a poser.

[SuperRichard2012]

Quite Uncanny!!!

[AndyHumphreys91]

Anybody else notice that he had a different bedsheet in the morning?

[ChuckieGHardcoreMC]

I just realised that Kubrick is way 2deep4me. I like his films but I didn't know there was so much to it

[50crowley]

@FilmsFromACynic I was wondering that myself, so I'm not exactly sure, but I think you've got it right. They are both composers but they use different mediums.

[xXmusicXboyXx]

@robag88 well, i hate the same name spelling and i was wondering how you pronounce it

[90zlaya]

"A Clockwork Orange" is Stanley Kubrick's ninth full length movie.

[FilmsFromACynic]

This may sound completely obvious, but why exactly is Kubrick comparing Alex to Beethoven? What is this saying? Beethoven makes music, Alex makes mayhem?