We look back at one of Stanley Kubrick’s most celebrated and infamous films, 1971’s classic, A Clockwork Orange…
There's something blackly seductive about Anthony Burgess' 1964 novel, A Clockwork Orange. Its worldview is bleak, the violence abhorrent. And yet, there's something gutsy and organic about Nadsat, the slang-filled language that Burgess created for his futuristic urban gang, and something indelible about his murderous, carnal anti-hero, Alex DeLarge.
And then in 1971, Stanley Kubrick went and made a film of it. Applying his own distinctive visual style to Burgess' future dystopia, Kubrick's movie hit the sensibilities of UK cinema-goers like a sledgehammer. Its design had an immediate impact on contemporary culture, with the central image of a trussed-up Malcolm McDowell, his eyes prised open, one of the most arresting in 20th century cinema.
A simple tale at heart, A Clockwork Orange introduces Alex and his little coterie of droogs, a violently...
There's something blackly seductive about Anthony Burgess' 1964 novel, A Clockwork Orange. Its worldview is bleak, the violence abhorrent. And yet, there's something gutsy and organic about Nadsat, the slang-filled language that Burgess created for his futuristic urban gang, and something indelible about his murderous, carnal anti-hero, Alex DeLarge.
And then in 1971, Stanley Kubrick went and made a film of it. Applying his own distinctive visual style to Burgess' future dystopia, Kubrick's movie hit the sensibilities of UK cinema-goers like a sledgehammer. Its design had an immediate impact on contemporary culture, with the central image of a trussed-up Malcolm McDowell, his eyes prised open, one of the most arresting in 20th century cinema.
A simple tale at heart, A Clockwork Orange introduces Alex and his little coterie of droogs, a violently...
- 5/25/2011
- Den of Geek
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